Q: "How Do I Stop Negative Self-talk?"

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  Pushkin.

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  Earlier this year,

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  I taught a class at Yale on the science of wellbeing and how we can apply research-backed strategies to live happier lives.

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  What we're continuing our discussion on today are the kinds of right sorts of thoughts that seem to make us happy.

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  It was the same course that I had offered for the first time back in 2018.

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  It's the one that got a lot of media attention and led to the creation of this podcast.

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  But this time around, I added a new happiness top.

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  Worry, negative thought patterns, rumination, these are not good.

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  They're not effective strategies,

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  but what are some effective strategies for controlling our thoughts?

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  Are there thought patterns we can use that aren't just neutral but actively help us?

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  My new lecture was all about strategies we can use to change our inner monologue and fight our inner critic.

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  When my students reviewed the class at the end of the semester,

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  they said this new lecture was the most useful part of the entire class.

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  Pretty much all of the strategies my students found so helpful came from one particular book.

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  This fantastic book by Ethan Cross called Chatter.

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  It's all about useful strategies and ways you can talk to yourself in your head to improve well-being and also improve productivity.

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  So when I invited listeners of this podcast to write in with questions about how to be happier,

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  I wasn't all that surprised when we got a ton of questions on the same theme.

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  How can we shut up that inner voice in our heads so that we can feel happier?

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