• Self-talk is the ego grazing on pride wherever it can find it.
• Self-talk is the compulsive pursuit of pride from knowing-better-than.
• Self-talk serves ego pride (ego pleasure) even at the expense of ego shame (ego pain).
• Self-talk is finding excuses to know why things should not be the way that they are (pride).
• Self-talk is finding excuses to know why things should be different from the way that they are (pride).