“The idea is that we move from a place of wanting the world to conform to what we like [towards] not needing other people to be different from who they are.”

“Deep down the natural endpoint of this whole goal of looking for planets is to answer the question: are we alone?”

Language is a huge part of human development, even the language we keep to ourselves. Three experts explain how words and beliefs can change our brains and our lives:

“So many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, for sure, and certainly as a species.”

“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”