Going Deep with Charles Duhigg on Choice and Context
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the second episode of our "Shook by a Book" series, Kelly connects with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg about a century-old book assigned to him in college which influenced his thinking and life choices. Charles is the author of Supercommunicators, and The Power of Habit. (He and Kelly actually share the same editor at Random House.) This book Charlie picked, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, gets at the psychological need for religion, the power of choice and how context influences our behavior. It also serves as a springboard for Kelly and Charlie to go deep on their careers, families and life decisions.
Special thanks to The Teagle Foundation for their generous support of this series.
This episode was recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about the transformative power of reading. |
| 0:11.3 | This is the second of a five-part series called Shook by a book |
| 0:14.9 | where we talk to big-time American thinkers about a book they were assigned in |
| 0:19.3 | high school or college that really changed their thinking in some fundamental way. |
| 0:24.9 | My thought partner today is Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charles Doohig. |
| 0:29.7 | You might know him from his New York Times bestseller, Power of Habit or from his writing in the New Yorker. |
| 0:35.8 | Today he's here to reflect on the impact that one book had on him many, many years ago |
| 0:41.6 | when he left his nine siblings behind in New Mexico and made his way |
| 0:46.1 | across the country to start college. So join me for Kelly Corrigan Wonders and my |
| 0:51.6 | conversation with writer Charles Dewhick. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. Today's episode is the second in our |
| 1:09.6 | Shook by a book series where I'm talking with Great American |
| 1:12.8 | thinkers about a transformational reading experience. |
| 1:16.6 | My conversation partner today is Charles Doohig. |
| 1:19.6 | Charlie is the author of the New York Times bestseller, |
| 1:22.2 | The Power of Habit. |
| 1:23.1 | He also wrote Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators, which just came out this year. |
| 1:28.4 | He currently writes for the New Yorker and is here today to talk with me about a very old fascinating book, |
| 1:35.0 | the varieties of religious experience by William James. |
| 1:39.0 | Let me tell you, this is a very dense, very heady book, |
| 1:42.0 | but I am actually thrilled that he picked it. |
| 1:45.2 | It's deep and meaningful and inspired thinking. |
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