People want to share their negative experiences much more often than their positive ones.
Second, Kross details a study proving that negative experiences are more likely to trigger the desire to verbalize your emotional state. When his mind suddenly shined a spotlight on each physical component of his pitching motion, he lost the ability to perform at the level required and took years to transform himself back into a major leaguer-as an outfielder instead of as a pitcher. The author uses the example of professional baseball pitcher Rick Ankiel, whose entire career was turned upside down by chatter. Research has shown that internal chatter that takes the form of repetitive anxious thoughts will sabotage focused tasks. By comparison, speeches of about 6000 words can take up to an hour to speak aloud. On the bright side, the mind’s flexibility can also provide us with tools to escape this vortex of chatter.įirst, it is important to understand that self-talk happens at a rate equivalent to 4000 words per minute. This has many benefits, but it also gives us the risk of wallowing in negative chatter. While modern self-help focuses on the value of being mindful and staying “in the moment,” the mind is, in fact, an avid time traveler that can look into the past and peer into the future. Specifically, it explores the negative self-talk loop that people can find themselves in and what they can do about it.
Ethan Kross’s Chatter is a book about self-talk.
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