Charles Duhigg

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1,650 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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And so then the question becomes, OK, so so what is it?

And and we're living through this golden age of understanding communication because of advances in neuroimaging and data analytics.

And so now we know what has to happen in a conversation for people to feel close to each other.

And that's the answer to the loneliness epidemic is powering people.

I think there's two things.

First of all, just the internet has made it easy.

Like you can stay in your house now, right?

Whereas before it was more boring.

So that's part of it.

But I think the other thing is exactly what you just said, which is,

People don't know what the first step is, right?

It used to be that you were in public school in America and they taught you how to have conversations.

There was classes.

Debate club.

Debate club, home ec, right?

They would send young women off to finishing schools where basically you learn to be a conversationalist.

I'm not saying we should return to those days,

But it was something that people saw as a virtue.

That's teaching social skills.

That's exactly right.

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