Fred's Fun Fact: Overthinking in Another Language

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Thread show is on Freend's Fun Fact Fred Fund
learn so much? Okay, So of the thirteen people who
listen to us, and we only have thirteen listeners, And
I don't understand how, because they keep putting us on
different places we still only have thirteen listeners. I get
the report every week. It's like, how is this? Hey,

(00:21):
how can this possibly be? But of you amazing, fine, intelligent, sexy,
brilliant human beings, yeah, who make our careers in our existences,
many of you, and Polina you're one of them. Ye
speak more than one language, okay, and some people maybe
they're maybe English is their second language or third or

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whatever I mean technically, But I learned this this morning,
and here's your fun fact. Did you know that? Well?
You might assume that you would need your native tongue
to fully comprehend all aspects of a problem. One twenty
eighteen study published in Psychological Science, which I'm a voracious reader,
I might get all of them sent to my home.
They found that thinking it over in a different language

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might actually improve your rationality. Using a non native language,
no matter what it is, requires you to deliberate in
your word choice and less reactive emotionally charged words, giving
you a more accurate ability to perceive risk. That effect
extended to bets, with people who consider the rationality of
a bet in a second language more likely to take

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the more profitable option. So it's like, I don't know
as many words I guess in another language, so I
have to simplify it. And then if I simplify it,
then I can come up with a better response. Okay,
I mean you've taken the du aleipa now for how long?
A thousand days in a row? Oh no, I'm like
sixteen hundreds, sixteen hundred days of do alepa. Oh yeah,
I can't bet on nothing. They can you do a lingo?
But do you feel like if you were to think

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of a dilemma you were having Jason in Spanish, do
you feel like you would come up with a better
answer because you because you have to like use fewer
words because you don't know as many Oh I mean,
I guess, but I don't know if i'd be a
it's like convey what I want to say, Like, I
don't know how to have a conflict. If I'm like
this girl, this girl is not calling me back, And
and and we went on these days. I spent all

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this money and then she she's not calling me back.
She does, she's ghost. But in Spanish i'd have to
be like girl, no call you know, so I know.
So I'd be like Chica no yeah right, So I'd
be like Yama yeah no yo, Yama no longer I
don't right? So did I just give you credit for

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speaking more than what more? Fred Show Next