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Mar 2025
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How To Control Your Inner Voice & Fix Yo...

DOUG BOPST
About this episode

Ethan Kross is a Professor in the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department and Ross School of Business. He is the director of the Emotion & Self-Control Lab. His research examines how people can control their thoughts, feelings and behaviors to improve their lives.

Today on the show we discuss: how to effectively manage negative self talk and emotions, how to harness and control your inner voice, the science of better decision making how to help others regulate their emotions, whether or not negativity is genetic, how to build mental resilience and much more.

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