He also provides tools that you can use with other people (such as your employees or team members) to help them work through their chatter and reach their full potential.

He gives you tools that you can use on your own, like using your own name to give yourself a pep talk, that you can use to lead yourself and calm your anxieties in stressful moments. In his talks, Ethan provides us with simple, immediately actionable tools for distancing ourselves from negativity and harnessing our self-talk. His science-based toolkit for avoiding overthinking help all kinds of leaders and employees to build wisdom and coach ourselves through every circumstance. Ethan’s concrete strategies have proven to be an invaluable resource for everyone-from students to small business owners to CEOs-in any challenge or stressful situation. Drawing on his acclaimed book Chatter, he shows us how we can strengthen our emotional and mental fitness to find more meaning, satisfaction, and success in all areas of life. Ethan Kross, award-winning psychology professor at the University of Michigan and director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, says that we can change our lives by changing the conversations we have with ourselves.

We have everything we need to stop overthinking, embrace introspection, and use our inner voice to motivate and propel us forward. “Ethan Kross is one part sage, one part mensch, and one part world class psychological scientist.” -Angela Duckworth, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Grit

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