The power of super communication with Charles Duhigg | E1938
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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This Week in Startups is brought to you by…
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Todays show:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg joins Jason to discuss the different types of conversations (9:29), the role of humor (22:48), and they way conversation dynamics can shift (49:30).
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Timestamps (0:00) Charles Duhigg joins Jason to break down his latest publishing, Supercommunicators
(4:01) The importance of communication in startups and lessons from "The Power of Habit”
(8:06) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://www.linkedin.com/twist
(9:29) The role of communication in organizations and the different types of conversations
(21:30) Mantle - Get your first 12 months free at https://withmantle.com/twist
(22:48) Exploring the role of humor, laughter, and vulnerability in conversations
(30:06) Understanding gender and cultural differences in communication
(39:23) HubSpot - Be sure to check out the Million Dollar pitch competition from Hubspot for Startups & HubSpot Ventures. Apply now at https://www.hubspot.com/milliondollarpitch
(40:34) The role anecdotes have in conversation
(49:30) How the dynamic of the conversation shifts when someone has an ask
(1:01:35) The Harvard Study of Adult Development
(1:06:36) Closing remarks
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| 0:00.0 | How about you what's the most embarrassing thing you can you can remember? |
| 0:06.2 | Everybody's flying out from LA to Sundays, but I said you know what guys? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm gonna meet you there. I get on the flight I got a middle seat I go I'm exhausted |
| 0:16.7 | My friends are already there private jet blah blah blah put my bag up. I sit down in my middle seat, and I feel a weird sensation |
| 0:26.6 | like a crunching sound, then I feel wetness, |
| 0:29.3 | and then I feel heat, and then I jump up and I look down and there is a giant Starbucks cup and black coffee |
| 0:36.7 | steaming in my seat. Oh my God. And the woman in the window seat looks at me and |
| 0:41.0 | goes, oh were you sitting there? And I said, where your coffee was in my seat? And then I feel my ass is on |
| 0:49.1 | fucking fire. But the plane is taxing like now at this point. I run to the bathroom. I drop my draws. I see out of the corner of my eye. |
| 1:01.0 | My hasty white Irish ass is red. This is hot coffee ass is the name of this story. |
| 1:07.0 | This weekend startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. |
| 1:13.0 | A business is only as strong as its people, |
| 1:16.0 | and every hire matters. |
| 1:18.0 | Go to LinkedIn.com slash twist |
| 1:21.0 | to post your first job for free. |
| 1:23.4 | Terms and conditions apply. |
| 1:25.4 | Mantel, the AI-powered Equity Management Platform |
| 1:29.8 | designed for modern founders and operators. |
| 1:33.0 | Get your first 12 months free at with mantle.com slash twist. |
| 1:39.0 | And HubSpot. |
| 1:41.0 | If you're fundraising, be sure to check out the million dollar pitch competition from HubSpot for startups and HubSpot ventures. |
| 1:49.0 | Apply now at HubSpot.com slash million dollar pitch. |
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