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THE POWER OF LANGUAGE - VIORICA MARIAN GEBUNDEN

“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink   A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023 A New
Scientist Best Science Book    A Publishers Weekly Summer Read 2023 Recommendation One of Next
Big Idea Club’s "7 Books that Reveal the Wonders of Writing and Language" One of Inc.’s “13
Psychology Books to Understand Humans Way Better”  This revolutionary book goes beyond any
recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its
virtually limitless power.    As Dr. Marian explains  while you may well think you speak only
one language  in fact your mind accommodates multiple codes of communication. Some people speak
Spanish  some Mandarin. Some speak poetry  some are fluent in math. The human brain is built to
use multiple languages  and using more languages opens doors to creativity  brain health  and
cognitive control.     Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret
information. It alters what we remember  how we perceive ourselves and the world around us  how
we feel  the insights we have  the decisions we make  and the actions we take. Language is an
invaluable tool for organizing  processing  and structuring information  and thereby unleashing
radical advancement.     Learning a new language has broad lifetime consequences  and Dr.
Marian reviews research showing that it:   ·        Enhances executive function—our ability to
focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that don’t.  ·        Results in higher
scores on creative-thinking tasks.  ·        Develops critical reasoning skills.  ·       
Delays Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia by four to six years.  ·        Improves
decisions made under emotional duress.  ·        Changes what we see  pay attention to  and
recall.

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