845: The Surprising Power of Shutting Up with Dan Lyons

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Decisions, Collaboration, Wins, Mockaitis, Mental Health, Education, Speaking, Success, Interview, Fun, Career, Business, Development, Health & Fitness, Winning, Careers, Training, Thinking, Sharpening, Skills, Writing, Selfhelp, Self-improvement, Meaning, Money

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dan Lyons shows why and how silence can be your greatest superpower.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How conversations dramatically influence overall health and happiness.

2) How to tell if you’re talking too much.

3) How pauses wield enormous power.

Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep845 for clickable versions of the links below.

— ABOUT DAN —

Dan Lyons is the author of Disrupted: My Adventures in the Startup Bubble, a New York Times bestselling memoir, and Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. He was also a writer for the hit HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. As a journalist, he spent a decade covering Silicon Valley for Forbes, ran tech coverage at Newsweek, and contributed to Fortune, the New York Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

• Book: STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

• Website: DanLyons.io

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: 1984 by George Orwell

• Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Book: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine

• Book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to episode 845 with Dan Lyons.
0:23.9	We've had a lot of episodes about how you can speak better, be more influential, more
0:28.4	persuasive.
0:29.4	Click in the right words.
0:30.4	Well, Dan Lyons coming at it for a totally different perspective, which is just shutting
0:35.8	up and why and how a silence can be one of your greatest superpowers.
0:40.6	You'll learn one, how conversations dramatically influence our overall health and happiness.
0:46.0	Two, how to tell if you're talking too much.
0:48.7	And three, how pauses can wield enormous power.
0:52.8	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to bits that
0:55.5	we've mentioned here, please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com slash EP 845.
0:59.9	Now here's a little bit about Dan.
1:02.1	Dan Lyons is the author of Disrupted My Adventures in the Startup Bubble, a New York
1:07.2	Best Times Selling Memorial, and Labrats.
1:09.6	House of the Con Valley made work miserable for the rest of us.
1:13.2	He was also a writer for the hit HBO comedy series Siddha Con Valley.
1:17.4	As a journalist, he spent a decade covering Siddha Con Valley for Forbes, Rantech coverage
1:21.2	at Newsweek, and contributed to Fortune, New York Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, and The New
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from How to be Awesome at Your Job, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of How to be Awesome at Your Job and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.