Chatter
The Voice In Our Head, Why It Matters – and How to Harness It
by Ethan Kross
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Pub Date 26 Jan 2021 | Archive Date 28 Feb 2021
Random House UK, Ebury Publishing | Vermilion
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Description
Turn your inner voice from critic to coach
Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. Our inner voice helps steer us towards our goals, avoid mistakes and reflect on happy moments. Yet just as quickly it can become our enemy, chewing over our mis-steps and replaying our daily embarrassments. Before we know it, our thoughts are being hijacked by constant, negative ‘chatter’.
So how does this inner voice, so powerful and wise, turn into our biggest critic? And how can we take back control?
These are the questions one of the world’s foremost experts on the conscious mind set out to answer twenty years ago, when he started on an audacious mission — to study the conversations we have with ourselves. In this highly anticipated book, that expert, the award-winning psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross, reveals the sheer power of the inner voice, and shows the tools we can all use to harness it. Hidden in plain sight, these tools are in the words we use, the stories we tell, the conversations we have with loved ones, even our habits and personal rituals. Tiny tweaks can transform our self-talk.
Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter will change the conversations you have with yourself… and help you lead a happier, healthier, more productive life.
Advance Praise
Ethan Kross isn't just a world-renowned scientist, he's an expert storyteller. Urgent, lucid and compelling, Chatter is the book the world needs now. ― Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Quiet Power
Fresh and riveting, Chatter is a landmark book that will change the way you think about human nature. Ethan Kross is one part sage, one part mensch, and one part world-class psychological scientist. When I need advice, it's Ethan I call. ― Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit
This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life - the ones you have with yourself. Along with being a pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist, Ethan Kross is an unusually gifted writer and storyteller. He shows that instead of trying to silence your monkey mind, you can learn to educate it, motivate it, and even reason with it. ― Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B
I talk to myself. So do you. Yet this remarkable capacity for introspection can sometimes lead us astray. Ethan Kross shows us how to redirect our inner voices away from rumination and self-criticism, and toward reflection and self-improvement. Chatter is profound and practical - it will leave you with a fresh understanding of yourself, and new strategies to live a fuller life. ― Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive, To Sell is Human, and A Whole New Mind
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781785041945 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 336 |
Featured Reviews
ANGIE W, Reviewer
Interesting book about something that most of us experience - chatter inside our head.
This book is well written by a respected psychologist and neuroscientist, and is aimed at the average person with little grounding in psychology. Each chapter focuses on different types of chatter we experience and how we can learn to live with it, control and use it to our advantage.
At the end Tools section gives you more ideas of how to apply his theories to your own life, showing that small changes can make a big difference to the chatter than goes on in our head.
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