# Two Modes Feeding Your Inner Critic - And What a Monk and a CEO Did About It

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Podcast: [Magnetic Communication](https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnetic-communication-7098408)
Published: 2026-06-09T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://sandygerber.com/podcast/episode-99-how-to-quiet-your-inner-critic/
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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...

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