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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Our brains have evolved to make us good at communication. Communication is |
0:04.9 | Homo sapiens superpower. It is the thing that sets us apart from every other |
0:08.6 | species and allowed us to build families and villages and towns, |
0:12.6 | means that I can learn something |
0:14.0 | and I can pass it to you without having to experience |
0:17.1 | the same hardships I had to learn it. |
0:19.3 | Different cultures definitely have different norms. |
0:22.4 | But underlying them is the same basic impulse |
0:25.1 | which is the impulse is to connect to have a real conversation not to just you |
0:29.2 | talk about the weather which is kind of boring. Charles Duhig is a best-selling author |
0:33.6 | and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
0:36.0 | who's famous for his work on habits, productivity, |
0:39.6 | and the science of human behavior. |
0:42.3 | His insights offer a way to better connect with the people |
0:45.1 | around us and understand why conversations work. |
0:48.8 | We're all born to be supercommunicators and at various times we are supercommunicators |
0:52.3 | right there's always someone in our life we know exactly what to stay And at various times, we are super communicators, right? |
0:52.5 | There's always someone in our life, |
0:54.0 | we know exactly what to say when we go into the meeting |
0:56.2 | to win everyone over, or a friend calls, |
0:58.4 | and we know exactly what to say to them. |
1:00.0 | But then at other times it falls apart, |
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