Dr Frederik G. PferdtFrom Stanford & Google — To You

The power of the term beautiful #futureready #podcast #thefutureishow

4 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, the speaker emphasizes that the word "beautiful" holds a uniquely powerful and unifying role when people imagine the future. While acknowledging that adjectives such as just, inclusive, sustainable, purposeful, productive, successful, and peaceful are important, the speaker argues that "beautiful" resonates more deeply, prompting individuals to desire a beautiful future and a beautiful life. This emotional appeal, the speaker suggests, connects people across diverse perspectives more effectively than any other future‑oriented descriptor.

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The term beautiful is so powerful. When we confront people with the term beautiful or we ask them to imagine the future, we found that it means so much more to people if the future is beautiful. So they want the future to be beautiful. They want to lead a beautiful life rather than to say the future should be just, the future should be inclusive, the future should be sustainable, the future should be purposeful, the future should be productive, the future should be successful, you know, the future should be peaceful. Those are all really important adjectives and you can give them different weight, but beautiful is the one one term, I believe, that connects us all.