> The presenter mentioned that our self-talk is nearly always critical I don't doubt that this is the case for (at least) some people. But my internal monolog

> The presenter mentioned that our self-talk is nearly always critical I don't doubt that this is the case for (at least) some people. But my internal monologue is only occasionally critical (and only occasionally congratulatory). My internal monologue is instead almost always neutral - task-focused, observational, problem-solving... (And fwiw, my childhood wasn't anywhere close to ideal, though it was far from terrible. Average isn't the right word. But I don't know what is the right word.) Even if you restrict the subset of thinking just to self-evaluation, my focus is: - 20% on where I am - 70% on how to get where I want to be - 10% on how I got where I am (e.g. self-criticism) Again, I understand that I'm an anecdote in a sea of data. But the "nearly always critical" has my hackles up