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How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself: The Neuroscience

  1. Hook slide — How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself: The Neuroscience

    How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself: The Neuroscience

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  2. The insight — The inner critic as prediction error correction system, the default mode network's role in self-referential ruminatio...

    The inner critic as prediction error correction system, the default mode network's role in self-referential ruminatio...

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  3. The truth — How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself: The Neuroscience

    The truth about how to stop being so hard on yourself: the neuroscience

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  4. Key takeaway — The inner critic as prediction error correction system, the default mode network's role in self-referential ruminatio...

    The inner critic as prediction error correction system, the default mode network's role in self-referential ruminatio...

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The inner critic as prediction error correction system, the default mode network's role in self-referential rumination, and the Kristin Neff self-compassion research that explains what actually changes it.

 

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