173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What happens when three psychologists walk into a magic show? What’s Angela’s problem with the word “talent”? And why does LeBron James refer to himself in the third person?

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0:00.0	Who's this sucker?
0:03.0	Go find this sucker.
0:05.0	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:07.0	I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.0	Today on the show, how much does the way things are worded influence our behavior?
0:16.0	They're manipulating what you're thinking about. All right, Angela. Hello, today we have a question from one Josiah Shields.
0:39.0	Josiah says, Greetings from England. I recently came upon the No Stupid Questions
0:44.2	podcast and would love to hear your thoughts on the importance of
0:47.3	semantics, especially in relation to the idea of priming as written about in the great Danny Kahneman's thinking fast and slow.
0:55.6	He's so great, Danny Kahneman.
0:57.4	He is and so is Josiah from England.
0:59.9	And so is Josiah from England, exactly.
1:02.0	Josiah continued his question, how greatly do the specific words used in our speech affect its
1:07.8	reception and the reactions of others?
1:10.5	Consentances with the same overall meaning receive vastly different responses
1:14.9	depending on the exact words employed within them. If so, how can we utilize this to
1:19.6	communicate more effectively? Now I love Josiah's question because I've spent a lot of time in
1:25.8	tech but I briefly spent time in politics as well and people spend so much time on
1:31.7	the exact word when they're trying to get things across or things like that.
1:35.4	Seems though like Josiah is basically asking us two questions.
1:38.5	One is on the role of priming and the other on word choice and its impact that said why don't we start with
1:45.6	priming why don't you as the great shall I call you a disciple of Danny
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