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There’s a quality that’s almost gone from adults under fifty and still fully intact in adults who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s — it isn’t strength of character, it’s the residue of a specific childhood condition: nobody was coming, so a voice had to grow that could stand in for the adult who didn’t
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It isn’t grit, or character, or any of the other words we throw at it.
He had a voice in his head that could act as the adult in the room.
What the voice actually isPsychologists have a boring name for the neighbourhood this lives in: locus of control.
Private speech drops underground and becomes inner speech, the silent commentary you are running right now while you read this.
It puts air between you and the panic, which is roughly the job a good adult does.