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The emotions you’ve felt but never named with John Koenig

2025/3/4
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Adam Grant: 我对John Koenig创造的新词语来描述人类情感体验很感兴趣，这些词语填补了英语语言的空白。语言能帮助我们更好地理解和表达情感，并与他人分享，尤其是在面对复杂的人际关系时，语言能帮助我们更好地理解和包容他人。 在与John Koenig的对话中，我发现语言不仅能帮助我们表达情感，还能帮助我们更好地理解自己和他人的情感体验。通过创造新词语，我们可以更好地捕捉到那些难以言喻的情感，并与他人分享这些情感体验。 此外，语言还能帮助我们更好地理解人性的复杂性。在与John Koenig的对话中，我发现Sonder这个词语能够帮助我们更好地理解人与人之间的差异，以及每个人背后丰富复杂的人生故事。 总而言之，语言是人际沟通的重要工具，它能够帮助我们更好地理解和表达情感，并与他人建立更深层次的联系。 John Koenig: 我创造新词语的初衷是为了表达那些难以言喻的情感，填补英语语言的空白。失眠经常激发我的写作灵感，很多词语的灵感都来自于日常生活中细微的观察和感受。 Sonder这个词语指的是意识到每个擦肩而过的人都拥有和你一样丰富复杂的人生，这是一种既兴奋又悲伤的感受。它让我意识到我们只能触及人生的表面，无法完全了解真相，也让我们更加渴望了解人性。 创造新词语的过程是一个自然演变的过程，词语之间存在内在联系，它们共同展现了人类情感体验的丰富性和复杂性。这本书旨在帮助人们在生活中感到不那么孤单，体会到自己并不孤单。 在创作过程中，我逐渐意识到语言的局限性，以及过度分析情感可能会削弱其真实性和力量。有时候，我们应该允许自己去体验情感，而不是过度分析。

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The podcast starts by introducing the word "sonder," defined as the realization that every passerby lives a life as complex as our own. The hosts discuss the joyful and sorrowful aspects of this concept, exploring the vastness of human experience and the limitations of our ability to truly know others. They also touch upon the importance of recognizing the complexity of others to foster compassion and reduce division.
  • Sonder is the awareness that every passerby lives a life as vivid and complex as our own.
  • Sonder can be both joyful (in the vastness of human experience) and sorrowful (in the limitation of knowing others).
  • The hosts discuss the importance of seeing the complexity of others to foster compassion and reduce division.

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Have you heard of the word sonder? It’s the realization that each “random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” John Koenig introduced it in his book *The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows—*a compilation of new words aiming to capture the nuance and complexity of emotions that can be hard to put a finger on. In this vocabulary-expanding episode, John and Adam explore the sense of loss upon finishing a great book or movie, the dread of chasing a dream, and the awe of human existence. They discuss John’s method and motivation for inventing new words and consider the profound capacity for language to show people that they’re not alone.

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