#nominative-determinism

#nominative-determinism

From your choice of job to how likely you are to get a date, your name can influence more of your life than you might expect.

Parents should understand that a child's name, much like other words, can invoke strong emotional reactions tied to the Bouba/Kiki effect.

When I was setting out to write this one, I didn't have a sense of it being a big idea at all: it was just the thing that, when I was faced with quite a lot of rejection, I kept coming back to.