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Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2689" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7a3mm/why-you-should-talk-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-inner-monologue" target="_blank"><strong>Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person - Vice</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Evidence suggests that there are real benefits of talking to yourself in the third person—in your head, not out loud.</strong></p><p></p><p>According to the Bible, King Solomon, the Israelite king, was an <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon" target="_blank">incredibly wise</a> man. People traveled far and wide just to ask for his advice, including two women who claimed to be the mother of the same baby. Solomon devised a clever way to solve the dispute. </p><p></p><p>Solomon's wisdom, though, only applied to matters external to himself. His own life “was a shambles of bad decisions and uncontrolled passions,” <a href="https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/the-paradoxical-wisdom-of-solomon.html" target="_blank">wrote</a> Wray Herbert in<em> The Association for Psychological Science</em>. “He kept hundreds of pagan wives and concubines, and also loved money and boasted of his riches. He neglected to instruct his only son, who grew up to be an incompetent tyrant. All these sins and misjudgments contributed to the eventual demise of the kingdom.”</p><p></p><p>This is referred to as <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614535400" target="_blank">Solomon's Paradox</a>. Whether the tales of Solomon are rooted in historical fact or not, they describe how we are often more wise when it comes to helping others than we are with ourselves. There's something about the distance between yourself and another that provides the space to assess a situation more objectively, and control your emotions, rather than letting them cloud your thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2689, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7a3mm/why-you-should-talk-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-inner-monologue'][B]Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person - Vice[/B][/URL] [B] Evidence suggests that there are real benefits of talking to yourself in the third person—in your head, not out loud.[/B] According to the Bible, King Solomon, the Israelite king, was an [URL='https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon']incredibly wise[/URL] man. People traveled far and wide just to ask for his advice, including two women who claimed to be the mother of the same baby. Solomon devised a clever way to solve the dispute. Solomon's wisdom, though, only applied to matters external to himself. His own life “was a shambles of bad decisions and uncontrolled passions,” [URL='https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/the-paradoxical-wisdom-of-solomon.html']wrote[/URL] Wray Herbert in[I] The Association for Psychological Science[/I]. “He kept hundreds of pagan wives and concubines, and also loved money and boasted of his riches. He neglected to instruct his only son, who grew up to be an incompetent tyrant. All these sins and misjudgments contributed to the eventual demise of the kingdom.” This is referred to as [URL='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614535400']Solomon's Paradox[/URL]. Whether the tales of Solomon are rooted in historical fact or not, they describe how we are often more wise when it comes to helping others than we are with ourselves. There's something about the distance between yourself and another that provides the space to assess a situation more objectively, and control your emotions, rather than letting them cloud your thinking. [/QUOTE]
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