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Welcome back everyone to The School of Greatness. I'm very excited about our guest, Ethan Kross is in the house. We're talking about Chatter. You're one of the leading experts, psychologists in the world talking about controlling the conscious mind. I've always said as an athlete from Ohio, the great state of Ohio, that-

Ethan Kross (3:35)

We'll get back to that in a little bit.

Lewis Howes (3:37)

I've always said that our thoughts really dictate the outcomes of our life. It's the beginning stages of what we manifest, what we attract, what we create, what we alchemize. If we think more positive, more vision-based, higher level thinking thoughts, we usually alchemize that in our real world. We manifest it. And if we think a lot of negative consuming thoughts, darker thoughts, we typically attract that type of environment as well. Now, this has been talked about as woo-woo world, positive thinking, negative thinking, but now you're bringing in some amazing research talking about the voice in our head and why it matters. Can we talk about, is it really possible to control the conscious mind?

Is that even possible or are thoughts always going to be coming in and out without our ability to control them? Yeah.

Ethan Kross (4:28)

Well, it's a great question to kick us off. And so here's how I break it down. We can't always control, well, we can't control the thoughts that pop up in our head. So we don't know why I'm going to be walking down the street and all of a sudden, just have a really dark thought about this or a positive thought about something else. We don't have control over the thoughts that pop. But what we do have control over is how we engage with those thoughts once they surface.