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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg. Duhigg’s research-grounded account of what distinguishes the conversations that produce genuine felt connection from those that merely transfer information provides the most practically applicable available account of connection as a learnable communicative skill. His analysis of the synchronisation mechanism — the process through which two people align their neurological states in conversation and produce the felt sense of genuine connection — maps directly onto the Gottman bid-for-connection research and the Siegel resonance circuit mechanism, and his account of the three conversation types and the specific practices that produce synchronisation within each provides the most concrete available guide to the social fitness skills the research identifies as most developable. For the founder who wants to understand precisely what they would practise differently if they were applying the social fitness framework to the conversations that constitute their relational life, Supercommunicators provides the most specific and most evidence-grounded answer available.