Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser

Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by will_pseudonym on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:53PM (#20670075)

Definitely agree. A couple of mental models I sometimes adopt to look at my situation more objectively:

* Thinking about what I would do as a parent if my child was in the same situation as I am

* View myself as a video game character (in the 3rd person, looking from above), and thinking about what I would do if I was controlling this character in a game with the same rules as life

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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by lifeisstillgood on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:57PM (#20670809)

Those are fantastic little self-hacks - thank you for sharing.

Currently looking down on myself and my advice to my games avatar is stop using HN and go to bed.

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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by reachtarunhere on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:32AM (#20673270)

I do a slightly different version of it. Where I imagine how someone I deeply admire would advise me in this situation. This kind of detachment allows me to say hard stuff to myself.

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Re:Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser by brokenmachine on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:38PM (#20681313)

I'm pretty reckless in video games...

Still, both are good ways to reframe things though.

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