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Chatter

The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

By: Ethan Kross

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In 'Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It', renowned psychology professor, Ethan Kross, takes us on a tour of our own mind, exploring the techniques needed to understand and control our oldest friend and foe: our inner voice.
Where does our inner voice come from? We listen inside the heads of everyday New Yorkers to explore the scientific intricacies of how our mind processes experiences around us.
Rick Ankiel was on his way to becoming a legendary pitcher in Major League Baseball until chatter consumed his ability to play. We learn how negative thought loops can sabotage performance and what skills can help us control it.
'Tracey', who has asked for anonimity due to her long history working in national intelligence, explains how 'zooming out' from her problems helped her quell her negative thought loops.
When experiencing trauma, co-rumination causes a domino effect of negative thoughts in a game where there is a potentially infinite supply of tiles. Former FBI negotiator, Chip Massey, explains the benefits of smashing through chatter when trying to difuse a high stakes crisis.
Our environment can play a huge role in our ability to think clearly and problem solve. We learn from sociological experiments around the country on how harnessing the power of nature can help us.
Research shows that thinking we feel better can lead us to actually feeling better. We explore how placebos can help calm our chatter.
We use our inner voice to talk to ourselves all day long. The tools we've learned in this videobook can help us in moving forward with healthy, productive lives.

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Length: 7 min

In 'Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It', renowned psychology professor, Ethan Kross, takes us on a tour of our own mind, exploring the techniques needed to understand and control our oldest friend and foe: our inner voice.

Length: 4 min

Where does our inner voice come from? We listen inside the heads of everyday New Yorkers to explore the scientific intricacies of how our mind processes experiences around us.

Length: 10 min

Rick Ankiel was on his way to becoming a legendary pitcher in Major League Baseball until chatter consumed his ability to play. We learn how negative thought loops can sabotage performance and what skills can help us control it.

Length: 9 min

'Tracey', who has asked for anonimity due to her long history working in national intelligence, explains how 'zooming out' from her problems helped her quell her negative thought loops.

Length: 7 min

When experiencing trauma, co-rumination causes a domino effect of negative thoughts in a game where there is a potentially infinite supply of tiles. Former FBI negotiator, Chip Massey, explains the benefits of smashing through chatter when trying to difuse a high stakes crisis.

Length: 5 min

Our environment can play a huge role in our ability to think clearly and problem solve. We learn from sociological experiments around the country on how harnessing the power of nature can help us.

Length: 5 min

Research shows that thinking we feel better can lead us to actually feeling better. We explore how placebos can help calm our chatter.

Length: 4 min

We use our inner voice to talk to ourselves all day long. The tools we've learned in this videobook can help us in moving forward with healthy, productive lives.

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Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus—you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use? In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy—Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter”—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure. But the good news is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight—in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces. Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.

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Meet the Author

Ethan Kross

Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions and relationships.Ethan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After earning his PhD in Psychology from Columbia University, Ethan completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.Ethan’s research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time.Ethan is the author the National Bestseller CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, which was chosen as one of the best new books of the year by the Washington Post, CNN and USA Today. CHATTER is scheduled to be translated into over 35 languages.

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