My guest today is Ethan Cross, he's 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 and 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 quiet in 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.

I very much appreciate Ethan's insights today. One of the main ones is something that I've

always had an inkling is effective, this distancing third party, treating yourself like somebody

you are responsible for helping thing, and there are tons of exercises and strategies to take away

from today, plus a surprise feature from one of the maids in the hotel that I was staying at in

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