Deciphering the language of emotion | John Koenig | TEDxEMWS

We are all moving on our separate paths in this world, yet secretly orbiting the same thing. The challenge is how do we look past that and find a way to see our own humanity. In this abstract talk, amongst the various other words he's created to fill the language of emotion, John Koenig, the founder of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, teaches us how to overcome this challenge by describing the concept of his favourite creation thus far 'Sonder'.

John has spent the last decade building a home in every creative field he can find, working as a graphic designer, video editor, voice actor, illustrator, photographer, director, and writer. He has spent the last six years writing an original dictionary of made-up words, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which fills gaps in the language with hundreds of new terms for emotions, one of which (Sonder) has now entered the language outright.

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