Quick Spoon: You Are Not Your Thoughts
We often treat our thoughts as facts — but what if they’re just… thoughts?
In this Quick Spoon, Dr. Jill Stoddard explores how creating space from your thinking can change your actions.
Less autopilot. More choice.
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Transcript
QS03 - You are not your thoughts
Jill: [:Speaker 4: Hi there, and welcome to People Soup, quick Spoon, real conversations about work leadership and being human grounded in behavioral science. With practical ideas you can actually use. I'm Ross Macintosh and here's your quick spoon.
Ross: Getting a bit of space between us and those thoughts. And doing things like calling that pesky mind, calling that Sheila, it's a beautiful way of just. giving yourself a little space to breathe.
d write again But Writing is [:Speaker 4: And that's your quick spoon. Sometimes the harder we try to fix our thoughts, the more stock we get. If this gave you something to reflect on, pass it on.
