No matter how many emotional goodbye messages you draft, the final words when uttered out loud will bring you both down. What you can do is work on softening the blow. Whether you will remain good friends moving forward or this is the last time you are speaking to each other depends on...
Conversation analysis transcription.Transcriptionis the process of turningraw audio or videointo written text representing the words uttered in an interaction. When employing conversation analysis, you will likely want to consider transcribing as much detail as possible to capture spoken interaction subtleti...
“Hello” is often the very first vocabulary word uttered in any language course, podcast, textbook or YouTube instructional video. It’s the word that starts it all: A friendly conversation between two strangers. A business meeting with clients. A beginning to a romantic encounter. So it’...
I have since uttered that Polish proverb to myself when I begin to feel my brother’s issues creep into my life. Salvaging a damaged relationship with a member of your family can be a difficult journey. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be done. The main thing to remember is ...
It was first used by the Roman poetHoracein 23 B.C. as a way to stress the importance of living each day to its fullest. 2. Id est You probably don't say this exact Latin phrase, which means "it is," but we bet you've written its abbreviated form "i.e.," which is used to...
Track your sleep with Oura to identify the habits that help or hurt – learn how to get more and better sleep today! “Last night was rough. I feel like I barely slept.” We’ve all uttered these familiar phrases more than a few times in our lives. You might find yourself experimenti...
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” Those were the words uttered by pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin, who firmly believed that the pursuit of science should be 26 to all. As a woman working in the first half of the 20th century, Franklin's contrib...
Imagine how this child might feel if you say to them, “You need to go away. I need to release you.” This would be layering yet another layer of trauma in the mind of an already traumatized child. In essence, this is exactly what we do to ourselves when we try to release or get...
In a 2016 study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people's brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future. When people uttered a falsehood, the scientists noticed a burst of activity in their amygdala. The amygdala is a cruci...
Let’s say you grew up in an unstable and unpredictable environment, in which case your brain may be sculpted to forecast a life of instability. You may overgeneralize and be acutely attuned to cues of instability: “The world is unsafe!” Coupled with this, your brain might ignore all ...