The Inner Voice and Self-Talk

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The voice in your head is not a neutral narrator. It has a style, it can loop or reframe, it may be a recent arrival in human history, and it keeps a running record of whether your word can be trusted. Five short lessons on listening to it.

Metacognition and the Thought You Are Noticing

Published 2026-07-21 · Watch the short

The short opens with a simple split. There is the thought itself, such as “I’m going to fail this”, and there is a separate mental act of watching that thought and asking whether it is true or just loud. Psychologist John Flavell named this second layer metacognition in 1979, meaning thinking about your own thinking.

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The Inner Voice and Self-Talk

Metacognition and the Thought You Are Noticing