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Chatter
- The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
- Narrated by: Ethan Kross
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
National Best Seller
An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen our relationships with others.
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award
“A masterpiece.” (Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit • Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink’s Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection)
One of the best new books of the year - The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, PopSugar • Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews
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. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus - you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use?
In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab 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 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.
What the critics say
“There’s something deeply mysterious, even awesome, about our inner voice, the means by which we make ourselves aware of who we are and what we think. Kross has good ideas about how to manage and control this voice.” (The New Yorker)
“Are there right and wrong ways to communicate with yourself, and if so, are there techniques that might usefully be employed by those with inner voices that are just a little too loud?... Kross has found answers to some, if not all, of these questions.... [Chatter] could hardly be published at a more opportune moment.” (The Guardian)
“This compelling collection of stories examines the power that we have to harness our positive and negative thoughts through the conversations we have with ourselves in silent and the incredible that’s already within us to embrace our highest self.” (CNN)
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- karenc09
- 2021-03-03
Gets you really thinking about how you think!
An engaging audio experience, read by the author and his passion for the subject shines through. I really appreciated the author’s personal story as a major driver behind his own research, the findings discussed supported by easy to understand scientific research details. I gained a deeper understanding of how my inner thoughts can help or hinder my actions and how to take constructive queues from them. This is a must read for parents, too. I wish that I had these meaningful insights sooner in my life which would have helped me better self manage my own thoughts and emotions. Thank you, Ethan!
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- Janice Moore
- 2022-05-14
This book is very informative.
I've already begun to use some of the techniques provided in the book. I'll definitely listen to it again.
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- CJH
- 2024-10-09
Practical
Very practical advice, loved the summary at the end. Easy to listen to and very well narrated!
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- Client Amazon
- 2023-07-06
Great tools
Thanks for bringing together all the tools we can use to lower the bad influence of chatter in our lives.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-02-07
This Coach Loved It!
I could not devour it fast enough and will certainly read it again!!
The application of this content is vast; I can hardly think of a professional who wouldnt be able to use this information personally or in work with clients.
The principles are presented clearly and are backed by research, often the author's own.
As a professional coach, my experience is that virtually every situation clients bring has an element of chatter. This book will become an indispensable part of my library, and I'm likely to refer to it frequently. I've already recommended it to many colleagues!
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- Ann Blake
- 2021-03-06
Interesting
The author introduced some interesting ideas and followed up with useful strategies to implement them. Definitely food for thought.
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- Sajjad Dehnoei
- 2022-08-15
Great starting point for self control
The book has great advice for controlling your negative thoughts (chatter). The ideas are supported by practical examples and scientifc studies. Great starting point to learn about ways of controlling self thoughts and nervousness.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-03
Listen, bookmark, review and repeat
When the enemy lives within , this book provides the necessary toolkit to silence his constant chatter or at least lower the volume of his voice.
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- Ani
- 2024-09-18
The narration and the story telling
Loved the easy to use tools which are at our disposal when we find ourselves filled with negative self dialogue
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- Priscilla bergeron
- 2021-03-29
Great and actionnable
This book was great, filled with actionnable examples. Great, simple and easy structure.
The voice was easy to listen to and follow.
I just wished the tools section at the end would have been offered as a PDF along with the audio version.
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