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Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
As humans we like to put things into categories. It makes communicating and thinking easier. Scratch that. It makes communicating and thinking possible. Categories go hand in hand with words as providing us with crucial compression of reality.
Albert Wenger • Progress vs. Categories
Most of us are unaware of how important vocabulary is to emotion skills. As we’ve seen, using many different words implies valuable distinctions—that we’re not always simply angry but are sometimes annoyed, irritated, frustrated, disgusted, aggravated, and so on. If we can’t discern the difference, it suggests that we can’t understand it either. It... See more
Marc Brackett • Permission to Feel Book | A guide to understanding emotions (EQ) for adults and children
