Charles Duhigg
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first heard Jul 2026
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There was a study that was done at Harvard Business School where they asked students, before they had a conversation with a stranger, they asked all the students to write down three topics that they thought they could discuss.
This took like 10 seconds, right?
People would write down this weekend's game and what TV shows I watch, just little dumb throwaway things.
And then they went and they had conversations with strangers.
And everyone would put the card away.
Many of them would put it in their back pocket and
And the topics they had jotted down often never came up.
But the fact that they were there almost overwhelmingly made all of the participants feel less anxious about those discussions.
And as a result, those discussions went much, much better.
What we've learned is that it's not an inborn trait.
It's not that introverts can do it better than extroverts or vice versa.
Rather, there are some people who have just paid a little bit more attention to how they communicate with other people.
Yeah, absolutely.
So when we really connect with someone in conversation, when we are sort of on what you might refer to as the same wavelength, what's interesting is it's reflected in our bodies and our brains.
So right now we're having a conversation, even though we're separated by hundreds of miles.
And yet, if we could measure this, what we would see is that your eye pupils and my eye pupils are starting to dilate at the same rate.
Our breath patterns are starting to match each other.
Our heart rates are starting to match each other.
And even more importantly, if we could see inside our brains, what we would see is that my brainwaves are starting to look like your brainwaves and vice versa.
Within psychology and neurology, this is known as neural entrainment.
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