218: How to Stop Negative Thoughts and Make Friends With Your Mind | Ethan Kross, PhD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Ethan Kross is one of the world's leading experts on controlling 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, and national best-selling author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/218-ethan-kross

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0:00.0	Hello friends, it's episode 218 of the Genius Life. Welcome aboard.
0:16.6	What's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Genius Life. I'm your host Max
0:20.4	Lugovier of Filmmaker, Health & Science here in Austin, author of The New York Times' best-selling
0:23.6	book Genius Foods and The Genius Life. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our
0:28.3	choices including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance,
0:32.5	how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in
0:37.2	that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. Today I'm so pleased to introduce you to
0:42.8	Dr. Ethan Cross. Ethan is one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind.
0:48.8	He's an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan's top ranked psychology department
0:53.6	and he's the author of the National Best-selling Book, Chatter, The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters,
0:58.5	and How to Harnus It. In today's episode, we learn how to break free from the loop of negative
1:03.1	chatter so that we can use our inner voice as a source of innovation and strength. Dr. Cross shares
1:08.6	why you should be your own coach and how shifting your inner dialogue to the third person can change
1:13.6	your perspective, giving you distance from chatter. We also chat about how to properly event and
1:19.5	therefore be a better friend. And then finally, Ethan and I discuss the importance of spending time
1:24.4	in nature and how spending more time in nature can make us feel a connection to something larger
1:28.6	than ourselves which can make our problems feel smaller. So important in this episode of the show,
1:34.1	and that's why I'm so glad that you guys are here to take it all in. I love taping this episode.
1:39.4	Everybody, including me, occasionally has negative thoughts. It's just a natural part of having a
1:46.1	mind that does ultimately what it wants. And so Dr. Cross shares some really valuable information
1:53.4	with very actionable tips over the course of the next hour. And I'm here for it. Definitely,
1:58.6	listen closely and share this with friends and loved ones who may benefit from the wisdom
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