In episode #179 of the Glass and Out podcast, we’re joined by Dr. Ethan Kross, who 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.

Dr. Kross is the author of the National Bestseller Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters and How to Harness It, which was chosen as one of the best new books of the year by the Washington Post, CNN and USA Today. He will be going into further detail on the topic of his book at next month’s TCS Live. If you haven’t already bought your ticket, you can still register. You definitely don’t want to miss it.

Kross’ research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, The Economist, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Time. Legit.

In this week’s podcast, he shares how we can all improve our mental skills, regardless of what stage of life we’re in, why it’s important to embrace stress, and the problems with over venting.