Meridian Magazine - What You Say When You Talk to Yourself

Meridian Magazine - What You Say When You Talk to Yourself
Update:


I'm adding this excerpt from the article, which explains why we get frustrated with the world around us at times.

Stephen R. Covey uses the analogy of a map of reality to answer that question.  Since your first breath, you have been creating a map of reality and your response to it. With limited perception and understanding, however, you—and all of us—got some things somewhat right and some things wrong.  You have been using that map for years to maintain perspective and a sense of direction.  You have expanded it over time and altered some parts when they have been found to be wanting.  Some whole regions of the map may have come to seem completely inadequate.

However if reality, as God sees it, is, for example, a map of Chicago, and you are trying to find your way with a map of Denver,  you will continually run into dead ends and blind alleys. Something just doesn’t match up. This map of Denver, which you hold such faith in, seems to lead you into continual frustration.

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I'm also reading "You Get to Say" by Randy J. Gibbs on the topic.