The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way (Master Your Self Discipline Book 5)

by Ian Tuhovsky

Self-talk appears to be a function of two things. One is our ability to run cognitive simulations, and the other is our capacity for language. In order to run these simulations in our imagination, we have to project an image of ourselves, as if we were a video game character.

Procrastination is just avoiding tasks that are presently demanding but will give a reward in the distant future, in favor of activities that give a more immediate reward.

I am large. I contain multitudes.