Coming up next on the Passion Struck Podcast, we're born into the world with this remarkable set of tools, our emotions, but we don't get a user's manual that teaches us how to use those tools.

So we're just stumbling along and our experiences in the world teach us things and sometimes the lessons we learn are really good ones when it comes to how to manage our emotions of things our parents and culture teaches us.

But sometimes they're not. And so we're not calibrated and where I see science is being able to really contribute is by helping provide people with those really guidelines for how to optimize the usage of these tools.

Welcome to Passion Struck. Hi, I'm your host, John Armiles and on the show we decipher the secrets, tips and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you.

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Now let's go out there and become Passion Struck. Hello, everyone and welcome back to episode 245 of Passion Struck.

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Now let's talk about today's episode. We all have an inner voice that we can use to evaluate our actions learn from past mistakes and better prepare for the future.

And more importantly, all too often this voice turns into a stream of negative thoughts as well as emotions and rather than help us improve, it can hold us back by causing remination, anxiety and even self sabotage.

But what if you contain and properly harness your inner voice and enjoy many of the benefits that come from self reflection and introspection while greatly reducing, unproductive and negative self talk.

And Ross joins us today to discuss precisely how to do it. Ethan is one of the world's leading experts on how to control the conscious mind and award winning professor and best selling author of the book chatter.

He teaches in the University of Michigan's top-ranked psychology department and its Ross School of Business.

And he's has the conversations that people have with themselves, impact their health, performance, decisions and relationships. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008 where he founded Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory.

Thank you for choosing Passion Struck and choosing me to be your host and guide on creating an intentional life now. Let that journey begin.

I am a static and honored today to welcome Dr. Ethan Cross under the Passion Struck podcast. Welcome, Ethan.

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