A powerful and deep conversation with Ethan Kross on the inner critic and how to quiet it. Ethan is the author of Chatter: The Voice in our heads, why it matters and how to harness it. He is one of the world’s leading experts on managing the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.

Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and Anderson Cooper among others. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

Topics covered:

What is the internal voice? What is its purpose?

Why is learning distanced self-talk important?

What are some of the benefits of distanced self-talk?

What differences are there between using first person, second person vs. third person pronouns in self-talk?

How does rumination (dwelling on the negative past) enter into the topic of the inner voice?

What are some of the best tools we can learn to quiet the chatter in our own head?

Chatter is available on amazon.com and other booksellers. It is an international best seller.

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