Self-talk is the way a person speaks to themselves inside. Change your self-talk.
Most people speak to themselves in terms they would never use to anybody else. Self-talk in the second person, addressing yourself by name, works better than the first.
1nounself-talkThe way a person speaks to themselves inside.
“His self-talk before a match was brutal and unhelpful.”
self-talk is a habit.
Middle English
self
English
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English, today
self-talk
From self- + talk. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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