My guest today is Dr. Ethan Kross, a renowned psychologist, bestselling author, and expert on controlling the conscious mind. As an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan, he directs the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory, exploring how our inner dialogue shapes our lives. In this conversation, we explore tactical tools for mastering emotional turbulence and how to harness your mind when it feels like it’s working against you. If you ever feel shackled by this negative inner voice–the one that criticizes, catastrophizes, and sends us spiraling into rumination–this episode is a must listen. Now streaming everywhere you listen to your podcasts. Episode 894. ✌🏼🌱 - Rich

You're living life, something happens, your emotion gets triggered, and then as time goes on it eventually fades. Different emotions get triggered to different intensities, some come down right away, some last longer, some emotions just categorically stick around longer than others. But most of our experiences follow that time course. When we are down in the doldrums and disaster casting, we lose sight of that truism that we fundamentally believe. And so jumping into that time travel machine, how am I going to feel about this next week? It makes accessible as bad as this is. It's not going to stick around forever. I cannot tell you how much that brings the volume down on the negative experience. It's not turning a terrible event into this joyous birthday party occasion, but it's turning the intensity down often enough to be more productive.