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Feb 2024
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The Science of Effective Communication |...

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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 into deep ones
  • The fast friends procedure 
  • And how to form the habits of becoming a supercommunicator 

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