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Today on the show, how much does the way things are worded influence our behavior?

They're manipulating what you're thinking about. All right, Angela. Hello, today we have a question from one Josiah Shields.

Josiah says, Greetings from England. I recently came upon the No Stupid Questions

podcast and would love to hear your thoughts on the importance of

semantics, especially in relation to the idea of priming as written about in the great Danny Kahneman's thinking fast and slow.

He's so great, Danny Kahneman.

He is and so is Josiah from England.

And so is Josiah from England, exactly.

Josiah continued his question, how greatly do the specific words used in our speech affect its

reception and the reactions of others?

Consentances with the same overall meaning receive vastly different responses

depending on the exact words employed within them. If so, how can we utilize this to

communicate more effectively? Now I love Josiah's question because I've spent a lot of time in

tech but I briefly spent time in politics as well and people spend so much time on

the exact word when they're trying to get things across or things like that.

Seems though like Josiah is basically asking us two questions.

One is on the role of priming and the other on word choice and its impact that said why don't we start with

priming why don't you as the great shall I call you a disciple of Danny

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