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#83: George Lakoff on a Life Lived by Metaphor

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Learning from Failure and Studying with Chomsky

The speakers discuss their personal experiences of failure and how they overcame them, including their journey to teach at Berkeley and their encounter with Noam Chomsky. They share an amusing story about writing a term paper on linguistics and phonology for Chomsky, only to discover he had never read any poetry. They also touch on the collaboration that led to their famous work 'Metaphors We Live By' and their shared exploration of conceptual metaphor through an undergraduate seminar.

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