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Hey everyone,
Hope you had a good week and are enjoying the weekend.

After much deliberation, I just tried reuploading and reposting my most recent video as it was performing worse than my worst performing video that was posted back when I had 700,000 subscribers. ...but it was getting 30% more watch time than average. So, people on average liked the content more than my typical stuff but it was getting far less views than average. I hope this doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth for those of you who watched it when it first came out.

I thought this was odd and was trying to figure out what the issue is. It's a lot different from my typical uploads - I think most people expect some sort of productivity/self improvement/health type content from me rather than language though I wouldn't expect that much of a drop just due to the content being different (after all, my Doublespeak video is my best performing recent video).

Some people were telling me they weren't being notified that I had uploaded so I tried tweaking the tags, the title, the thumbnail and even changed the intro a bit.

Anyhow, please bear with me on this one - I don't intend to make reposting a common thing from me. If you already watched the video, thank you. If you don't mind it would really help if you left a comment/like on the new upload.

And, for those of you who have reddit, someone has posted it on /r/mealtimevideos
If you indeed enjoyed the video and think it's worth an upvote, please leave one. It should be helpful for getting the video some early traction (which appears to be huge for the algorithm)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mealtimevideos/comments/ddorvq/1904_how_did_the_first_language_begin_the_mystery/?st=k1dqhvmx&sh=0c9b2acf

Thank you everyone. It's thanks to y'all I can keep focusing on research even when the algorithm gods don't smile upon me.

-Joseph

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How did the First Language Begin? The Mystery of the Piraha

First 200 people to use this link https://brilliant.org/WIL/ can get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant! [Points Covered] 0:00 - Location affects how languages sound? 1:45 - Language is complex and difficult, even for babies. Does that mean it must be prewired? Or could we have invented it? 2:50 - If language "evolved," what were the steps it took? [Enter indexes] 3:29 - Icons 4:34 - Symbols 6:48 - What about grammar? | Language is a gestalt: importance of culture, gestures, intonation... 7:40 - NEED CONTEXT. CONTEXT GOOD. CONTEXT BIG. 9:40 - The recursion controversy. What is recursion? Why is it a big deal that Pirahã lacks it? 11:17 - Is the lack of recursion an example supporting the idea that languages are an evolved invention? 14:30 - "immediacy of experience" principle 15:30 - What if you lacked numbers? 16:30 - "So the point is..." Big thanks to Daniel Everett (no relation) for speaking with me over Skype and answering several follow up questions I had about the Pirahã, their language and the ideas presented in his books. Check out https://daneverettbooks.com/ for more information. Link to Transcript with sources (PDF file @ this link) https://www.patreon.com/posts/script-where-did-30173973 ▲Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WILearned ▲Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeverettlearned ▲IG: https://www.instagram.com/jeverett.whativelearned/ Books Mentioned: "How Language Began" - https://amzn.to/2McfW08 "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes" - https://amzn.to/2QjOing For Business inquiries: joseph.everett.wil@gmail.com

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Anonymous

I don't mind that the video is not about productivity/self improvement/health. Your channel is called What I've Learned and so far I've really enjoyed seeing what you actually have learned. You shouldn't have to limit yourself to the aforementioned topics; do whatever you find interesting at the moment. This will probably even cause you to bring about more enthusiasm which people will definitely notice. Thanks for what you're doing, it's going great!

WILearned

Thank you Jelle! Indeed - with all the research necessary to make the videos the way they are, enthusiasm is important.

Anonymous

Also an interesting topic is how we transferred spoken language to written language. There is a stupid way which is using symbols for every "thing" (like the Chinese did) and a smart way which is by using phonetics. Sam Blumenfeld talks about this for example. If you know about this, you can learn to read MUCH faster.