by Ethan Kross
Kross, a psychologist who studies self-talk, argues that the inner voice is a crucial cognitive tool that turns toxic when it spirals into rumination, eroding health, performance, and relationships. Drawing on his lab's experiments, he prescribes concrete techniques like distanced self-talk, using one's own name, and temporal distancing to quiet the chatter.
In this collection, Chatter references 3 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, The Body Keeps the Score and The Willpower Instinct.
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Kross draws on Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow dual-process framework when explaining why the inner voice so often hijacks slow deliberation with fast, emotional rumination.
Kross cites van der Kolk's Body Keeps the Score work on trauma to argue that chronic chatter physically wears down the body through sustained stress-hormone exposure.
Kross engages Kelly McGonigal's Willpower Instinct research on self-regulation to explain why suppressing inner chatter backfires and why self-distancing succeeds where willpower fails.
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