EFR 609: Dr. Ethan Kross on Harnessing the Voice in Your Head, Mental Time Travel, and Navigating Mental Chatter
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You talk to yourself every single day. When you’re processing information and experiences, making decisions, and preparing for the unknown ahead, you always talk yourself through it in your mind, right?
The interesting part of this phenomenon that we all experience is that the conversations we have with ourselves impact our health, performance, decisions, and relationships. In fact, they might just be the most important conversations we can have in our lifetime… and this week’s special guest studies just that.
Ethan Kross is a scientist, award-winning professor, best-selling author of Chatter, and one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind.
In this discussion, Ethan and Chase talk about how to harness, understand, and apply the voice in your head to your real life. Ethan speaks on the power of mental chatter and rumination, practical ways to navigate your thoughts and solve problems, and the research he’s done on internal conversation, introspection, and language.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Following is an Operation Podcast Production. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, everyone, my name is Ethan Cross. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm the author of Chatter, The Voice in Her Head, |
| 0:08.0 | Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm also a professor at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Emotion and Self-controlled Laboratory. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're going to be talking about a concept that I think we're all familiar with at some level some level but it's also a mysterious one the idea that we talk to ourselves at times and one of the the points I'm gonna hope to try to convince you of is that these conversations that we have with ourselves |
| 0:35.4 | are pretty important. In fact, there's some of the most important conversations that we have in our life. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:50.0 | This is your number one source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and truly living a life ever forward. |
| 0:57.0 | Conversations and messages that will take your fitness, nutrition, and mindset to the next level. |
| 1:03.0 | I am your host Chase Chuning. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Ever Forward Radio. What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:19.3 | What's going on everybody? |
| 1:20.4 | Welcome back to the show. Man, we are just plowing through June |
| 1:25.2 | hard to believe we were halfway through the year and if you're like me you're kind of |
| 1:30.0 | just talking to yourself about am I on par with what I wanted to do for this year? |
| 1:36.7 | What do I have left to do the rest of this year? |
| 1:39.7 | What's going on this month, this week, today. Well, you're not alone. You're not alone in the sense that we all kind of have this inner monologue, this voice in our head, intuition, this chatterbox that kind of serves as a guiding compass sometimes, |
| 1:59.0 | but other times it might feel overwhelming. |
| 2:02.0 | We don't feel like maybe we're on the one driving the ship. We're not in control of the voice in our head. |
| 2:07.6 | But today's guest, Dr. Ethan Cross, is going to not only help us understand what that voice in our head is |
| 2:14.7 | teaching us but really how to put ourselves back in the driver's seat. How to |
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