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

I wish that intimacy could be the other way. Like I wish I could f find out people's deepest, darkest secrets. And then over years as we build up trust, I could learn what their name is. Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking. My podcast on the science of what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective. I'm an organizational psychologist.

and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people. To explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. My guest today is John Koenig, a writer, graphic designer, video creator, and voice actor. John's the author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where he coined a series of emotion words that brilliantly describe human experiences that have previously escaped the English language. If I didn't have little labels to help me remember certain things. It's clouds of in darkness in your head, basically. But if you have a word, you can just put a little handle on it somehow.

through some mysterious magic process of of language in the brain, and then you can share it with people. I'm so excited to have a chance to talk to you. I have read so many Words and sentences and paragraphs where my first thought is I wish I could write like that. Oh well thank you. I appreciate that.

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