Sometimes the voices people hear are not their own and are attributed to a divine source. Or maybe they’re athletes trying to focus or reflect on their game. Perhaps they’re rehearsing answers to a likely job interview question. Some research shows that people often use more inner verbalisation when under pressure. Maybe, you could add more to this list within the comments box below. Saying things such as, “ I’d better get on with this work now” or, “ I’m running late” are common examples. You may be familiar with the term, Internal narration. Many athletes talk to themselves to enhance performance Andy Murray yells at himself during his tennis matches. As an example, Vygotsky described what he referred to as private speech, in which children talk to themselves while carrying out a challenging cognitive task. Not only does it allow us to “rehearse” different scenarios, it enables us to avoid impulsive actions.Īccording to the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, our inner-speech capacity begins as a toddler we learn to integrate the separate systems from thought and language. Whether you call it inner speech, self-talk, or something else, it appears to be an essential part of our daily life. We, unknowingly, carry an inner dialogue with us, for most of the time.
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