Grace Beverley

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Working Hard with Grace Beverley · How to have better conversations (that add true value to your life) · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And now I notice a marked difference when I go to a dinner or whatever it might be and I don't actually know the person until matched

terms of being able to find common ground in terms of being able to find discussion points rather than just constantly asking little questions about the other person's life in that kind of small talk way and it is led to so many opportunities and also makes the experience more enjoyable like i think we find socializing less enjoyable now because we're not actually as good at it so we keep our circles small we talk majority on social media i don't think it's good for us matched

I guess with that less-than-optimistic picture in mind, let me take you through the expert framework that I found super useful in improving my own conversation skills. matched

It comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Charles Duhigg, who wrote a book called Super Communicators. matched

And if you've been around these parts a while, you might recognize his name. matched

It is the same Charles Duhigg from the Habit Loop episode. matched

And his research on communication is some of the most practically useful stuff that I have come across. matched

And he actually has an amazing TED Talk that I'm going to link in my newsletter this week. matched

I would really, really recommend you watch it. matched

So it's very opening on all of this and a good conversation starter in itself. matched

Duhigg's big idea for sorting our communication basically is something that he calls the matching principle. matched

He argues that every conversation falls into one of three types. matched

there is the practical conversation which is about facts problems and logistics there is the emotional conversation which is about how someone feels and then there is the social conversation which is about society identity who we are to each other what we represent what role we're playing and according to Duhigg most communication breakdowns happen when two people are in different types of conversation without realizing it matched

So a classic example is your partner comes home and tells you about like a nightmare day at work and you go straight into problem solving mode. matched

You're trying to help. matched

You are suggesting solutions. matched

You're offering practical fixes. matched

But what they actually needed was an emotional conversation. matched

They didn't want answers. matched

They wanted to feel understood and heard and listened to. matched

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