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What to Say When You Talk to Yourself - Updated
by Shad Helmstetter
First of all, this book is an advertisement for his self talk app.
Second of all the app and the book are not Terrible. As most motivational/productivity guru type things are generally based on good ideas.
Third of all, the author is not a “Doctor”. His degree was from a diploma by mail school in the 80s. He does not have nor has he ever had a license to practice psychology. A PHD in “motivational psychology” is not a thing.
I listened to the audiobook trying to find some good practices on positive self talk. The audiobook is about 5 hours long and he doesn’t actually start teaching you “what to say when you talk to yourself” until about 3 and a half hours in. And even then it is pretty light and it always comes back to pushing you to listening to his $20/month self talk app, which are just the recordings he used to sell back in the 80s on his infomercials.
There is a 30 day trial for the app so I’ve been giving it a go and the audio there is not bad. In conjunction with my therapy I’ve found it good and challenging to my own self talk.
There are principles in this book and app that are good. But they aren’t fleshed out and they tend to over state the results they can bring. Changing your negative self talk can take work, more work than just listening to some audio tracks for 15 minutes a day. Sometimes it requires therapy. Sometimes it even requires the support of medication.
I would never recommend this book to anyone but I am on the look out for a book that does something similar to this in dealing with self talk in such a direct way.
Second of all the app and the book are not Terrible. As most motivational/productivity guru type things are generally based on good ideas.
Third of all, the author is not a “Doctor”. His degree was from a diploma by mail school in the 80s. He does not have nor has he ever had a license to practice psychology. A PHD in “motivational psychology” is not a thing.
I listened to the audiobook trying to find some good practices on positive self talk. The audiobook is about 5 hours long and he doesn’t actually start teaching you “what to say when you talk to yourself” until about 3 and a half hours in. And even then it is pretty light and it always comes back to pushing you to listening to his $20/month self talk app, which are just the recordings he used to sell back in the 80s on his infomercials.
There is a 30 day trial for the app so I’ve been giving it a go and the audio there is not bad. In conjunction with my therapy I’ve found it good and challenging to my own self talk.
There are principles in this book and app that are good. But they aren’t fleshed out and they tend to over state the results they can bring. Changing your negative self talk can take work, more work than just listening to some audio tracks for 15 minutes a day. Sometimes it requires therapy. Sometimes it even requires the support of medication.
I would never recommend this book to anyone but I am on the look out for a book that does something similar to this in dealing with self talk in such a direct way.