Dr. Ethan Kross on Why Managing Our Emotions Is a Critical Life Skill

As we continue this great week of episodes, I’m delighted today to welcome Dr. Ethan Kross to the show to talk about his latest book Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You, which is out February 4. Shift follows the success of Ethan’s 2021 book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, which was an international bestseller. In Shift, we’re talking all about emotions — and how they can be our superpower if we can learn how to regulate and manage them. How do we make our emotions work for us, rather than against us? Ethan is helping us find that answer. Ethan is a psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, and one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation and is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked psychology department and its Ross School of Business. He is also the director of the Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. In addition to appearing on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition, he has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has had his research featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, USA Today, and more. He is a graduate of Penn and Columbia and has spoken at TED, SXSW, and consulted with some of the world’s top executives and organizations. From Shift’s opening pages, it’s a power punch, and I’m excited for you to hear what he has to say.

Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You by Dr. Ethan Kross