How To Improve Your Inner Voice - Ethan Kross - #477

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
My guest today is Ethan Kross. He's one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind, a professor at the University of Michigan Psychology Department, and director of the Emotion and Self Control Laboratory. There will be one voice with us throughout our lives, the one that exists inside of our head. So we'd better make friends with it. Improving self-talk and creating a nicer inner monologue is something that everyone could benefit from. And thankfully, that's been Ethan's life's work. Expect to learn why we have an inner voice at all, how our age and gender influences mental chatter, whether it's possible to quieten the mind, the most effective strategies for dealing with negative self-talk, how to be more objective and less lost in thought, the relationship between language and quality of life, and much more. I very much appreciate Ethan's insights today. One of the main ones is something that I've always had an inkling is effective, this distancing, third party, treating yourself like somebody you are responsible for helping thing. And there are tons of exercises and strategies to take away from today. Plus a surprise feature from one of the maids in the hotel that I was staying at in Guatemala. So keep an ear out for her. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Wondrium. Wondrium is focused on helping you become a better version of yourself through audio and video courses on hundreds of topics taught by university professors and world class credible experts who all know their stuff. I just watched Understanding Your Inner Genius, where I learned that you actually might be able to help your brain have a breakthrough by closing your eyes, because research says that the moments of insight happen when your brain isn't focused on processing visual information. Wondrium is basically a subscription video service with content on just about any topic. If you want to pick up a new skill, or just learn more about the world around you, it is an awesome platform. They've got some of the best producers on there. They've got collaborators like The Great Courses Plus, Magellan and Intelligence Squared to provide learning experiences that you literally can't get anywhere else. And they've got thousands of videos, including courses, documentaries, tutorials and more. And you can get access to all of these completely free for two weeks. All that you need to do is go to wondrium.com/modernwisdom. That's wondrium.com/modernwisdom.
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