This episode really is full of actionable tips that will help you redirect your inner chatter away from rumination and self-criticism towards reflection and self-improvement. Why you might want to consider putting together your own ‘board of advisors’.How rituals and awe create control and perspective.When social media is helpful, and when it’s not.How to support others through their chatter.What distance self-talk is and how it can help us.That sometimes ‘in the moment’ is not the best place to be.If this all sounds intriguing, but too good to be true, rest assured, this conversation is packed with super-practical advice. It’s our inner voice that makes us unique as humans, so rather than silencing the chatter, we need to learn how to harness it. But that same voice can also help us innovate, problem, solve, fantasize, rationalize, and in many ways, help us to shape our identity. The language we use about ourselves, he says can be incredibly powerful. In his brand-new book, Chatter: The Voice In Our Head and How to Harness It, Ethan combines groundbreaking research with real life examples to illustrate how our inner voice controls our life. So, is it possible to take back control and harness the power of this so called ‘inner chatter’? This is the question the award-winning psychologist and guest on today’s podcast, Dr Ethan Kross set out to answer 20 years ago, when he began to study the conversations that we have with ourselves. But sometimes this voice can lead us down a rabbit hole of negative self-talk and endless rumination.
And we often turn to this voice for guidance, ideas and wisdom.
Do you have a voice inside your head? For most of us, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.
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