“A revolutionary guide to mastering your emotional life.”—Charles Duhigg “Brilliant engaging
and deeply insightful.”—Lisa Damour “A blueprint for navigating the emotional curveballs that
life throws at us every day.” —The New York Times INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Oprah
Daily ’s Best Self-Help Books for Personal Growth in 2025 Next Big Idea Club’s Highly
Anticipated Books and Adam Grant’s 10 New Books to Feed Your Mind A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR A myth-busting science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of
how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess—from the bestselling author
of Chatter. Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor boiling rage when we’re stuck in
traffic or devastation after a painful break-up our lives are filled with situations that
send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be they are also a superpower. Far
from being “good” or “bad ” emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways
and at the right time they function like an immune system alerting us to our surroundings
telling us how to react to a situation and helping us make the right choices. But how do we
make our emotions work for us rather than against us? Acclaimed psychologist Dr. Ethan Kross
has devoted his scientific career to answering this question. In Shift he dispels common
myths—for instance that avoidance is always toxic or that we should always strive to live in
the moment—and provides a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our
lives. Shift weaves groundbreaking research with riveting stories of people struggling and
succeeding to manage their emotions—from a mother whose fear prompted her to make a
spur-of-the-moment decision that would save her daughter’s life mid-flight to a nuclear
code-carrying Navy SEAL who learned how to embrace both joy and pain during a hellish training
activity. Dr. Kross spotlights a wide array of tools that we already have access to—in our
bodies and minds our relationships with other people and the cultures and physical spaces we
inhabit—and shows us how to harness them to be healthier and more successful. Filled with
actionable advice cutting-edge research and riveting stories Shift puts the power back into
our hands so we can control our emotions without them controlling us—and help others do the
same.
