Ethan Kross has always shared a special link with his grandmother, Dora, whom he considered a “second mother”. She only lived in a few houses of houses from her childhood house, and when he came every day after school, she would shower him with kisses and produced him with food – Matzo balls, chicken broth and noodle puding.
Despite their proximity, she would barely speak of the horrors she had endured during the Nazi occupation in Eyshishok, modern Lithuania, before she emigrated to the United States and found a house in New York. How did she rebuild her life to become such a stable figure for her family? And why has she never discussed her trauma, except on specific occasions like the Holocaust Memorial Day? “I found her confusing, how she could above all avoid talking about these events but it always goes,” explains Kross.
Such questions would follow Kross through his adolescence; inasmuch as experimental psychologist And director of the emotional and self-control laboratory at the University of Michigan, he spent his career looking for an answer. “Emotions are full of wealth and utility, but they can also take over us when we are the most vulnerable,” he said. “So why does it happen? And what can we do to manage them more effectively? This is what I went to higher education to understand.”
Kross's new book, Shift: how to manage your emotions so that they don't manage youis the product of everything he learned. Nor is he the only psychologist fascinated by the idea of ​​mastering our …
