Learning English with Human Beans

#42 – Do the words you use change how you feel?


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Does your morning “meh” hide a much more specific emotion?

In this episode, Alice and Marc explore Emotional Granularity and discover why the precision of your vocabulary acts as a real biological brake on your amygdala (the center of fear).

From Wittgenstein's philosophy (“The limits of my language are the limits of my world”) to untranslatable emotions such as the Russian Toska or the Portuguese Saudade, learn why “to name is to tame” (Name it to tame it) and how enriching your inner dictionary can transform your reality.

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