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Your inner critic is always wrong

Craft → Decision Making

Defining
Every single time the voice in your head is wrong. That critical voice in your head. To be specific, I'm talking about the voice in your head that is critical and repeats. There's the voice that says the same thing over and over again. You got to work out more, you got to work out more, you got to work out more. Whatever that is, it's always wrong.
Supporting

"That way" refers to breathing patterns that activate the nervous system, such as rapid, shallow breathing through the mouth into the upper chest.

We have a tendency to kind of confabulate or make up stories that match the state that we are in. And so that's kind of what happens when we're breathing in that way.
Supporting
If you are avoiding feeling a certain way, let's say, that they don't enjoy feeling conflict or anger, then they will make decisions subconsciously to avoid feeling that way. And it becomes a huge bias and a huge problem because people make decisions because they're afraid of feeling a certain way.
Supporting

Hudson, an executive coach, uses "voice in the head" to refer to your inner critic or negative self-talk that undermines confidence and performance.

I think the best way to work with the voice in the head is to pick an experiment every day and respond to the voice in the head in a new way every day. One of my favorite responses is, 'Oh, I see that you're really scared. Don't worry. I'm right here with you. I got you.'

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