1. FINAL THOUGHTS

2. make up your own damn mind
“You just have to
make up your own damn mind
to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it.”

3. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

4. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS ASSIGN A NAME: A = Takete or Maluma?
B = Takete or Maluma?

5. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
SCHOOL
WORK
SEX
RELIGION
RACE

6. “because the ultimate expression of power is control”
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
SEGUE:
Cast a CAR commercial
Who’s “signing & driving”
2013 LEXUS GS COMMERCIAL:
“because the ultimate expression of power is control”

7. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS CASTING DIRECTOR: DJ for a party
“A” student who aces SATs
Mini-Mart owner
2 Cops
Over-the-hill, fat, balding
Young, trim, buff
Male Model for athletic clothes
Maid

8. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS PAULA DEAN: Which is worse to say?
N-word or B-word

9. DON’T LET THEM PUT YOU IN A BOX
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
DON’T LET THEM PUT YOU IN A BOX
stereotype

10. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
DON’T PUT YOURSELF
IN A BOX
stereotype

11. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS SELF-TALK: How do you talk to you? WORDS THOUGHTS
BEHAVIORS

12. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
LANGUAGE affects THOUGHTS
THOUGHTS affect LANGUAGE

13. control the language control the people control yourself
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
WORDS = POWER
control the language
control the people
control yourself

14. LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS FINAL QUESTION: NATURE vs. NURTURE
Where does FREE WILL fit in?

15. Don’t believe
everything you think.

16. The surest way to show one’s
ignorance
Is to claim one’s
sapience.