Introduction

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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