Talk Your Book: How to be a Supercommunicator with Charles Duhigg

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🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by author Charles Duhigg to talk about his book, Supercommunicators. Find complete show notes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Check out the latest in financial blogger fashion at The Compound shop: https://www.idontshop.com Investing involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ The Compound Media, Incorporated, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
0:08.9	Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.
0:14.1	All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ridholt's wealth management.
0:20.4	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be the opinion of Ridholt's wealth management. This podcast is for
0:21.4	informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions.
0:26.2	Clients of Ridholt's wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in
0:30.1	this podcast. Mr. Charles Duhigg, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on.
0:38.3	This is a treat.
0:39.4	For us, too.
0:40.3	So for those who are not familiar with Charles' work, he is a journalist.
0:44.0	He worked for the New York Times.
0:45.0	He's an award-winning journalist.
0:46.1	He won a Pulitzer Prize.
0:47.0	No big deal.
0:48.0	He was at The New Yorker Magazine or Still Wites in The New Yorker magazine, has wrote several books, The Science of Better,
0:54.6	that says newsletter, I should say, excuse me, the power of habit, super communicators,
0:59.5	which we're going to talk about today.
1:01.3	So, Charles, all right, I am not a super communicator.
1:04.4	I am not a natural speaker.
1:06.3	It took me years to get comfortable speaking into a microphone.
1:10.5	And as proof that I'm not a super communicator, I'm going to open with a terrible question.
1:14.3	Then we'll circle back into the book and the motivation on what people should learn from the familiar and sort of stuff.
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