Best Of: How To Connect With Anyone
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I'm Rufus Griscomb and this is the Next Big Idea. Today, unlocking the secret language of communication. There's a video I saw on YouTube recently. It's a clip a few years old from James Corden's late night show. His guest is Oprah, and he's nervous to talk with her for reasons you might not expect.
I don't know. My worry when I woke up this morning is I don't know if I can make it through this interview. without crying. Because you seem to have an unbelievable gear. Even now I can feel myself cheering up.
When did you first realize you had this power just to make people cry? Oprah says it started in the 70s in Baltimore. She'd been fired from her job anchoring the nightly news and given one co-hosting a local talk show. And that's where she discovered she had an uncanny ability to make people open up. When she asked them questions, they came to life, revealing surprising, deeply personal things about themselves.
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