13265: Talking To Yourself: Crazy? Or Crazy Smart?

Raw transcript:

All right, it’s time for me to give you
a hall pass.
Uh, I I’ve been reading all kinds of
things about talking to yourself out
loud when you’re alone and how awesome
it is. So, let’s talk about that. You
know, you and me, not me to myself, in
this episode of the VO Heroes podcast.
You know, I can’t lay my finger on a
specific study or send you a link to uh
a body of research, but probably for
the, you know, 12th or 15th time, I’ve
seen reference by people who are a lot
smarter than I am and a lot more
accomplished than I am talking about the
fact that they talk to themselves all
the time when they’re by themselves.
They they mutter, they putter, they say
things out loud. I do all the time. And
the weirdest, you know, it’s not just
like, hm, what am I going to do next? Or
okay, later today I got to remember to
do this or where did I put my wallet?
You know, no, it’s like, I don’t think
that’s right, like having like a a point
of view on something. Like I say these
things out loud and sometimes I notice
that I’m doing it, sometimes I don’t.
I used to worry about it. I used to
think to myself, h maybe uh you know,
you’re getting older just like everybody
else is. Maybe the old mind is gone.
Maybe you’re you’re losing mental
cognition, you know. Um but no, that’s
not the case. It can be a confidence
builder. Sometimes you say things out
loud, you give them uh words and your
voice and they they make more sense,
they add meaning. Um, sometimes you’re
just kind of working it out out loud and
it works better than working it out in
your head where there’s an awful lot of
other distractions. You can only say one
thing at a time.
But more importantly, there is such a um
an ephemeral body of work that and and
body of experience that says people who
speak out loud to themselves, people who
talk to themselves when they’re alone,
there’s nothing wrong with them. In
fact, it’s a sign of brilliance. And I
want that to be your hall pass if you
find yourself doing it. And I’m not
talking about when you’re learning a
script. I’m talking about when you’re
just like walking around and you’re, you
know, fixing a meal or something and all
of a sudden you start talking about
things or you’re you’re in a process or
whatever. This is normal. It is even um
desirable.
It means you’re better than you even
thought you were.
So my question for you is, do you talk
to yourself?
Do you worry about talking to yourself?
Let me know in the comments below on
vioheres.com. That’s where the
conversation uh with others as well as
with yourself is sane and respectful and
so on. You can hit the like button if
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be thrilled if you do that. And you can
do it while you’re talking to yourself
if you want to. I’m going to hit the
notification bell. Uh, I’m David H.
Lawrence the 17th. I thank you so much
for watching and for for listening. I’m
gonna go back to talking to myself and
I’ll see you in the next episode of the
VO Heroes podcast.

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