These techniques are discussed in sports psychology, especially in "Preshot routine", "Targeting", "Relaxation", "Imagination", and "positive self-talking".

这些技巧将以运动心理学的角度加以讨论。尤其是，预击流程、目标设定、放松、想像及正面的自我对谈。

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Self-talking starts early, beginning as crib speech for the fun of it and becoming toddlers' repetition of rules they're learning to live by, researchers say.

研究人员说，自言自语从人们很小的时候就开始了，最初是好玩的牙牙学语，而后又成了蹒跚学步时口中重复的“操作要领”。

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It's very self-centred to think that people are talking about you.

你认为人们都在谈论你，那是过于以自我为中心了。

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What he means, for instance, in this case is well, talking to yourself is self-reinforcing or giving bad news to an enemy is reinforcing because it makes your enemy feel bad.

比如在这个例子中，他的意思其实是，自言自语是种自我强化行为,而向敌人散布坏消息也是一种强化,因为这样做可以使敌人感到不快。

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He's gone from talking about self-deportation to saying there will be no massive rounding up and deportations of undocumented people.

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Will it be self-fulfilling or are we talking major contrarian signal?

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Of course at bottom, we are talking about national interests and self-interest.

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