![]() Much of Kross’s talk focused on sharing strategies for making our inner voice work for us rather than allowing it to sabotoge us. Kross shared examples of how all kinds of people, including elite athletes, can be affected negatively by chatter-the inner voice that tells you you’re not good enough or that you’re an imposter or that your earlier successes were an accident. “Sometimes we get stuck in negative thought loops, which I call ‘chatter.’” That chatter, he said, can knock out our attention or lead to “paralysis by analysis.” “We use it to tell ourselves stories-to create a story that explains our situation. He explained that it is part of our working memory, which we use to simulate and plan. “I think of the inner voice as a super power,” he said. ![]() His subject? His new book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It. Ethan Kross, best-selling author, experimental psychologist, and neuroscientist from the University of Michigan, spoke in long assembly on October 20. ![]()
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