How to Be Awesome at Your Job

845: The Surprising Power of Shutting Up with Dan Lyons

Mar 6, 2023

41:54

Episode guests

Dan Lyons

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Dangers of Information Overload

01:28

How to Deal with an Interrupting Person

01:06

The Power of Listening

01:31

How to Break the Habit of Interrupting

02:30

Introduction

2min

The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Inlessly Loud World

2min

Is It Pretty Much a Divide and Conquer?

2min

Do You Really Think the Author Meant That?

2min

The Power of Keep Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Loud World

5min

The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut

5min

The Power of Listening

2min

Keeping Your Mouth Shut Enables Great Listening

2min

How Do We Know if We're Talking Too Much?

2min

10.

How to Break the Habit of Interrupting

2min

11.

How to Use a Pause Strategically in Negotiation

2min

12.

Car Salesman - Four Seconds of Pause Makes People Unhappy

3min

13.

Are You Getting Engaged With Social Media?

2min

14.

How to Listen to People

3min

15.

What's Your Favorite Quote?

2min

16.

Are You a Believer in Notebooks?

2min

17.

Listen More Than Talk Less

3min

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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