Do you talk to yourself? Is it a silent inter-narrative or do you talk aloud? What form of address to you use to yourself?
When I'm mad at myself I sometimes address myself as Colin. But, I sense that when LeBron speaks to himself as LeBron, it's more affirming.
I talk aloud quite a bit. A hangover, I think, from growing up as an only child.
The Spanish and Argentine novelist Andres Neumann has a new work, "Talking to Ourselves," in which he explores the solitary inner narrative that each of us conducts either silently, aloud, or writing a diary.
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