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Implications

• You can only believe what you have ‣ to say.
• Concepts like economic growth are once in a positive public zeitgest self-reinforce or become a fundamental cultural assumption. GDP Alternatives [measuring holistic or natural success]

Eclectic Notes

The SapirWhorf hypothesis theorizes that thoughts and behavior are determined (or are at least partially influenced) by language.

• William James speaks about the way categories shape and define both what we think and see. [PWald understands his work]

Amazing TED talk saying that language defines what we think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

• Lera Boroditsky — some cultures are extraordinarily well directed because of their language focused on it. As a result, time is also locked onto the landscape
• languages struggle with counting/comparison because they do not have languages
• English speakers assign more culpability (e.g. broken vases). Spanish speakers remember the intention more but not who did it (e.g. it was broken, but not who by)
  • stop blaming, address the situation

Implications

• the most powerful aspect of communication is framing. Framing drives belief.
  • that is relevant in x, x, x, x, ideas
• If one culture couldn’t discover algebra because of their language missing number words, I wonder what our language misses and what we have yet to discover due to that.
• language defines culpability whether it’s active/passive
• We can create new languages which give us more ways to think