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Why speaking your journal beats typing it

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 18, 2026
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Mohsen Askari describes a daily practice in Psyche that takes about six minutes: speak into voice-to-text about whatever is happening in your inner life. Don’t edit the transcript. Later, read it back as if it belongs to a character in a story — “who is this person today?”

That shift from first person to observer is the…

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