#18 The Power of Language

Podcast: Between the Ears Podcast · betweentheear

Opublikowano: 2026-09-12

In this episode, Arnold Beekes explores language as what he calls an invisible straitjacket — something almost nobody recognizes as a limitation, yet it shapes and restricts nearly every connection we try to make with each other. He walks through why: the sheer number of mother tongues across the world, the fact that even speaking seven languages himself (he's currently learning Spanish, his seventh) still leaves him limited in certain conversations, and how communication breaks down even between people who share a language, let alone across a genuinely global world. Arnold introduces Marshall Rosenberg's framework of Nonviolent Communication — observation, feeling, need...