When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. About Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It:Īn award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen our relationships with others. But a book that’s more about self-talk/the voice in our head that NEVER shuts up? Now that, I’m here for.Īnd this is especially relevant for me this week since Peter has caught me stuck in my own head and missing chunks of our conversations twice in the past few days, which is prompting me to worry that maybe I’m thinking about way too much right now and I need to get the voices in my head to turn the volume down just a bit.ĪNYWAY. Or, if it is talking about that, I admit that maybe I’ve just read too many sports psych books and articles over the years and find them a bit repetitive. It’s too much about race day nerves, and not enough about the everyday training side of things. I find sometimes, sports psych books are too race-day-focused.

I love a good sports psych book, but when I heard Ethan Kross on a podcast recently, I realized that his book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, might be the perfect bridge between a book that could help with everyday life (therefore improving our ability to train efficiently) and a book that could really help on race day.

Ethan chatter