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

If you break a negative feedback loop by giving it a positive input instead, it will spin into a positive feedback loop. That creates a kind of snowball effect, which takes on a life of its own.

Dysfunctional self-talk tells a story. It's the wrong kind of story, a story in which you’re passive and helpless.

learned helplessness.

Whenever you catch yourself in negative self-talk, stop and write it down.

Your mind is an instrument. Be like a musician and tune it often and well.