Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? In the final episode of our "Mind Reading 2.0" series, we bring back a favorite conversation with linguist Deborah Tannen. She shows how our conversational styles can cause unintended conflicts, and what we can do to communicate more effectively with the people in our lives.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:03.0	One of the most famous comedy sketches of the 20th century
0:06.2	is built on a simple misunderstanding.
0:08.9	We just pretend that we're organizing a baseball team here
0:12.7	at the retired actors' home.
0:14.8	And I am the manager.
0:16.3	It's the routine from Abbott and Costello, who's on first.
0:19.5	Well, let's see now, we have on our team, we have who's on first,
0:22.2	what's on second, I don't know, who's on third.
0:24.2	That's what I want to find out.
0:25.2	That's what I want to find out, the guy's name.
0:27.4	I'm telling you, who's on first, what's on second,
0:29.2	I don't know, who's on third.
0:30.3	The duo first performed the sketch in the 1930s
0:32.9	and continued to refine it over the next two decades.
0:36.2	They rarely did it the same way twice.
0:38.5	You learn a guy's name's on a baseball team.
0:40.3	Who's on first?
0:41.3	Yes.
0:41.8	I mean, the guy's name, who?
0:42.8	They got play first.
0:43.5	Who?
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