Q: "How Do I Stop Negative Self-talk?"
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It can speak to us in the middle of a work project, the middle of a date, or the middle of the night. The critical voice in our head telling us we're just not good enough and we're headed for failure. Listener Patricia Branigan wrote in to ask what we can do the quiet down this chatter.
To explain what damage negative self-talk does to us and explore some simple strategies to challenge our inner critic, Dr Laurie Santos is joined by "chatter" expert Ethan Kross (professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan).
You can read more in Ethan's book 'Chatter: The Voice in our Head (And How to Harness it)'.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Earlier this year, Itonic class at Yale on the Science of Wobying and how we can apply |
| 0:17.2 | research-backed strategies to live happier lives. |
| 0:20.0 | What we're continuing our discussion on today are the kinds of right sorts of thoughts |
| 0:24.9 | that seem to make us happy. |
| 0:26.6 | It was the same course that I had offered for the first time back in 2018. |
| 0:30.9 | It's the one that got a lot of media attention and led to the creation of this podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | But this time around, I added a new happiness to it. |
| 0:37.6 | Worry, negative thought patterns, rumination, these are not good, they're not effective |
| 0:42.1 | strategies, but what are some effective strategies for controlling our thoughts? |
| 0:45.7 | Are there thought patterns we can use that aren't just neutral but actively help us? |
| 0:50.2 | My new lecture was all about strategies we can use to change our inner monologue and |
| 0:54.5 | fight our inner critic. |
| 0:56.5 | When my students reviewed the class at the end of the semester, they said this new lecture |
| 1:00.2 | was the most useful part of the entire class. |
| 1:03.4 | Pretty much all of the strategies my students found so helpful came from one particular book. |
| 1:08.3 | This fantastic book by Ethan Cross called Chatter, it's all about useful strategies and ways |
| 1:13.6 | you can talk to yourself in your head to improve well-being and also improve productivity. |
| 1:18.7 | So when I invited listeners of this podcast to write in with questions about how to be |
| 1:22.2 | happier, I wasn't all that surprised when we got a ton of questions on the same theme. |
| 1:26.5 | How can we shut up that inner voice in our heads so that we can feel happier? |
| 1:31.3 | And I knew exactly who to call to get some answers. |
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