He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.Įthan’s research has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other peer-reviewed journals. in Psychology from Columbia University, Ethan completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions, and relationships.Įthan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. We want to tell their stories-because the best way to become a Pirate is to study other Pirates.Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. Their strategies, frameworks, and mental models for successfully designing & dominating new categories of consequence.Įvery legendary entrepreneur, executive, investor, and creator of any kind is a Category Designer. The radically different POVs these Category Designers evangelized in the world-and the obstacles they had to overcome to move people’s thinking FROM where it was TO somewhere new.

Untold stories of Category Designers who shaped the world we live in today (that you probably have never heard of before-but whose products, services, and platforms you have used thousands of times!). In these Pirate Profiles, you will discover: Pirate Profiles is a series by Category Pirates spotlighting legendary Category Designers across a wide range of industries and disciplines. Ethan Kross on Christopher Lochhead's Follow Your Different podcast.

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