Chatter
By Ethan Kross
- Genre
- Psychology, Philosophy & Personal Development
- Publisher
- Crown (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9780525575238
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It is a work of nonfiction by the psychologist Ethan Kross, published by Crown in January 2021. It examines inner speech and how to manage rumination. It was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #1 Wall Street Journal...
The voice in your head can be your greatest coach or your cruelest critic, and Ethan Kross wants to help you manage it. Chatter examines the inner monologue - that endless stream of self-talk - and the ways it can spiral into corrosive rumination that harms our decisions, relationships and health. Kross, who directs a psychology lab at the University of Michigan, translates his research into practical tools: distanced self-talk, ritual, time in nature, the careful use of other people. The result is a rare self-help book built on solid science and delivered without hype. intendle recommends it for anyone whose mind replays arguments at 3 a.m. or talks them out of things they want to do. An instant New York Times bestseller and a #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller, translated into dozens of languages, it makes the most intimate part of our mental life newly legible. Short, evidence-based and genuinely helpful, it hands you a toolkit for your own head.