ELL HubNir Eyal
Nir Eyal
Vocabulary
harness (verb)
- Definition:
- to control and use something, like energy or ideas, to help you do something
- Example from the episode:
- “And if we can harness our beliefs, we can impact our motivation and communication.”
- Example sentence:
- “We can harness wind to make electricity.”
novelty (noun)
- Definition:
- something new or different that catches your attention
- Example from the episode:
- “I really like how you explain the way in which structure allows to process fluency, but at the same time, novelty engages us.”
- Example sentence:
- “The toy's novelty made the children laugh.”
malleable (adjective)
- Definition:
- able to be changed, shaped, or influenced easily
- Example from the episode:
- “And so, what really excited me about the study of attention is how malleable it is and how we can live in what seems to be completely different realities simply based on our predilections, on our beliefs that focus our attention in different ways, which is why you can have two people who experience the same exact objective reality and come away with totally different subjective experiences.”
- Example sentence:
- “Young minds are malleable and learn fast.”
in a nutshell (idiom)
- Definition:
- used to say something in a very short and simple way
- Example from the episode:
- “And so that's technology in a nutshell, is just shortening the effort.”
- Example sentence:
- “In a nutshell, the test was easy.”