Managing your emotions so they don't manage you

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Avoiding your emotions is generally a recipe for disaster — but Ethan Kross makes a case for occasional 'strategic' avoidance.

He’s a professor of psychology from the University of Michigan, and he’s appeared in some of our most popular episodes: Controlling the chatter in your head and What influences your inner voice? Controlling 'chatter' part two.

He’s back to share more tools for taking charge of your emotions.

Guests:

Ethan Kross, PhDProfessor of Psychology and Management, University of MichiganAuthor, Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You

Credits:

Presenter/producer: Sana Qadar
Senior producer: James Bullen
Producer: Rose Kerr
Sound engineer: Dylan Prins

Transcript

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0:00.0	ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music, and more.
0:09.2	Do you feel like you have control over your emotions, or do your emotions rule you?
0:15.6	If you're not able to manage your distractions, you're probably not going to be able to focus and study as much.
0:21.4	If you're not able to manage your temptations, you're probably going to consume substances
0:26.5	that aren't as good for your health.
0:28.2	This is Ethan Cross.
0:29.6	He's a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, where he also directs the
0:33.8	emotion and self-control lab.
0:36.2	And if you're a longtime listener of All In
0:38.3	the Mind, you'll recognize him from our episodes on chatter.
0:42.3	That is, your internal monologue when it spirals into rumination.
0:46.4	When people tell me that they experience chatter, which is really the dark side of the inner
0:51.7	voice, it's an example.
0:53.1	Those episodes were some of our most popular ever.
0:56.9	And some of you, our listeners,
0:58.7	have been asking us to bring Ethan back on the show
1:01.2	to discuss the ideas in his new book, Shift,
1:05.2	how to manage your emotions so they don't manage you.
1:09.5	So, we listened.
1:10.8	People were just so curious about their so they don't manage you. So, we listened.
1:16.0	People were just so curious about their emotional lives,
1:17.9	wanting to understand those lives,
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