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Dr. Ethan Kross

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Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

experiences in this world to to minimize the likelihood of engaging in certain kinds of comparisons that might repeatedly lead you astray so what do i mean by that if you find for example that there's someone on your feed whatever your social media application of choice is that they're a vulnerability spot for you so they are someone who you know maybe you don't like them you asked about liking maybe they're a real competitor and and you find that just you know

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Learning about their monthly podcast downloads just sends you astray.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Learning about their monthly podcast downloads just sends you astray.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Learning about their monthly podcast downloads just sends you astray.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That's right. So, you know, what did we talk about with the pizza before? that getting rid of that pizza and the trigger in the first place from a regulatory standpoint is likely to be a lot more effective than having to deal with it once it is activated. So curating your feeds, right? Minimizing the degree in which you come into contact with that information. That's another step you can take.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That's right. So, you know, what did we talk about with the pizza before? that getting rid of that pizza and the trigger in the first place from a regulatory standpoint is likely to be a lot more effective than having to deal with it once it is activated. So curating your feeds, right? Minimizing the degree in which you come into contact with that information. That's another step you can take.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That's right. So, you know, what did we talk about with the pizza before? that getting rid of that pizza and the trigger in the first place from a regulatory standpoint is likely to be a lot more effective than having to deal with it once it is activated. So curating your feeds, right? Minimizing the degree in which you come into contact with that information. That's another step you can take.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

And it's blending the environment and the social, which is another important piece to keep in mind that these tools often go hand in hand. So like another example of that is nature, going for a walk in nature. That's an environmental tool. But one of the reasons why nature is so restorative is it captures our attention from the sensory experiences, the smells, the sights.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

And it's blending the environment and the social, which is another important piece to keep in mind that these tools often go hand in hand. So like another example of that is nature, going for a walk in nature. That's an environmental tool. But one of the reasons why nature is so restorative is it captures our attention from the sensory experiences, the smells, the sights.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

And it's blending the environment and the social, which is another important piece to keep in mind that these tools often go hand in hand. So like another example of that is nature, going for a walk in nature. That's an environmental tool. But one of the reasons why nature is so restorative is it captures our attention from the sensory experiences, the smells, the sights.

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

So there are these ways in which These different shifters are coming together in different experiences. Final one, culture. Culture. It's the air we breathe. It is everywhere. And it's often something we take for granted. And I think the more we stop to really think about the role plays in our emotional lives and the lives of people we care about, the better off we will all be. What is culture?

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

So there are these ways in which These different shifters are coming together in different experiences. Final one, culture. Culture. It's the air we breathe. It is everywhere. And it's often something we take for granted. And I think the more we stop to really think about the role plays in our emotional lives and the lives of people we care about, the better off we will all be. What is culture?

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

So there are these ways in which These different shifters are coming together in different experiences. Final one, culture. Culture. It's the air we breathe. It is everywhere. And it's often something we take for granted. And I think the more we stop to really think about the role plays in our emotional lives and the lives of people we care about, the better off we will all be. What is culture?

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Number one, it's our values and our beliefs. So let's bring this whole conversation full circle. Do you think you can actually control your emotions? Yes. Our culture, thank you, good answer. Our culture is giving us those beliefs. I am communicating to my kids from the time they're little,

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Number one, it's our values and our beliefs. So let's bring this whole conversation full circle. Do you think you can actually control your emotions? Yes. Our culture, thank you, good answer. Our culture is giving us those beliefs. I am communicating to my kids from the time they're little,

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

Number one, it's our values and our beliefs. So let's bring this whole conversation full circle. Do you think you can actually control your emotions? Yes. Our culture, thank you, good answer. Our culture is giving us those beliefs. I am communicating to my kids from the time they're little,

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That, yeah, you may not be able to control when you experience an emotion, but once you have it, there's a lot of things you can do. You don't have to feel this way. If you don't want to, you can do these other things, right? So I am the culture, and family is a kind of microculture. I'm giving my kids values and beliefs. Values, like...

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That, yeah, you may not be able to control when you experience an emotion, but once you have it, there's a lot of things you can do. You don't have to feel this way. If you don't want to, you can do these other things, right? So I am the culture, and family is a kind of microculture. I'm giving my kids values and beliefs. Values, like...

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

That, yeah, you may not be able to control when you experience an emotion, but once you have it, there's a lot of things you can do. You don't have to feel this way. If you don't want to, you can do these other things, right? So I am the culture, and family is a kind of microculture. I'm giving my kids values and beliefs. Values, like...

Modern Wisdom
#914 - Dr Ethan Kross - How To Stop Feeling Negative Emotions All The Time

We value the role that emotions play in our lives, and we also value the importance of regulating those emotions to help us achieve our goals. We believe that it is possible to do so. Another important thing that culture does, though, is it doesn't just give us these values and beliefs. It gives us tools. To help us live up to those values and beliefs, right? To actualize them.