Checkpoint: Inner Critic Awareness

By Better Wise

Quiz

According to the lesson, what is a belief about yourself?
- A memory that has been proven accurate
- A permanent personality trait
- A conclusion drawn from limited information at a particular age
- A fixed fact about who you are
Which type of message often does the heaviest teaching about self-image, according to the lesson?
- Stated messages said out loud
- Absorbed messages learned through tone, absence, timing, or routine
- Messages from culture and media only
- Messages from early successes only
What are the three tracing questions used to trace a belief back to its origins?
- What is the evidence, what is the counter-evidence, and what is the conclusion?
- What do I feel, what do I want, and what will I do next?
- Who is to blame, what should I have done, and how do I fix it?
- What happened, what did I conclude about myself, and who or what taught me that?
Why does the negative self-talk loop get stronger each time it runs?
- Because the trigger becomes more frequent over time
- Because feelings are always accurate
- Because the behavior it produces blocks the evidence that would contradict the thought
- Because the inner critic is a permanent part of personality
Which of these is a common trigger family for the inner critic, as listed in the lesson?
- Hunger, thirst, and sleep only
- Only praise and success
- Evaluation, comparison, mistakes, visibility, and rest
- Only major life events like loss or illness
Messages that were never spoken aloud but arrived through tone, absence, or routine are called ____ messages.
The negative self-talk loop runs in this order: trigger, critical thought, feeling, behavior, and then back to the ____.
Choose one recurring belief about yourself and trace it using the three questions: what happened, what did I conclude about myself, and who or what taught me that? Then note whether the belief was ever useful and what it costs now.