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Here we go. Welcome back to the quarter of the day show.

I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com.

We got Charles Duhigg on this show today.

And I found this talk absolutely fascinating.

And it answered a lot of questions for me,

specifically about a story from last year where two astronauts were stuck in space together alone, just the two of them.

In very confined quarters, you can't go anywhere, you can't go for a walk, can't go to a store,

can't go out for a drive, like you are just stuck with this person for nine months. Like when

they would do an interview on the news, I would be like, are they faking it? Because they can't be

this happy. Like when the camera turns off, do they just go back to hating each other? Like, how are

they not killing each other being with each other for nine months? And so what I learned from this talk explained it all,

because NASA selects for emotional intelligence and communication skills.

And you are going to learn a communication skill that is going to absolutely change

the way that you relate to people

and connect to people, which is showing people that you're really listening.

Charles Duhigg is coming up.

So everyone familiar with NASA, a large agency in the United States.

In the early 1980s, NASA confronted this kind of interesting problem. President Ronald Reagan came to NASA and he said, look, I want to build an international space station,

and I want you to start doing missions that are six to 12 months long.

Now, for NASA, this was kind of a problem because up until now, their longest

missions had been about 10 days. And now suddenly they have to start putting astronauts into space

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