Do You Take Advice From Your Innerer Schweinehund?

[Sunrising]

The Innerer Schweinhund is a modern German cultural expression which refers to the lazy, procrastinating voice inside your head that you have to overcome to get things done.

I came across this phrase when watching a War film and a German called someone a 'Schweinhund', and I looked up the meaning, and as I expected I found it to be an old -fashioned German swear word, as well as the meaning I'm telling you about.

I thought you might like to know this word, and hopefully you will not listen to your 'Innerer Schweinhund' when it speaks to you, or at least you will know the situation you are involved in.

What is your opinion?

A. To often I listen to my Innerer Schweinhund.

B. I don't listen to my Innerer Schweinhund.

C. I don't have voices in my head.

D. Something else.

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2 mo

Do you have your own word for the voice inside your head telling you to be lazy?

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1 mo

Am I the only person to experience 'inner voices' lol.

Apparently it is completely normal to experience this internal monologue that helps to plan, reason, or replay past conversations.

Phew! I'm pleased Google agrees with me 🤣

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for the new word. I always enjoy expanding my vocabulary!

[OlderAndWiser]

I believe this fits Freud's ideas of id and superego.

[Sunrising]

Hopefully that's good news for me lol, but I'm not a fan of Freud.

[purplepoppy]

Actually it's one of the few German words I can remember from school

[Abbycado]

@Agape93

Schweinhund?

[Sunrising]

Innerer Schweinhund!

[Agape93]

This was a weird post

[Xawyx-2]

I don't have any "voices in my head".

[Xawyx-2]

Thanks for the MHO

[queenofcardio]

I think I refer to it as something else

[strateguy632]

i don't