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Two Modes Feeding Your Inner Critic - And What a Monk and a CEO Did About It
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- Magnetic Communication
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- Jun 9, 2026
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- 625
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail How to quiet your inner critic isn't about positive thinking or pushing the voice down. It starts with understanding the two modes that keep feeding it — and most of us have been running both without knowing it. Your brain cycles between craving — the reaching, the not yet, not enough, not there — and aversion — the avoiding, the deciding not to look at the thing directly. A monk spent a lifetime naming them. A CEO discovered the same truth with two questions he does every mo...