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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: How to Have the Hardest Conversations—in Marriage, Politics, and Life
Description: Life is a series of conversations. Our relationships, friendships, marriages, breakups, makeups, hirings, promotions, and firings are mostly the story of two people talking. And many of these conversations are hard or uncomfortable. Sometimes we spend years refusing to be honest with the people we know the best because we’re afraid of telling them how we feel. What if we all had such confidence in our own powers of communication and understanding that we didn’t fear these hard conversations at all? What if we welcomed them?Charles Duhigg, the author of 'The Power of Habit,' ha...