What to do if your inner voice is cruel | Ethan Kross for Big Think+
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Your inner voice isn't always very nice or helpful. When we turn our attention inward, we tend to focus on problems rather than solutions.
This causes us to worry, ruminate, and catastrophize, which traps us in a negative thought cycle.
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About Ethan Kross:
Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions and relationships.
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