Charles Duhigg
speaker
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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They were able to form a connection, and she actually became not only a spy for him, but the best asset in the Middle East for the next 20 years.
But the reason why is because he decided to have a conversation with her.
And that doesn't mean that we have to have conversations all the time, but it does mean during those moments that are meaningful with our partners or our kids or coworkers...
Sometimes it's worth leaning a little bit in and having the real conversation because that's how we get closer.
Yeah, it's a really good question.
And to explain it, I should tell you sort of how I came to studying this, which is I would oftentimes come home from work and I would be upset, had a bad day, right?
And I would describe my day to my wife and my boss is a jerk or my coworkers don't appreciate me.
And she would very reasonably respond with advice.
She would say, why don't you take your boss out to lunch and you guys can get to know each other better.
But instead of hearing what she was saying, I would get even more upset.
And I'd be like, why aren't you supporting me?
You should be outraged on my behalf.
And then she would get upset because I was acting irrationally.
And I'm a professional communicator.
I'm a journalist.
And I couldn't figure out why this kept happening.
And so I went to all these experts and I said, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
And they said, well...
It's this thing called the matching principle.
And to understand how it works, you got to understand, we all think of a discussion as being about one thing, right?
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