How to Stop Negative Self-Talk (Stoic Method That Works)
On the voice that lives in the house, and the room it cannot enter "The mind free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inaccessible." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 8 (George Long translation) Silence the critic. The tenant Most of us carry a voice that lives in us like a tenant who never pays rent and never leaves. It does not shout, and that is the first thing worth understanding about it. It speaks in the flat tone of a clerk reading from a file: not good enough. Not ready. Not worthy. It speaks on the tram, in the kitchen at midnight, and in the half-second after someone praises us, when it gently corrects the record. What strikes me most is that nobody has ever seen the file. We obey the clerk for thirty years and never once ask to look at the documents. Repetition is not evidence A path across a meadow is made by no one. Someone walks the same line again and again until the grass ...
