Revealing the Secrets of Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg

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Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this intriguing episode, Indre chats with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and renowned author of The Power of Habit and Smarter, Better, Faster, Charles Duhigg, to discuss his latest book “Supercommunicators”. Their conversation delves into he crucial role of effective communication in building meaningful relationships and enhancing quality of life. Duhigg shares insights from the Harvard Study of Adult Development, emphasizing the importance of close relationships for happiness and health as well as categorizes conversations into practical, emotional, and social types, explaining how understanding these can improve communication skills. Exploring further into the contents of Duhigg’s new book, they talk about the neuroscience behind communication and strategies for navigating difficult conversations. This episode is packed with practical advised and prize-winning insights and ideas for anyone who wants to learn how to improve their communication skills, build deeper relationships, and have more meaningful interactions with the people around them. Links: Inquiring Minds Homepage: https://inquiring.show/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information

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0:00.0	You and Betty and the nancy's and Bill's and Joes and James will find in the study of science
0:06.4	a richer, more rewarding life.
0:10.3	Hey, welcome to inquiring minds. I'm Indrae Viscontas. This is a podcast that explores the
0:15.9	space where science and society collide. We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.
0:22.6	There's more than why we see me.
0:29.6	Having conversations about the place that science has in society doesn't really make sense if those conversations aren't effective.
0:38.6	So what can we do to improve our communication skills?
0:42.3	I was delighted to find the book Super Communicators Cross My Desk a few weeks ago,
0:47.4	and so excited to talk to the author whose essays in The New Yorker, I have to say,
0:52.2	are among my favorite ways to pass a Sunday.
0:55.8	Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the best-selling book, The Power of Habit.
1:01.8	He's a graduate of Harvard's Business School and Yale College and winner of many awards, including from the National Academies of Science.
1:09.8	He was also a senior editor at the New York Times
1:12.0	and writes, of course, for the New Yorker. Charles, welcome to inquiring minds. Thanks for invited
1:18.1	me on. This is so much fun. So I want to start actually with the end of your book, because that in some
1:24.7	ways really put everything into focus for me. And I want to compare the two lives of, I think it was Camille and Marsden.
1:32.3	Am I getting that right from the long term Harvard study?
1:36.3	So tell us about them.
1:39.3	So the Harvard study of adult development is this kind of interesting project that began,
1:45.4	has been going on for almost 80 years now. And what these researchers at Harvard have done is
1:50.4	they've followed people throughout their lives. And initially when it started, the goal was
1:55.7	to try and figure out, like, what are the characteristics that make people successful and healthy? And they had
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