786: How to (Really) Strengthen Your Relationships with Eric Barker
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Eric Barker shares science-based wisdom on how to make your relationships flourish.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The two critical elements of trust-building
2) The secret to dealing with difficult people
3) How to navigate difficult conversations
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— ABOUT ERIC —
Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree, which has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. It was even the subject of a question on “Jeopardy!” Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work has been covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center. His new book, Plays Well with Others, will be released by HarperCollins in May of 2022.
• Website: EricBarker.org
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• Book: Pre-Suasion: Channeling Attention for Change by Robert Cialdini
• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Past episode: 275: How to Manage Your Manager with Mary Abbajay
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 786 with Eric Barker. |
| 0:23.6 | Eric had some great insights on how to truly strengthen relationships |
| 0:28.4 | if they're at work, if they're outside of work, either way, it's going to make you |
| 0:31.6 | more awesome at your job and have more fun and energy and good stuff flow. |
| 0:36.6 | And so you'll learn one, the two critical elements of trust building. |
| 0:39.6 | Two, the secret to dealing with difficult people. |
| 0:42.4 | And three, how to navigate tricky conversations. |
| 0:45.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to pieces |
| 0:48.8 | that we reference here, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 786. |
| 0:54.6 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out our gold nugget email |
| 0:58.3 | summaries. |
| 0:59.3 | Here we provide a quick summary right up of the actionable wisdom that each guest shares |
| 1:04.8 | an email you can read in about two or three minutes goes to your inbox. |
| 1:08.7 | And it also unlocks the vaults of all 786 of these such summaries. |
| 1:14.1 | Those are gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:16.7 | Now here's Eric story Eric Barker is the author of the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:19.6 | best seller barking up the wrong tree, which has sold over half a million copies |
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