Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind, a Professor at the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department and Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.

There will be one voice with us throughout our lives, the one that exists inside of our head. So we'd better make friends with it. Improving self-talk and creating a nicer inner-monologue is something that everyone could benefit from and thankfully that's been Ethan's life's work.

Expect to learn why we have an inner voice at all, how our age and gender influences mental chatter, whether it's possible to quieten the mind, the most effective strategies for dealing with negative self-talk, how to be more objective and less lost in thought, the relationship between language and quality of life and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:15 Why Do We Have an Inner Voice?
06:56 Controlling Our Thoughts
16:30 How the Mind is a ‘Beautiful Mess’
26:15 Inner Voices in Different Ages & Genders
30:00 Is it Possible to Quieten the Mind?
36:08 Impact of Trauma on Inner Voices
40:46 Speaking in Third Person
47:28 Why Are We Harsher to Ourselves?
52:02 Tips to Control the Inner Voice
1:01:45 Positive Affirmations
1:04:00 Ethan’s Highest Impact Strategies
1:10:46 How to Know if You’re Lost in ‘Chatter’
1:15:21 Where to Find Ethan

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