Kobo Blog – 2.13.24
Charles Duhigg’s 2012 breakout bestseller The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business put his writing in front of an audience few Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists have the opportunity to address: readers of self-help books. But Duhigg has always been after more than merely regurgitating a mélange of studies to arrive at “tips & tricks” or “takeaways.” He’s a journalist at heart, and his interest seems to always lie in finding out how things work so he can explain it to a broad audience. His new book is Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, and while the subtitle makes the kind of promise that the self-help category thrives on, the book is actually a study of how—at a time of communication on an unprecedented scale—some people seem born with the knowledge of how to make themselves heard while also demonstrating a mastery of hearing what others are saying. He dissects the currents of common conversations to focus on how these verbal virtuosi demonstrate mastery over each of them, and what kind of impacts they have on their interlocutors—not the least of which is making them feel heard.
Source: 90 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out February 13 – 26, 2024