About this episode

Charles Duhigg discusses the science of conversation and connection from his book Super Communicators.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Duhigg breaks down the science of conversation and connection from his book Super Communicators. He explains why 80% of our conversations naturally align, how to use looping for understanding during conflict, and why super communicators ask 10-20x more questions than average. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Srinivas Rao

Guest: Charles Duhigg

Topics covered

• communication
• conversation
• conflict resolution
• questioning techniques
• social science

Keywords

• communication
• conversation science
• super communicators
• looping
• questions

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Super Communicators

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