We all have an inner voice. Sometimes it soothes and encourages us, but often it becomes the harshest critic we’ll ever meet. Recent research from New York University neuroscientists shows that self-criticism lights up the same neural pathways as when someone else is criticising us. In other words, the brain doesn’t distinguish much between an unkind boss and our own inner monologue.

We all have an inner voice. Sometimes it soothes and encourages us, but often it becomes the harshest critic we’ll ever meet. Recent research from New York University neuroscientists shows that self-criticism lights up the same neural pathways as when someone else is criticising us. In other words, the brain doesn’t distinguish much between an unkind boss and our own inner monologue.

We all have an inner voice. Sometimes it soothes and encourages us, but often it becomes the harshest critic we’ll ever meet. Recent research from New York University neuroscientists shows that self-criticism lights up the same neural pathways as when someone else is criticising us. In other words, the brain doesn’t distinguish much between an unkind boss and our own inner monologue.