Introducing Supercommunicators

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

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In a new miniseries inspired by Charles Duhigg’s bestseller, the former host of Slate’s How To! podcast sits down with psychologists, social scientists, and even a Hollywood writer to explore how to ask the right questions, communicate without words, and find meaningful connections in our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Carvel Wallace, one of the hosts of How To.
0:03.6	Our show's founding host, the writer Charles Duhigg, recently published a fascinating new bestseller called Super Communicators, How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.
0:14.6	And now it's a new slate miniseries that dives into how to have better conversations and the neuroscience behind how we connect with one another, and much more.
0:24.0	In the first episode, psychologist Nick Epley tells Charles about a set of 36 questions
0:28.9	designed to turn complete strangers into friends.
0:32.8	And some of those questions get a little personal.
0:35.8	The very first time I did this was at a conference.
0:39.3	These were all like C-suite executives.
0:42.3	Tell them in just a minute, I'm going to pair you up with another person,
0:45.3	and I'm going to have you discuss these questions that are up here on the screen.
0:50.3	They include things like the last time you cried in front of another person.
0:53.3	As soon as I put those up, a guy in the front row shouts out,
0:57.8	oh shit. And you could sort of feel the whole room just groan.
1:03.4	Find out what happened next in the next episode of Super Communicators with Charles Duhigg
1:07.5	right here in the how-to feed starting February 22nd.

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