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Priya Parker
Episode 174
Vocabulary
democratize (verb)
- Definition:
- to make something available to everyone and give them a say in how it works
- Example from the episode:
- “And facilitators and communication experts and sociologists have thought about questions like this for years, but what the pandemic did is it democratized these questions and made everyone have to actually ask, how do we coordinate so that we can be efficient?”
- Example sentence:
- “This project will help democratize information.”
intent (noun)
- Definition:
- a purpose or goal behind what someone wants to do
- Example from the episode:
- “So intentionality is the first step to actually pause and ask and to look what is happening here, and what is my intent, and how do we begin to make something anew?”
- Example sentence:
- “They showed clear intent to finish the project.”
vague (adjective)
- Definition:
- not clear or easy to understand
- Example from the episode:
- “Just the social contract between a meeting, which is sort of a vague term, versus a workshop, right?”
- Example sentence:
- “She gave a vague answer to my question.”
roll somebody’s sleeves up (idiom)
- Definition:
- to get ready to work hard or tackle a task
- Example from the episode:
- “You're already gonna roll your sleeves up.”
- Example sentence:
- “When the deadline approached, everyone rolled their sleeves up.”