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Good Life Project

How to Connect Quickly & Deeply With Anyone | Charles Duhigg

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Living Well, Midlife, Education, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Self-improvement, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What if you could communicate effortlessly with anyone, instantly establishing trust and connection? According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg, author of the new book Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, the most compelling communicators don't possess any magical talents. They've simply mastered the hidden rules that govern how we connect through conversation.


Learn techniques to identify the 3 types of exchanges occurring simultaneously in every interaction. Discover how vulnerability and "deep listening" forge bonds of trust. Gain insight into dissolving conflict through empathy. Whether one-on-one or on stage, communication can change lives. This research-backed episode reveals the science of forging genuine understanding.


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the ability to communicate with each other, the ability to trust each other and build trust.

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All of us know how to do this.

0:06.5

It's literally an instinct that we're born with because of evolution.

0:11.6

You know this. You know this on an intuitive level and the more you listen to your intuition,

0:17.0

the more you let go and trust yourself in a conversation, the better that conversation is going to go and the more you're going to connect.

0:25.0

So have you ever just marvel that someone who can seemingly walk into any room and instantly connect with every person there.

0:35.2

What special gift do they have that makes communications seem effortless for them but so difficult

0:40.1

for others?

0:41.1

They'd be including you.

0:42.1

I know that's been me struggling at times. My

0:44.7

guest today, Charles Doohig, reveals that these super-communicators as he

0:48.6

describes him, they don't possess any magical abilities. In fact, unlocking the secret language of

0:54.1

connection is a learnable skill as Charles lays out in his new book super communicators

0:58.6

how to unlock the secret language of connection. Charles is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of

1:04.1

New York Times Best Sellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His books

1:08.4

have been translated into over 40 languages and he explains that beneath every conversation.

1:14.2

There are actually three different types happening at once, the practical, the emotional, and the

1:19.0

social.

1:20.2

And the key is identifying which type of conversation is taking place, and then matching that same

1:26.4

wavelength. When we get stuck at cross purposes, not truly hearing each other, it's because we've lost

1:32.1

sync. And by learning simple but powerful

1:34.4

techniques to tune into the right frequency we can transform even difficult

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