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Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1363" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser" target="_blank"><strong>Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser - AEON</strong></a></p><p></p><p>We credit Socrates with the insight that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ and that to ‘know thyself’ is the path to true wisdom. But is there a right and a wrong way to go about such self-reflection? </p><p></p><p>Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns around in your head – isn’t the answer. It’s likely to cause you to become stuck in the rut of your own thoughts and immersed in the emotions that might be leading you astray. Certainly, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029215000308" target="_blank">research</a> has shown that people who are prone to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making under pressure, and are at a substantially increased risk of depression.</p><p></p><p>Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favoured by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was coined in 1809 by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin <em>ille</em> meaning ‘he, that’). If I was considering an argument that I’d had with a friend, for instance, I might start by silently thinking to myself: ‘David felt frustrated that…’ The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1363, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser'][B]Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser - AEON[/B][/URL] We credit Socrates with the insight that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ and that to ‘know thyself’ is the path to true wisdom. But is there a right and a wrong way to go about such self-reflection? Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns around in your head – isn’t the answer. It’s likely to cause you to become stuck in the rut of your own thoughts and immersed in the emotions that might be leading you astray. Certainly, [URL='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029215000308']research[/URL] has shown that people who are prone to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making under pressure, and are at a substantially increased risk of depression. Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favoured by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was coined in 1809 by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin [I]ille[/I] meaning ‘he, that’). If I was considering an argument that I’d had with a friend, for instance, I might start by silently thinking to myself: ‘David felt frustrated that…’ The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases. [/QUOTE]
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