Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Inner voice
I've always had that little voice in my head so it is very difficult to think of a life where I am free from it. This voice is very helpful but it does cause a lot of problems for me so I think that it would actually be pretty great to not have it there anymore. Without a constant inner monologue you would be given the opportunity to focus on so many more things then before. You could become a better listener and really be able to connect with people on a deeper level then most are used to because of the lack of distractions in your head. This would also help being less distracted while doing tedious or mundane things that require concentration like homework, reading, falling asleep, or paying attention during a particularly boring lecture because your mind wouldn't be able to wander. Another reason why I think getting rid of the little voice would be good is something that I have learned to call the chatter in your head. This is any negative or discouraging thoughts in your head telling you that you’re going to fail, not good enough, or things like why bother trying when we all know nothing is going to go right or as planned. I usually don't let it happen but sometimes I do let these negative thoughts get to me and stop me from what I was trying to accomplish. If I didn't have this chatter filling my head with negative thoughts and telling me I'm destined for failure then life would be so much more easy and simple.
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with Emily in saying I would have to disagree with you because I believe if you just had silence in your head, would you really be thinking? I think the way your chatter thinks negatively would help you grow as you decide to ignore and essentially prove yourself wrong by doing better than your subconscious mind would think you might do. I have never met a person without doubt meaning everyone has those negative thoughts, chatter. The choice to focus on those instead of the positive thoughts is your own choice in itself. Agreeing with the talk show, without words/voices/thinking in your head are you really thinking at all? Are you putting any meaning to an object if you do not have a name for it? I do not think so because without a name, how can you describe it or connect with it or have any attachment with the object at all? That chatter, well your words, I believe are important as you would not be who you are without them I do not think.
ReplyDeleteI would have to disagree. The inner voice in our mind is what helps us think and make important decisions. Yes, we wouldn't have any negative thoughts that keep us down but we wouldn't we wouldn't have any thoughts at all because we wouldn't have the ability to think to ourselves. We would be just...there, and not being able to put thoughts together such as what Jill Taylor was talking about by when she was trying to put the President and the United states together in her head. Without the voice in our head and the ability to think we would lack language to communicate with other people. There would also be no creativity and no one would be able to ever form an opinion of their own because there would be nothing there to tell us what we individually like or don't like. Maybe every once in a while if our inner voice was gone when we're trying to relax and get some peace and quiet it would be nice to ignore our thoughts but not all the time.
ReplyDeleteI disagree there are always negative thoughts circulating around in the world, but, because of that little voice inside our head we have the ability to just push the negatives away and only focus on the positives. If there was truly no language or little voice for everyone to deal with there would be no way for us to think, if everyone could truly be as Jill Taylor then we would never be able to get any work done because we could not communicate. At best our communication process would take an excessively long time to accomplish such as the six Mexican men that Susan Schaller observed miming an event to their friends, in an attempt to tell a story about a bull fight. Language and communication are already misconstrued constantly, having to deal with interpreting a message from someone merely from something such as miming in my opinion would make it even harder for someone to interpret correctly.
ReplyDeleteI disagree because a life without inner thought would be very difficult. Having that little voice inside your head is soothing because you can think of what you want to say before you say it. Dr. Jill Taylor had a stroke and lost her brain chatter and said it was like someone had turned it off with a remote. After her multiple brain surgeries, she lost all of her language and had pure silence in her head. That voice in our heads represents us because we think about emotions and how things make us feel and we act upon those thoughts. Thoughts are a prime example of what is actually going on up in our heads. As Dr. Jill Taylor said, you wake up and think “Aw man the sun is shining” but without that voice, you just experience it. She couldn’t even think about how beautiful the sunrise really was. We can almost read a person and get a better understanding of how they are just by listening to their thoughts. If they don’t have a little voice in their head it’s almost like they are missing part of who they really are. That little voice inside our heads, to me, is like our personalities. Without that voice I feel like we, as humans, aren’t as interesting or amusing. How would you be able to tell someone you love them if you couldn’t think about what they meant to you or how they make you feel? If we didn’t have the voices in our heads, we couldn’t speak the deep, true, personal thoughts that we really feel. If I had silence in my head I think life wouldn’t be as fun, personal, or all around amazing.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you regarding that inner voice. From listening to the podcast Susan is trying to communicate even if it through facial expressions. Regarding the blog I must say that I disagree with your view on someone's inner voice. She states, “ Oh I know,” you know with my facial expression.”I believe that our inner voice does so much for us in our lives. If we happen to face a difficult moment our inner voice encourages us to keep moving forward and weather we believe it or not our expressions can convey a higher meaning. Our inner voice helps us cope with our lives. I don’t think that any of us will ever know what complete silence is and that is a good thing. That voice is there to help us make decisions and set direction in our everyday actions. Yes you become a better listener but not by taking that inner voice that helps you make choices whether bad or good that is on the person.
I disagree his voice going away would be terrible because you would have, no censorship, no time to think about our actions, and eventually I think I would go insane out of the pure silence that is caused by this. The reaction of the man when he first discovered that there was a language to connect everything and it is used to communicate was enough to know that having language is an amazing thing. But there wouldn’t be its up sides, people often fixate on mistakes, what they have done wrong, think of all the times people stay up at night thinking of some of their mistakes. This inner voice likes to highlight what we have done wrong instead of what we could do right. But at the end of the passage we go back to the man and how he would never go back to how things were, and that he cannot even imagine thinking like he once did.
ReplyDeletehat the voice in your head can be beneficial and help someone rationalize their thoughts, but I personally could live without the voice inside my head. The voice in my head tends to be the reason why I’m scared to take risks and holds me back from accomplishing my goals. There has been many moments when I’ve stopped myself from doing something outside of my comfort zone because my mind would only focus on the negative outcomes of the the situation. That voice has become more of a burden than a benefit to me. The saying “think before you speak” is one of the main reasons why I wish I didn’t have that voice inside my head. My mind tends to over analyze anything that I think, so when I try to think before I speak, my mind has trouble trying to figure out what I should say. Whereas if I don’t think it’s much more easier for me to carry on a conversation, because my mind wouldn’t be so focused on what I’m going to say next and I would be able to actually focus on what the other person is actually saying.
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