Hearing Voices

You know that little voice in your head? The one that tells you, "this is a bad idea" as you are actively doing something that will inevitably turn out to be, well, a bad idea?

We would all be so much better off if we could just make ourselves listen to that voice before it was too late, and the thing, whatever it was, was done.

I am actually much better at this than I used to be, although there are still moments. Often it will involve responding to an email that my voice is telling me to ignore, at least until I count to ten, or maybe it is getting the last word in when your voice is telling you to just be quiet.

I often see this happening to others as well. Sometimes it is like a car accident. You want to look away, but you can't.

We all want to be thought of as intelligent people who know things, but often it is exactly that ego sentiment that gets us into trouble if we are not listening carefully enough to the voice in our head.