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

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  I wish that intimacy could be the other way.

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  Like, I wish I could find out people's deepest, darkest secrets.

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  And then over years, as we build up trust, I could learn what their name is.

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  Hey, everyone, it's Adam Grant.

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  Welcome back to Rethinking my podcast

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  on the science of what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective.

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  I'm an organizational psychologist,

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  and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts

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  and new ways of thinking.

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  My guest today is John Koenig, a writer, graphic designer, video creator, and voice actor.

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  John's the author of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,

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  where he coined a series of emotion words that brilliantly describe human experiences

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  that had previously escaped the English language.

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  If I didn't have little labels to help me remember certain things,

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  it's clouds in darkness in your head, basically.

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  But if you have a word, you can just put a little handle on it somehow,

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  through some mysterious magic process of language in the brain,

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  and then you can share it with people.

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  I'm so excited to have a chance to talk to you.

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  I have read so many words and sentences and paragraphs where my first thought is,

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