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May 17, 2024 19 mins
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(00:00):
Do you have an inner voice?Yeah? Why do you say it like
that? I feel like that's doesn'teverybody tell me what your inner voice is,
not what it's saying, but tellme what your inner voice is,
just so we're all like what itsounds like. I never really thought about
what it sounds like. No,no, but just like when, what

(00:21):
is your definition of having an innervoice? Like second guessing something or okay,
like but it's not always second guessing? Can I help you? Like
listening to me? That's like listeningto your gut? Do you have an
inner voice? I believe I dodefine your inner voice? I walk through.

(00:43):
The most common example that comes tomind is walking through potential scenarios.
Okay, yeah, sure, soit's sort of that like it may only
be for a flash, but it'sthat moment before I act, I'm telling
myself what could should and maybe happen? Right, And it could be it

(01:07):
could be several scenarios. It couldbe it could be you could catastrophy something
all the way up to giganticize something. Would it be easier to sum it
up by saying and agree or disagree? If you disagree, that's fine,
Krista. Do you have an innervoice, Oh god, what the what
did she say? Nothing? Shemade of also has a device ended a

(01:36):
running monologue in your head where youkind of talk to yourself. And it
could be second guessing at times whereit's like, oh, maybe I should
have done this, or am IAm I doing the right thing? It
could be I'm getting ready to dosomething, what are what is this scenario?

(02:00):
It could be I'm now, I'mjust now. I'm just making up
scenarios. Right, I have ameeting coming up with my manager. Let
me go through in my head whatI want to say. But it's an
ongoing and it doesn't mean it's NonStopor perpetual, but it's an ongoing monologue
in your head. And when Ithe reason I say monologue, you're not
discussing it with anybody. It's yourinner voice. You're talking to yourself,

(02:23):
just not out loud. Yeah,I mean listen. There may be some
people that mumble like that's something,yeah, but that's not inner the No,
no, it's not. But it'san inner conversation taking place in your
head. I do review and recapthings that have happened and decisions that have
been made. So yes, initiallyI thought of just previewing, but I

(02:45):
definitely review as well. Yeah,sure, I think most people would.
You may walk out of a Youmay walk out of a if you were,
if you were, if you ifif you were at that the hockey
game last night. It all comesback to hockey and Chris Chrider scored three
goals. You may walk out nothaving a conversation with anybody, but on
the right home in your head,going I just saw Chris Chrider score three

(03:06):
goals in the third period. Idon't know that I'll ever see something like
that again. That was amazing.But that's a conversation you're having in your
head. So everybody got it right? Good because I was thinking, I
don't want to disappoint him. Perfect. That's no, that's also perfect.
I'd like to talk to Kristin fora second, who curled her lip like,

(03:28):
oh can anybody else smell this?What? Hi? Kristin? Good
morning? Do you have an innervoice? I don't. I don't know.
How do you not know? Imean if I think stuff I say
it, does that make am Isaying? Am I doing this right?

(03:51):
I'm going to tell you I don'tbelieve that because I don't believe you say
everything you think. Uh oh whatnow? No, Like, for example,
if you were if you were ifyou were driving to Ohio to go
see your mom, right, andyou were in the car by yourself,

(04:11):
and you had a thought as youwere passing a field or something like,
oh, this makes me think ofwhatever, or oh I should be talking
to yourself. I need to becareful it's raining a little bit or whatever.
You you don't just say that outloud, You're just thinking it.
Correct. Oh, I mean Italk to myself in the car. So
like if I see that, I'mlike, oh man, there's a cop

(04:31):
coming up. I got to slowdown. I say that out loud.
I don't just think like I sayit. You say everything you think out
loud. Yes, Mike's on andoff. Yah. So that's why maybe
she is not sure if she hasan InterVoice. Yeah, I don't.
I don't know. Uh oh whatnow? If you if you're trying to

(04:57):
think of something in your head,like for example, let's say, who's
somebody that you might have a meetingwith Aaron. You're gonna go talk to
Aaron about something? Right? ProbablyDad ass oh head golf, it's the
nickname for his butt. If youif you think in your head, I
have a meeting today. Here's whatI want to say. Do you think

(05:20):
of what you might be saying tohim. I'll write it down or I'll
go to him about something, andthen it turns into more questions. But
I'm always talking aloud, like,so I go with one question. Okay,
that's fine, let me get letme go to Diane for a second.
Do you think in words or picturesboth? Maybe? I don't know.

(05:46):
Sometimes if you're if you're playing outa possible scenario in your in your
head, isn't that almost like avideo? No, I don't think in
pictures. I'm a word person.I believe. If you if you thought
like, oh, I have togo to the store, right, Okay,
you're thinking out you're thinking to yourself. Okay, you're not talking to
your windshield. That's the crazy personover there. You're going You're going to

(06:12):
Target, and you're like, oh, I have to get I always Actually
that's something I say out loud becauseI'm always forgetting those things right. Okay,
but let you're thinking it, right, I have to go to Target.
I have to get deodorant, socks, and a bra. Do you
think the word socks or do youthink the picture socks word? Okay,

(06:34):
yeah, I'm saying I have to. I'll say it as I'm writing it
down. I say it aloud,I don't say it. I believe you.
I believe you. So it usedto be believed this is this is
crazy. It used to be believedthat an inner voice, an inner monologue,
was just part of being human,that everybody had it. Everybody had

(06:58):
an inner voice that either talked tothem or you used as a rehearsal,
a reflection, a look ahead,but that you were, that the body
was. And when I say constantly, I don't mean without stop, but
is always in motion of talking toyourself. Ten percent of people don't have

(07:20):
an inner voice. Kresten, You'rein good company. Ten percent of people
do not have that. Is thatgood or bad? You tell me,
they said. At times it couldbe a problem, like for example,
remembering remembering things could be a problembecause if you don't act on it with

(07:41):
an inner voice, inner voice,I could be on the way here like
for example, I knew on theway in this morning, when I was
thinking about hockey, I knew thatthere was a chance it would be Zach
Peres's last could be Zach Persei's lastgame. So a couple of times on
my ride in, I was like, Oh, don't forget Zach Parzi,
don't forget Zach Parzi. Don't forgetZach Paris. I'm telling that to myself.
But if you have no inner voice, you don't remember. Remembering could

(08:05):
be harder. If you don't havean inner voice, or if you are
a picture person and not a wordperson, it's hard to remember all the
pictures. Okay? Now is Kristinover there looking back upon? Right now?

(08:26):
Kristin is using her inner voice becauseshe hates me but doesn't want to
say it out loud. No,I really don't be well she hadn't told
Mike yet, No, does shenow look back? Is this the first
you've ever heard that this may besomething you don't have? Yes? Okay,
so are you now thinking back?You think everybody is like you and

(08:48):
just doesn't think? Stop? Ithink? But other than his example was
memory problems. But are there somethingthat you immediately are like, Oh my
god, is that tied to mylack of inner voice? The thing,

(09:09):
and I don't want to put youon the spot, but the thing that
you're very proud of and celebrate attimes. Is that you love confrontation?
Now someone like me you hate it? Is there a word stronger than the
h one? And that's because Iin my head am running through with this

(09:30):
monologue all that can arise from confrontation. But you don't even seem to think.
You just act. And we've justdiscovered it's true. She's not thinking
right by the way, I don'tthink, and I'm going to dovetail that
I don't think Kristin likes confrontation.I just think, Kristin, if you
really don't have an inner voice,whether or not you like or dislike confrontation

(09:56):
doesn't matter, because if you thinkit, like Tyler's thinking about confrontation is
like, oh my tails between mylegs. I just scared, pissed myself,
like whatever it's going to be ofhating confrontation, there is no decision
of whether to hate or like confrontation. It's just I have to say it.
I don't think well that you don'tthink. You don't run through that
scenario in your head, so itmay not be a like or dislike.

(10:20):
It's just it has to come out. I'm thinking it for confrontation for like
specific incidents or topics or whatever.I'll think it and have to write it
down so that I know I don'toverreact and I get out what I want
to say, right. I needto say right because you thought it,
it has to come out. Yes, Christen has no inner voice. It

(10:41):
really does. Seek Kristen has noinner voice. And don't worry, You're
not alone. Ten percent of thepopulation. The I always just assumed everybody
has an inner voice. Yeah,well, by the way, so do
science. For generations thought everybody hasan inner voice. Christen has no inner
voice. So what is it thatyou're well nothing, No, I mean

(11:03):
I don't. It means that thereare I mean, number one, I
think you run the risk of puttingyourself into I don't want to say trouble,
but you may not be able toreflect on something or go through scenarios
in your head, or talk yourway through something and maybe pick the best
road at times or that. Bythe way, there was also people that

(11:24):
go, I give you credit.There is no like, oh, let
me figure out how to sugarcoat thisor whatever. It's just gonna come out.
So there are some positives to itas well. But memory they say,
is remembering things they say is oneof the problems that come with having
no inner voice. Sure mine isquiet. Also, I guess that's the

(11:46):
other thing. Like your mind justdoesn't do anything if you're not talking it
out. It's like crickets. Ifill up. Yeah, you educate me
every day and fill it. Thankyou, thank you, thank you,
Kristin. Absolutely just blurt that out, say it out loud, all right,
very good, thank you, Kristen. So when like also, I
can't imagine thinking in pictures, butlet's say so when Kristen hears and I

(12:09):
don't know if she's listened to allof Tortured Poet's Apartment, but when she
hears in Guilty of Sin the linethere's no such thing as bad thoughts,
only your actions talk. Does shesit there aloud and say, what are
thoughts? I'm all action baby,No, no, no, but but
there are thoughts. There are thoughts. You inter no, no, but

(12:33):
you still have to think. I'mgoing to cross the street. But she
just doesn't have the internal monologue ofshould I go to the crosswalk or do
I just jaywalk? I'm good atcrossing streets. Like that doesn't happen I've
seen her. She's a jay walker. I see it in the morning the
But it's just the thought of whatI have to do? Is there the

(12:56):
monologue about it is not. Also, if she does find herself having to
write it down or speak it,that's when she might realize that action may
not be the best. Isn't thatcrazy? Though? Ten percent of people
don't have an inner voice, andit is something that everybody assumes everybody has.

(13:22):
And again, and I want tobe clear because it's the definition is
different for a lot of people.It's not just second guessing yourself. It
literally is a running monologue. Andpart of it could be second guessing yourself
talking yourself out of something, talkingyourself into something, go back to Tyler's
hating confrontation, talking himself out ofmaybe addressing something because of what the possible

(13:48):
reaction to it could be. Butin all of your scenarios, I was
sort of, let me tell you, the word I'm thinking of is that
scared pus. But maybe I couldoverreact like Kristen talked about and and b
too, I don't say it withthis hand motion. That's it's as closeness.

(14:15):
You can get the fet position well, seated. That's like a baby
holding the umbilical cord while still inyou to row. Please don't burth me.
Wait, you made fun of Christenfor something, and maybe you have
an answer for this, So well, now we have a whole new thing
to make fun of Christen for.But you joked at her inner voice before
we found out she has none andher mind is quiet. You said it

(14:39):
talks like her with her dental device. Right, is everyone's I would assume
this too, and it's not safeanymore to make assumptions during this discussion.
Is everyone's inner voice heard kind ofjust as they perceived their regular voices?

(15:00):
Like I don't attach any sort ofcharacter to my voice. My inner voice
to me? Is your voice?Is my voice? Exactly? Yeah?
Do some people have an inner voicethat I'm not talking about people who are
your voice is the ways lady,I'm not talking about like you know,
the hero in my head, likeyou know Andy Orton style. I'm just
saying, Oh, I went withmultiple Meredith, there, I went with

(15:24):
one that's fake. No. No, But you're saying, is your inner
voice do you hear a voice attachedto it? Like of those ninety percent
of people who I have this innerdialogue, inner monologue, inner voice.
Is it just an internal version ofthem or is it something else? That's

(15:48):
a good question. I don't knowthat I've ever let me think about that.
I don't know that I've ever triedto attach a sound to it.
But I would have assume it's myown voice. I'm not reprimanding myself.
It's not like I'm my mother yellingat me about something. I think I'm
my own voice, are you?I think I am too. I am

(16:11):
attaching sound to it. It's inmy head, but I'm attaching sound to
it. So when you think yourthoughts, your inner voice, you you
internally hear them. Oh, Ithink I just think them. So you
just see the words. No,it's not visual. I hear them.
I hear them, but not withsound. Why do you hear it?

(16:33):
Like I'm having a conversation with myself. What now, But I'm not hearing
myself, Like right now, Ican hear my This is good for radio?
No, no, no, rightnow, I can hear myself right
like I'm talking into this and I'mhearing it in my in my microphone,
in my headphones. If I takeoff my headphones, I'm still hearing my

(16:57):
voice in my ears right now.Maybe I'm more in tune with it because
of my given profession that I wasborn into the But if I'm in a
legacy act, no, but itjust it's what I didn't know what to
say. Yeah, it's God's gift. The But if I'm thinking something,

(17:18):
I don't hear myself. But Ithink it's because I'm so in tune with
hearing myself. Like people will golike, oh, when I hear myself
on a recording, it doesn't soundlike me. I sound like me all
the time because I hear myself allday. But like, like right now,
I'm doing trained, I'm multitasking now, so I'm probably not doing either.
You're not doing any well, rightyou know what Christian's doing right now?

(17:38):
Oh? I wish he'd shut up. That's funny. Wait, so
you're doing it right now? Yeah, And I'm hearing essentially what is an
echo of my normal voice? Doyou hear your own voice? Yes,

(18:00):
you hear your own voice. Idon't hear a voice, but I hear
Chris did you may be part ofthat ten percent, but I hear I
know what I'm saying to myself.I don't hear it. Okay, I
listen to it because I heed myown advice. You've confused, Kristen.
She's like, oh, you're weird, but thank god, there's nothing in

(18:22):
there like clouding it as it comesinto the brain. Here comes a tumbleweed.
No, does that make sense atall what I'm saying for me?
No? Yeah, when you talkto yourself, you hear yourself, like
when you talk now into this,you hear it here? Yes, I
don't, because I was asking ifit's just not you you're telling me,
Oh, yes, nobody. No, but I hear what I'm thinking,

(18:45):
but not with sound. I'm likea deaf person. Okay, No,
is that why? Well, nowI don't know if I'm explaining. I
want to change it up and Iwant to hear a different voice when when
I'm hearing. When they made RogerFederer available on ways, yeah, no,
something like that, like like likelike hot Australian guy. That's what

(19:07):
the kids switched to Alexa to.Yes, I hate it. Why because
when I call for her to turnon lights or to give me the temperature,
and you know, I'm one ofthose people that thanks the device,
he just he's not. Alexa.Thank you, Alexa, You're welcome.
Yeah. It drys me nuts.
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