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# David Roth on Hearing Yourself Over The Noise
- URL: https://www.vjarmy.com/hearing-yourself-over-the-noise/
- Published: 2019-10-31T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-11T16:49:15.000Z
- Description: "One of the painful things that comes with hearing your own voice for a living [...] is that you wind up editing yourself very harshly even when you are not really editing."
- Author: Dan Dickinson
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> It’s hard to know what to say, here, because none of it beyond “thank you and goodbye” is necessary. One of the painful things that comes with hearing your own voice for a living—in your head as you write and edit, on podcasts, in little videos that start playing on a website either with or without your consent—is that you wind up editing yourself very harshly even when you are not really editing. Thoughts or feelings that you have, very much for real, scan as mawkish or hackish or unworthy, which in point of fact they would be were they to appear in a blog post or some conversational bit, but which also doesn’t matter, because those things are what you are thinking or feeling. I am doing a lot of that. It’s exhausting. It is tough to hear myself over the noise of it.