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# Recordings
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/recordings/
- Published: 2025-10-21T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-27T21:22:45.000Z
- Description: What if your thoughts weren't your thoughts at all? 😯
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Thought realisation, Writing, Trauma, Quick insight, Psychology, Metaphor, MECHANICS, Impostor syndrome

It’s testament to the infinite creative power of life energy that:

1. Every now and again I come across someone who says what I’m saying so clearly—but in a different way—that it blows my mind
2. I have been writing these Daily Reminders every single day for 17 months now, and still have way more ideas than I could ever write about.

Someone posted this on social media and I just STOPPED.

Why the hell hadn’t I expressed it this way before?!

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2026/04/Voices-are-recordings-600w-750h.JPG-1.jpg)](https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/)

from [Scott D Clary](https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/)

> ‘Recordings’!!!

😲

How perfect is that?!

All the judgements we have—about others; about our selves—and opinions we hold, they’re just stuff that’s accumulated in our Thought System 📦 from others. Recordings!

Even our conceptual notion of ‘who we are’ is created from these opinions. As David Edwards puts it, at the very beginning of his lovely [*Short Book About Ego*](https://www.medialens.org/bookshop/a-short-book-about-ego/?ref=gilespcroft.com):

> *“We’re told we’re annoying, adorable, stupid, unlovable; that we’re a show-off, that we’re not academic, that we’ve got a nice voice, that we’re a fast runner, dance beautifully, and so on.* 

> *“The reflections collect as a nebulous mass in which we perceive an indistinct outline of an individual, a personality, a self – ‘me’. This is the ego: the mind identifying itself with impressions from the outside world.”*

Recordings!

But you know the even stranger thing?

Even though it hit me like a tram when I first read it… I keep forgetting it.

(Maybe because it’s someone else’s insight and metaphor, not mine, I dunno 🤷🏻‍♂️)

I keep thinking, *Now what’s that really amazing way of describing the Giles Ego Construct* 📦 *that I read the other day?*

\[Scrabbles around on phone\]

Oh yes, that’s it – ‘Recordings’! Brilliant!

Anyway, I’ve committed it to a Daily Reminder now, so who knows how well it will stick.

It’s good though, isn’t it?

📼

****Recordings.**

For my benefit, and for yours; for everyone who wants to think less and live more, the Reminders will continue to arrive Daily.

I think we all need it.

💝

Giles

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