The Lost Art of Connection: How to Be a Supercommunicator | Charles Duhigg
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Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
How good are you at really communicating? In a world drowning in words, how do you make your words matter?
I'm not talking about small talk or working a room or the gift of gab. I'm talking about the kind of communication that works on a deeper level – a level where we truly connect, challenge, grow with, and inspire each other.
Back on the podcast this week is Charles Duhigg, who's spent a career in journalism diving into what makes humans do what they do – and today, he’s here to talk about what it takes to be a ‘Supercommunicator’.
Charles is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times and the New Yorker, and he's written two best-sellers about personal excellence that mesh neuroscience with great storytelling and practical tools: The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better.
Charles’ newest book is Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. And this one's a little different -- instead of focusing on how we can maximize our own personal abilities, this one is all about how to be extraordinary in our interactions with each other – the ability to genuinely engage, to echo emotions, and to create space for real, heartfelt exchanges.
Charles says communication is humanity's superpower, and lately that ability has become strained. There’s evidence of that everywhere -- in politics, on social media, online -- but with the right tools and practice, we can get it back.
In our conversation today, we unravel how to reclaim our conversational depth in a world buzzing with superficial interactions.
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| 0:00.0 | Homo sapiens superpower is communication. |
| 0:05.0 | Every conversation is made up of multiple kinds of conversation. |
| 0:09.7 | If two people or more are having different kinds of conversations at the same time. |
| 0:14.0 | They won't hear each other and most of those different kinds of conversations they fall into |
| 0:17.3 | one of three big buckets. |
| 0:18.8 | Why do you say that it's a superpower? |
| 0:20.5 | I think we're terrible at it. |
| 0:21.8 | You're exactly right. Much of communication is not as good as it could be. |
| 0:25.0 | And there's three things that if you just practice them a little bit, they're going to become habits. |
| 0:29.0 | It's literally just a set of simple skills. |
| 0:32.0 | Charles, you brought the heat again. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am your host Dr Michael Jervay by |
| 0:48.7 | trade and training a high performance psychologist. A simple question for you today. How skilled are you at communicating in a world |
| 0:57.5 | that is drowning in words how do you make your words matter? Returning to the podcast this week is Charles Duheg, |
| 1:06.0 | a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist |
| 1:08.0 | and author of bestsellers like The Power of Habit |
| 1:11.0 | and Smarter, faster, better. |
| 1:14.2 | She's got a new book, super communicators, |
| 1:16.6 | how to unlock the secret language of connection. |
| 1:20.0 | And this one's a little different. |
| 1:21.2 | Instead of focusing on how we can maximize our own personal abilities, |
| 1:25.6 | this one is all about how to be extraordinary |
| 1:28.8 | in our interactions with each other, |
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