Language and Perception in Culture

It's really interesting.

I watched a super cool documentary on an African tribe

that saw colors.

Did you ever watch?

Has anyone ever seen it?

You've seen it?

Badass.

It changed my entire perception on the world.

The Himba tribe, they're called.

Is it Himba?

Himba is the word, yeah.

So they had a completely different language

set for colors.

So all the different types of green

had different words as different colors.

But I think blue, this is off the top of my head,

was the same word as another type of green.

So because of how they categorized

the colors by language, when you showed them

two very similar greens, they could say,

oh, that's that, that's that.

But when you showed them blue and green,

they thought it was the same.

Because how they've categorized it by language,

it changed how they viewed it.

So if you change fear to excitement in your mind,

then it's exciting.

If you change tired to warmed up,

when I get tired when I'm hitting you,

I'm like, OK, now I hit harder.

I start to think, now, OK, I'm tired now.

Now I'm going to hit harder.

And then I hit harder.

I start hitting you harder.

It's amazing how you can reframe everything

with just simple language tricks.

It's all semantics.