#909 - Charles Duhigg - The Secret Habits Of Supercommunicators

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Charles Duhigg is a journalist, speaker, and author. Effective communication is the foundation of any strong relationship. While some excel at it naturally, others struggle to express themselves and often get misunderstood. So, what are the best tips to become a master communicator and elevate your communication skills? Expect to learn what most people get wrong when it comes to understanding communication, the biggest differences between communicators and supercommunicators, how introverts and extroverts communicate differently, the best and worst ways to communicate as a couple, how to be more charismatic, how to get better as making good decisions and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D, and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do most people get wrong when it comes to understanding communication, do you think?
0:05.1	I think what most people get wrong is they think that it's something that should just happen naturally, right?
0:09.5	That it's something that the best communicators are people who don't think about communication.
0:14.6	But what we've discovered is exactly the opposite.
0:16.9	If you know someone who is just fantastic at connecting with people, at communicating, and you go up and you ask them, you know, have you always been like this?
0:27.1	Inevitably, what they were going to tell you is no.
0:29.3	They'll say something like, when I was in high school, I had real trouble making friends.
0:33.0	And so I really had to like study how kids talk to each other or or my parents got divorced when I was a kid
0:38.8	and I had to be the peacemaker between them. The thing about communication is it's just a set of
0:44.1	skills. It's not even particularly complicated skills. It's a set of skills that anyone can learn.
0:48.6	Anyone can become a super communicator. But you have to realize that they're skills and you have
0:53.6	to practice them a little bit and you have to commit to thinking about how you communicate to get better at it.
0:59.6	I suppose communication is quite tightly tied to our sense of self.
1:03.8	You know, it's our expression of who we are.
1:06.6	So when we look at somebody that's a good or a bad communicator, that's because they're a good or a bad person.
1:13.0	What is the sense of self-worth comes through as well?
1:16.1	Absolutely.
1:16.7	I mean, that happens a lot.
1:17.8	And, of course, you can be a bad person and be a great communicator.
1:21.9	You can be a good person and not be a great communicator.
1:25.3	But you're exactly right that communication is very central to not only how we think
1:29.4	about ourselves, but how we move through the world.
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