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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right, welcome to episode 791.

Hello, my friend.

Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who This, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, another episode on language. But this is really, really powerful because it's kind of contrary to what we assume, right? We've talked about this before in various parts of the podcast. But, you know, collectively, we tend to assume that language serves a certain function. Language describes reality. Words follow reality. That is,

we see something, something happens, and then we describe it. We observe and then we report.

So language in that sense is always a secondary thing. It's always a layer that's

placed on top of events that are already occurring or have occurred. But there's something called

speech act theory, which was first introduced by a philosopher named J.L. Austin and also worked

on by John Searle, which basically challenges this entire

assumption, the order of operations of language, right? It suggests that words don't follow

reality, they create it. And Austin noticed something in his studies in the way that we talk

in everyday language. He noticed that there are

certain statements that are not descriptive, right? They're not describing everything. They're not

reporting facts. They're not explaining situations. Instead, they do something. Right. So when someone

apologizes and says, I apologize, they're not describing reality. They're not

describing an apology. They're performing one. The words itself are an act. Or when someone says,

I promise, right? They're not commenting on a promise being made or describing a promise or reporting on a promise, they're making a

promise through those words. Or when someone at a job, for instance, says, I resign, I quit. The

resignation didn't happen. And then the sentence describes a resignation. The resignation happens.

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