Tamsen WebsterFounder & Chief Learning Officer, Message Design Institute · I study what novel ideas require to make aha moments possible | Researcher, author, and professional sensegiver for people whose work changes minds

Combatting Language Misuse: A Wave of Positive Change

1 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Tamsen Webster. This content was uploaded by Tamsen Webster. This is a YouTube video titled "Combatting Language Misuse: A Wave of Positive Change" (published 2026-01-01). It contains a single-speaker talk in which the speaker addresses responses to language misuse — efforts to make language easier to understand, to encourage critical and strategic thinking, and to expose rhetorical tricks — and connects these themes to their research on creating conditions for rapid changes of mind without coercion or manipulation.

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The good news is that in response to this misuse of language, there has been a subsequent wave of people focused on making language easier to understand, encouraging critical thinking, encouraging strategic thinking, and helping people understand the tricks and the misuses of language that are all around us. Given my work and research, which is all about how do we create the conditions for rapid changes of mind, without coercion or manipulation, you could probably see why this is pretty exciting to me.