The Science of Self Talk Quotes

“A loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“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. Make a small, incremental change today, and it will gather momentum the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that… until you’re surprised at what you’ve accomplished.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“Do unto your future self as you would do unto your present self.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“It’s important to note here that negative emotion (or negative affect) is not necessarily your enemy. It’s how you think about negative emotions that makes them negative.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“value judgments are worse than useless when they’re global judgments of yourself.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“The idea is to base everything on facts, not value judgments.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“Talk to yourself the way you’d talk to someone you love.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“people tend to think of their future selves as if they were entirely different persons from their present self!”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“One study found that healthy teenagers of normal weight who just perceived themselves as overweight were more likely to become obese later in life.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way

“I’ll invest only what I can afford to lose. That would be an acceptable risk for such a big potential payoff.”
― Ian Tuhovsky, The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way