Dan Lyons shows why and how silence can be your greatest superpower.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How conversations dramatically influence overall health and happiness.

2) How to tell if you’re talking too much.

3) How pauses wield enormous power.

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— ABOUT DAN —

Dan Lyons is the author of Disrupted: My Adventures in the Startup Bubble, a New York Times bestselling memoir, and Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. He was also a writer for the hit HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. As a journalist, he spent a decade covering Silicon Valley for Forbes, ran tech coverage at Newsweek, and contributed to Fortune, the New York Times, Wired, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker.

• Book: STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

• Website: DanLyons.io

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: 1984 by George Orwell

• Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Book: The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine

• Book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

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