For example, you’re running late for work. Do you think:

“Ok, [ your first name,] better get moving.”

Or

“Ok, Self, better get going.”

Or

“Ok, Me, gotta run.”

Or

“Ok, We better hurry up.”

Or

“Ok, You have to leave now.”

Or

“Ok, I need to go.”

Or something else?

I think I usually call myself by my first name, or else I use “you,” almost as if there’s another self in there that I’m talking to. It’s not something I normally think about, but I heard my girlfriend muttering to herself using the “me” to talk about herself (“Ok, me, better go now.”) which I know I never use. I think the only time I use to word I is when I’m communicating to other people, such as right now, but never when I’m talking to myself.

Topics: psychology, communication, talking, thinking, thoughts