600 - Charles Duhigg (Author of Supercommunicators)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

CHARLES DUHIGG is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Smarter Faster Better, was also a New York Times bestseller.

His latest book, Supercommunicators, is out now.

Charles currently writes for The New Yorker magazine.

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, You ever meet a guy and you go into it thinking
0:34.4	fuck this guy
0:36.9	I'm not gonna like this guy
0:40.3	Because he did all the things you're supposed to do.
0:45.0	He went to Yale, he went to Harvard,
0:48.0	he got a Pulitzer Prize in journalism,
0:52.0	he's got three New York Times best selling books.
0:55.1	Fuck this guy! And then you meet him and you talk for a while and it's like,
1:02.1	ah, fuck, but he's a nice guy.
1:05.0	Shit.
1:06.0	He's a pretty cool guy.
1:10.0	Well, that's my guess today's name's Charles Duhege.
1:15.0	He writes for the New Yorker.
1:18.0	His latest book, which is coming out,
1:21.0	I think it came out today or tomorrow is called super communicators. You know one of the things
1:28.8	he does well is he's got a team that sort of puts together the launch. So you're probably hearing about Charles
1:37.8	Duhigan's super communicators all over the place. You're probably hearing him chatting with Terry Gross and Stephen Colbert and
1:46.2	he probably has a guest column in the New York Times in the Washington Post and yeah he does it right and you got it you got to give it to him I mean I
1:59.8	guess you can be a nice guy and also be highly successful and just sort of good at everything
2:06.9	you try.
2:07.9	I guess it's possible, I don't know. What is it that makes us want to sort of dislike people who do
2:18.1	do we feel it about all endeavors?
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