The Science of Effective Communication | Charles Duhigg
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The four rules for a meaningful conversation, when to be vulnerable, and how to form the habits of becoming a supercommunicator.
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His new book is called Supercommunicators.
In this episode we talk about:
- How he defines super communicator
- The four rules for a meaningful conversation
- How and when to deploy vulnerability
- How to transform shallow questions in deep ones
- The fast friends procedure
- And how to form the habits of becoming a supercommunicator
Related Episodes:
- Dan Clurman and Mudita Nisker on communication
- Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence and optimal performance
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| 0:54.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello. Hello everybody how we doing. Whether you like it or not if you want to get |
| 1:18.3 | stuff done in this world you need to be able to communicate effectively with other human beings. |
| 1:25.0 | If you want to sell somebody something, if you want them to do something for you, |
| 1:28.0 | if you want to convince them to see things your way, |
| 1:31.0 | you usually need to be able to talk about it. This is true at work, |
| 1:35.2 | with your family, and pretty much anytime you come in contact with another Homo sapien. |
| 1:40.6 | The stakes are high here, as I have said a million times. We are social creatures |
| 1:44.4 | we evolved for interpersonal contact and if you can't do that effectively you are |
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