Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host for

the Watts Essential Podcast. I'm also the author of Essentialism, the discipline

pursuit of less and my goal is to decode exactly how to design a life that

really matters because if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

If you're new to the show, take a deep breath. Almost everything is trivial.

Only a few things are essential and that's what this show is all about. My job

is to interview, get deep really with authors, entrepreneurs, psychologists and

everyday people to help explore what's essential. Through a process of

listening, unpacking and going deep with each guest we turn each episode into

practical advice for intentionally planning and living in order to move forward.

So now to today's episode with Dr Ethan Cross, the author of Chatter, the

voice in our head, why it matters and how to harness it. I mean the truth is that

we all have a voice in our head. 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 boil us up. Focus you can do this but just as

often our inner critic sinks as entirely, going to fail, the lawfully, what's the

use. Listen to this episode, if you want to have some practical insights, to be

able to tune into that inner coach, to the voice that really will guide you and

help you to be able to figure out what's true and essential. And if you'd like

to kick the inner critic out, to be able to manage that tension better and to be

able to therefore live a life that really matters. So here we go. Dr Ethan

Cross, the author of a really important new book, Chatter, the voice in our

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