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In this episode Joel and Antonia talk about Alfred Korzybski's ideas around General Semantics and how it can help us better understand each other as humans.

This podcast episode talks about creating distinction on language and how creating better distinction fosters better understanding.

The English language’s flexibility in the parts of speech is the main key to its popularity. However, due to its flexibility, we seemed to lose a lot of distinction on the language we use and this can cause a lot of misunderstanding.

When communicating with other people, sometimes we expect that they will perceive the same representation or picture inside our head which is not true. Words that have no physical representation can be very challenging to picture because they lack the physical component

Alfred Korzybski – the map is not the territory.

General semantics (originated with Alfred Korzybski) is the concept that the language we use to transmit or express our ideas, feelings and thoughts in the world are always lacking and insufficient.

The words we use are simply a way of trying to convey information to each other and when we mistake that words are ultimate and definitive, misunderstanding occurs.

Unfortunately, we end up getting more attached and dependent to words, and we mistake words for the ultimate thing.

If we over generalize people and oversimplify, it will lead to unhappiness because we only see the world in just one dimension.

We need to come up with better ways to speak in order to represent reality.

You will not see the solution to the problem when you generalize and over simplify. The words we choose to define reality are very important. If you are an English speaker, there’s limitation the language because it doesn’t have much distinction. Hence, we need to define more frameworks and subsets especially when solving problems. These distinctions are very important to best way to customize your growth as a person.

Other languages have many representations of a single word. In the English language, subsets can be introduced in order to categorize different sets of definition.
In relation to Personality Development, the more distinction you acquire and learn in personal psychology, the more you understand yourself and grow.

Nothing should be considered absolute and static. General semantics is a powerful tool to see the world. It is intended to be a finer tune instrument for making evaluations. The language we use is not reality. The more understanding we can create, the more problems we can solve.

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