To follow up on Sheena Iyengar’s Ted video, read this article by Newsweek’s health editor Sharon Begley on the science of making decisions in a world of information overload. Sharon Begley – I can’t Think
Category: Language
The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices and how we feel about the choices we make. Watch this TED video to understand more about how we process information and some surprising findings about our attitudes in regard to making decisions.
Language as a Window into Human Nature
This talk by psychologist & linguist Steven Pinker dives into the arcane dimension of language as a window into Human nature. For Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take… Continue reading Language as a Window into Human Nature