City Opera House welcomes bestselling author and one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation, Ethan Kross, PhD. Ethan reveals how to harness the positive power of your constant inner voice in his national bestselling book, Chatter. He will talk with guest host Dana Black about how to use your typically critical inner voice to instead combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen your relationships with others. He’ll also talk about his upcoming book, Shift, that focuses on how to manage your emotions.
Dr. Kross is an award-winning psychologist and the director of University of Michigan’s Emotion and Self Control laboratory. In his book Chatter, Ethan talks about the constant, silent conversations we all have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research with real-world case studies – from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy – Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk, what he calls “chatter”, can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.
But the good news, he says, is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight, in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.
Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.
