Charles Duhigg

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

Charles Duhigg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Something You Should Know · The Power of Noticing What Matters & Mastering Meaningful Conversation-SYSK Choice · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

don't have to have conversations all the time right look and that's a that's an important part of this is deciding when you want to have a conversation and when when i turn to my kids and i say i'd like to have a conversation about your rooms i'm not actually asking for a conversation about their rooms right i want to tell them that they need to go clean their rooms and i think that that's important is deciding when we want to have these conversations

One of the stories in the book is about this CIA officer who joined the CIA and he was just terrible, terrible at recruiting overseas spies.

And that was his job.

So he gets sent to Europe after trying to get into the CIA for years.

And he's basically going to get fired because he does such a bad job of this.

And then eventually he meets this young woman who is on vacation.

She works for the foreign ministry in her government back in the Middle East.

And he gets to know her and they become friends.

And eventually he says, I'm with the CIA.

Would you come work for us?

And she just panics.

She says, I can't believe, no, they kill people in my country for that.

I can't believe you didn't tell me.

This is so dangerous.

And he tells his bosses that he couldn't recruit her.

And his bosses are like, look, you are definitely going to get fired.

We already told people that you were going to recruit her.

So he has this one last dinner with her.

And during that dinner,

instead of trying to charm her instead of trying to persuade her he just decides to have an honest conversation she was really disappointed about what's going on she's disappointed she's about to go back to her home country and and and feels powerless and he told her how powerless he feels is like this guy who's supposed to recruit spies in europe and he's terrible at the job that he just feels feels like he can't do it at all they matched each other and in that matching

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