- One way to tame self talk is to speak to yourself in second person. Refer to yourself by name to help gain command over your thinking. Often very good advice is talking to yourself like you are advising a friend. ---- "Kross’s bottom line is that our inner voices are powerful tools that must be tamed. He ends his book with several dozen techniques for controlling our chatter. He advises trying “distanced self-talk”: by using “your name and the second-person ‘you’ to refer to yourself,” he writes, you can gain more command over your thinking. You might use your inner voice to pretend that you’re advising a friend about his problems;" - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-should-we-think-about-our-different-styles-of-thinking)