# Professor Dolly Chugh explains the benefits of developing a growth-oriented inner voice, from her book, "The Person You Mean to Be"

1 Faculty News March 4, 2019 Psychology Today ![Psychology Today logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031090.jpg?itok=H_RURAAM)>

Excerpt from [Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201903/silencing-your-inner-critic) -- "Instead of 'good' or 'bad,' Chugh suggests, we need to start thinking of ourselves as good-ish, a term she introduces in her book, The Person You Mean to Be. Good-ish embraces the idea that the self is error-prone and conflicted, yet strives to be better. It's a rejection of a fixed 'good person' image—like the one the inner critic pushes us toward—in favor of the idea that we are a work in progress."

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