Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How does someone become a great communicator? Sharon McMahon talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg about his latest book, Super Communicators. He explains being a strong communicator isn’t some magical, innate talent but a skill that anyone can learn. How do top executives talk to others? How can you deal with people who insult or talk down to you? And what can you say to someone to tells you to calm down? Charles breaks down the three types of conversations and shares tips on how you can improve your relationships through better, clearer communication. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.0	Hello, friends. Welcome. Delighted to have you with me today. My guest is Super Communicator Charles Duhigg. He has a book out called Surprise, Super Communicators. And gosh, I really think this conversation is going to be illuminating, eye-opening. We think that some people are born, great communicators. And Charles says that that is absolutely not true. That is
1:12.4	100% a learned skill and we can all learn to be better communicators and have better, deeper
1:19.6	connections with people we care about. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where
1:26.3	it gets interesting. I have been wanting to talk about super communicators for months, and I'm so glad we are finally
1:33.9	able to make this happen.
1:35.2	Thanks for having me.
1:36.2	This is a real treat.
1:37.8	Communication is something that people feel a tremendous amount of anxiety around.
1:42.0	They feel like I don't know how to talk to my family and friends.
1:45.1	Every conversation I have with them, I end up leaving angry. Every Thanksgiving dinner is like,
1:50.0	oh, no, not them again. The entire communication discourse feels fraught with landmines. Like you can go
1:57.7	wrong at any moment. And I'm wondering, first of all, is our challenge with
2:04.7	communication? Is this new in human history from your perspective? Has the internet ruined us,
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