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  • The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It
  • By: Ethan Kross
  • Narrated by: Ethan Kross
  • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (239 ratings)

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By: Ethan Kross
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One of the best new books of 2021 - Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink's Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection, BBC Science Focus Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN Underscored, Apple Books, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, Mindbodygreen, POPSUGAR, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews.

One of the best new books of January 2021 - BBC Science Focus Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly starred reviews.

As featured in Apple's 'Best Audiobooks of 2021 so far'!

Turn your inner voice from critic to coach.

We all have a voice in our head. We tune into its endless chatter to look for guidance, ideas and wisdom. Except sometimes, this voice leads us down a rabbit hole of negative self-talk and endless rumination.

These silent conversations are so powerful they can sink our mood, trip us up and even impact our health. How can we take back control? This is the question award-winning psychologist Ethan Kross set out to answer 20 years ago when he began an audacious mission - to study the conversations we have with ourselves.

In Chatter, Kross interweaves cutting-edge science with real-world case studies to explain how these inner conversations shape our work and relationships. Then he reveals the tools you need to harness your own voice so that you can be happier, healthier and more productive.

Brilliantly argued and expertly researched, Chatter will explain how the conversations we have with ourselves shape our lives and will give you the power to change them.

©2021 Ethan Kross (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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"This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life-the ones you have with yourself." (Adam Grant, best-selling author of Give and Take)

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Life changing - what an amazing book

I honestly couldn’t stop listening to this. Best Audiobook I’ve ever invested in! I will be getting my whole family and as many people I can to listen to this. Really useful book to have. Thank you Ethan Kross.

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Interesting book! Enjoyable from a sport perspective… narrator is effective and not boring… probably worth listening twice too

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Excellent book, I’m going to get the hard copy too

I’m a stress and burnout coach, and many of the tools I know already, but many I did not. I’ve spent years collecting these tools for my clients to use and here they all are in one book. Add in some productivity tools, mindfulness tools and reframing tools, and you’ve got everything you need to live a stress free productive life. Great job Ethan Cross.

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A powerful book to help people

I enjoyed listening to this book - it's calm, soothing narration about our inner voice, how and why we developped it and how to take control over it. the book gives pratcical tools for dealing with chatter taking over your mind and life. Well researched and written.

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I found this helpful and accessible

I already do some of the techniques, but it's nice to think I may do them knowingly now, with purpose, and have a list to refer to when the chatter is to loud to implement them. I appreciate the inclusion of how the author guides his own children too. I think the author did well with this book, and narrated it well too.

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Very practical advice

I related to this immediately for it’s content , but also the narrator maintains an active and lively intonation.
I found it useful even before the book was finished.

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It is a very helpful book to comprehend chatter. I use some of the tools already

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Relatable and Helpful

For me, I found this book at a time where I was starting to face into some of the inner dialogie challenges that I had ignored for some time, so it was not only relatable but also very timely. Ethan Kross has captured and explained inner “chatter” in a way that made thorough sense and it gives some really wonderful tools to manage it yourself and in ways to help others.

This is not a step by step guide to self help though, if thats what you are seeking you may not find that here but it will contextualise some of the challenges really well. Honestly a great book and has helped me immensely!

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We all have a voice in our head... except this voice just so happens to be a book about the voices in our head.

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Love the practical tools list at the end

This is a great book! Good mix of evidence and annecdotes, to make it informative, practical and very engaging at the same time.

It gives you the tools you need to calm a mind prone to spiralling thoughts. I've already started recounting methods when I find myself struggling, particularly at work when I get a pang of imposter syndrome or I feel burnt out and disengaged.

It's not too short or too long, just the right length for the volume of information in my opinion.

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