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I'm Rufus Griskym and this is the next big idea.

Today at number seven in our countdown of last year's most popular book bites

as chosen by our discerning app users, we have chatter.

The voice in our head, why it matters and how to harness it by Ethan Cross.

The voice in your head yacks it up about half the time you're awake

and it can speak at an astonishing rate of 4,000 words per minute.

When it gets going like that, not everything it says is particularly helpful.

We've all gotten stuck dwelling on the past, worrying about the future,

we're devolving from introspection into negativity.

Experimental psychologist Ethan Cross calls these moments

chatter. When the inner voice runs and muck and chatter takes the

mental microphone, he says, our mind not only torments but paralyzes us.

Luckily, there are tools we can use to take back the mic.

Here's Ethan to talk you through them.

Hello book bite listeners. My name is Ethan Cross.

I'm a professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan

and the director of the emotion self-control laboratory.

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