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I think that it's better to think of language as a parade that either you're watching, or frankly, that you're in, especially because the people are never going to stand still. MCWHORTER: Yes, that's exactly true. Please note that your continued use of the RadioPublic services following the posting of such changes will be deemed an acceptance of this update. So the question for us has been, how do we build these ideas? How come you aren't exactly the way you were 10 years ago? You can't touch time. If a transcript is available, youll see a Transcript button which expands to reveal the full transcript. But is that true when it comes to the pursuit of happiness? Think back to the last time someone convinced you to do something you didn't want to do, or to spend money you didn't want to spend. We're speaking today with cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky about language. Many of us rush through our lives, chasing goals and just trying to get everything done. For example, if you take seeds and put them in the ground, that's one thing. In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back one of our favorite conversations, with linguist Deborah Tannen. So some languages don't have number words. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. You-uh (ph). How big are the differences that we're talking about, and how big do you think the implications are for the way we see the world? Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. Hidden Brain Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam Subscribe Visit website Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our. Evaluating Changes in Motivation, Values, and Well-being, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004. Marcus Butt/Getty Images/Ikon Images Hidden Brain Why Nobody Feels Rich by Shankar Vedantam , Parth Shah , Tara Boyle , Rhaina Cohen September 14, 2020 If you've ever flown in economy class. You can't smell or taste time. In The Air We Breathe . It goes in this pile. 00:55:27 Hidden Brain Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button They believe that their language reflects the true structure of the world. So when the perfect woman started writing him letters, it seemed too good to be true. No matter how hard you try to feel happier, you end up back where. Stay with us. You also see huge differences in other domains like number. And the way you speak right is not by speaking the way that people around you in your life speak, but by speaking the way the language is as it sits there all nice and pretty on that piece of paper where its reality exists. And we're all going to have feelings like that. Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button. Maybe they like the same kinds of food, or enjoy the same hobbies. BORODITSKY: I had this wonderful opportunity to work with my colleague Alice Gaby in this community called Pormpuraaw in - on Cape York. And it's just too much of an effort, and you can't be bothered to do it, even though it's such a small thing. Maybe it's even less than a hundred meters away, but you just can't bring yourself to even throw your coat on over your pajamas and put your boots on and go outside and walk those hundred meters because somehow it would break the coziness. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. When the con was exposed, its victims defended the con artists. VEDANTAM: The word chair is feminine in Italian. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. The Effective Negotiator Part 1: The Behavior of Successful Negotiators and The Effective Negotiator Part 2: Planning for Negotiations, by Neil Rackham and John Carlisle, Journal of European Industrial Training, 1978. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose on Apple Podcasts 51 min You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose Hidden Brain Social Sciences Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. We recommend movies or books to a friend. It is the very fabric, the very core of your experience. You know, I was trying to stay oriented because people were treating me like I was pretty stupid for not being oriented, and that hurt. It's exactly how old English turned into modern English. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. And so what that means is if someone was sitting facing south, they would lay out the story from left to right. So I think it's an incredible tragedy that we're losing all of this linguistic diversity, all of this cultural diversity because it is human heritage. Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. I think it's a really fascinating question for future research. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy thats all around us. VEDANTAM: I'm Shankar Vedantam. Today, we explore the many facets of this idea. Which pile do you go in, right? And I was telling this person about someone I knew back in America. VEDANTAM: For more HIDDEN BRAIN, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. VEDANTAM: My guest today is - well, why don't I let her introduce herself? And so he suggested it might be the case that the arbitrarily assigned grammatical genders are actually changing the way people think about these days of the week and maybe all kinds of other things that are named by nouns. And I thought, wow, first of all, it would be almost impossible to have a conversation like that in English where you hadn't already revealed the gender of the person because you have to use he or she. These relationships can help you feel cared for and connected. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. This week, we kick off a month-long series we're calling Happiness 2.0. Those sorts things tend to start with women. When language was like that, of course it changed a lot - fast - because once you said it, it was gone. If you missed it, Think back to the last time someone convinced you to do something you didn't want to do, or to spend money you didn't want to spend. Today in our Happiness 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite episode from 2020. So you may start with moving your southwest leg in, but then you have to move your northeast leg out. When we come back, we dig further into the way that gender works in different languages and the pervasive effects that words can play in our lives. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? It's not something that you typically go out trying to do intentionally. VEDANTAM: I understand that there's also been studies looking at how artists who speak different languages might paint differently depending on how their languages categorize, you know, concepts like a mountain or death. VEDANTAM: How the languages we speak shape the way we think and why the words we use are always in flux. If you, grew up speaking a language other than English, you probably reach for words in your. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way, and you can just - it rolls off the tongue, and you can just throw it. But what happens when these feelings catch up with us? But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. I'm Shankar Vedantam. What do you do for christmas with your family? : A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success, by Lawrence S. Krieger and Kennon M. Sheldon, George Washington Law Review, 2015. MCWHORTER: You could have fun doing such a thing. This is Hidden Brain. They are ways of seeing the world. I'm shankar Vedantam in the 2002 rom com. He's also the author of the book, "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". Hidden Brain. You can find all Hidden Brain episodes on our website. 00:51:58 - We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. Those are quirks of grammar literally in stone. Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Thank you! Whats going on here? Imagine this. Shankar Vedantam, host of the popular podcast "Hidden Brain" has been reporting on human behavior for decades. So you can't see time. GEACONE-CRUZ: It describes this feeling so perfectly in such a wonderfully packaged, encapsulated way. Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live, by Kennon M. Sheldon, 2022. If you dont see any jobs posted there, feel free to send your resume and cover letter to [emailprotected] and well keep your materials on hand for future openings on the show. VEDANTAM: Lera now tries to understand languages spoken all over the world. Athletic Scholarships are Negatively Associated with Intrinsic Motivation for Sports, Even Decades Later: Evidence for Long-Term Undermining, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Arlen C. Moller, Motivation Science, 2020. MCWHORTER: Those are called contronyms, and literally has become a new contronym. Another possibility is that it's a fully integrated mind, and it just incorporates ideas and distinctions from both languages or from many languages if you speak more than two. What techniques did that person use to persuade you? It should just be, here is the natural way, then there's some things that you're supposed to do in public because that's the way it is, whether it's fair or not. Subscribe to the Hidden Brain Podcast on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode. And they have correlated this with gender features in the language, just like the ones you were talking about. So - but if I understand correctly, I would be completely at sea if I visited this aboriginal community in Australia because I have often absolutely no idea where I am or where I'm going. If you're studying a new language, you might discover these phrases not. I'm Shankar Vedantam. In the second episode of our "Relationships 2.0" series, psychologist Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. ADAM COLE, BYLINE: (Singing) You put your southwest leg in, and you shake it all about. al, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2008. BORODITSKY: And when they were trying to act like Wednesday, they would act like a woman BORODITSKY: Which accords with grammatical gender in Russian. He. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #16: Not figuratively, it's literally MCWHORTER: Yeah. In this favorite 2021 episode, psychologistAdam Grantpushes back against the benefits of certainty, and describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs. Special thanks to Adam Cole, who wrote and performed our rendition of "The Hokey Pokey." So to give you a very quick wrap-up is that some effects are big, but even when effects aren't big, they can be interesting or important for other reasons - either because they are very broad or because they apply to things that we think are really important in our culture. BORODITSKY: Well, I think it's a terrible tragedy. Just go to the magnifying glass in the top right corner, click on it, and use the search function at the top of the page. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. And then if you are going to be that elliptical, why use the casual word get? So for example, you might not imagine the color shirt that he's wearing or the kinds of shoes that he's wearing. So there are these wonderful studies by Alexander Giora where he asked kids learning Finnish, English and Hebrew as their first languages basically, are you a boy or a girl? There are different ways to be a psychologist. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #7: (Speaking foreign language). So it's easy to think, oh, I could imagine someone without thinking explicitly about what they're wearing. Follow on Apple, Google or Spotify. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) If you're so upset about it, maybe you can think of a way to help her. But might we allow that there's probably a part of all human beings that wants to look down on somebody else. Subscribe: iOS | Android | Spotify | RSS | Amazon | Stitcher Latest Episodes: Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill. And what's cool about languages, like the languages spoken in Pormpuraaw, is that they don't use words like left and right, and instead, everything is placed in cardinal directions like north, south, east and west. But that can blind us to a very simple source of joy that's all around us. in your textbooks but when you're hanging out with friends. Many of us rush through our days, weeks, and lives, chasing goals, and just trying to get everything done. Stay with us. He's a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the author of the book "Words On The Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally).". VEDANTAM: There are phrases in every language that are deeply evocative and often, untranslatable. BORODITSKY: Yeah. It's as if you saw a person - I'm not going to say at 4 because then the person is growing up, and if I use that analogy then it seems like I'm saying that language grows up or it moves toward something or it develops. And dead languages never change, and some of us might prefer those. This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit a favorite episode exploring what this culture means Jesse always wanted to fall in love. I said, you know, this weird thing happened. That kind of detail may not appear. And I would really guess that in a few decades men will be doing it, too. Cholera and malnourishment await Somalis fleeing . L. Gable, et. BORODITSKY: The way to say my name properly in Russian is (speaking foreign language), so I don't make people say that. And as odd as that sounds, I can guarantee you if you watch any TV show with women under a certain age or if you just go out on an American street and listen, you'll find that that's a new kind of exclamatory particle. Researcher Elizabeth Dunn helps us map out the unexpected ways we can find joy and happiness in our everyday lives. And so I was trying to keep track of which way is which. Additional Resources Book: podcast pages. And very competent adults of our culture can't do that. Many of us believe that hard work and persistence are the key to achieving our goals. Go behind the scenes, see what Shankar is reading and find more useful resources and links. We'd say, oh, well, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales or whatever. Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. How do you balance the imperative of teaching correct usage? And there are consequences for how people think about events, what they notice when they see accidents. Sometimes, life can feel like being stuck on a treadmill.

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