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How Language Affects Your Ability to Save
By cheerful.egg  •  March 5, 2013

speech bubbleBooya! Welcome to the very first “official” post at the relaunched, self-hosted, cheerfulegg.com! I spent the weekend migrating to a self-hosted website, which means I take your cheerfulegg reading experience seriously enough to actually pay to get those pesky ads removed. Woot woot.

Anyways, it’s been awhile since I posted a TED talk, so I’ll share one I thought was pretty interesting in a nerdy, academic sort of way. This one is by Keith Chen, who came up with a pretty interesting hypothesis:

Speaking Mandarin makes you more likely to save.

No, seriously, fareals. Check it out:

Okay more accurately, Chen argued that speaking a futureless language (like Mandarin) makes you more likely to save. Conversely, speaking a “futured” language (like English) makes you less likely to save.

The results seem to pan out in real life: China saves a whopping 54% of their income, while the ...

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Hey, what’s up? My name’s Lionel. When I was a kid, my favourite comic of all time was Spider-Man. Before he became a superhero, Peter Parker had to deal the day-to-day struggles of a young person: Living with foster parents, grades, bullies, and getting pushed around.
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