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I like today's expression.

It is to leave my mark.

To leave my mark.

What does it mean to leave your mark?

L-E-A-V-E, my, M-Y, Mark, M-A-R-K. What it means is basically to leave a legacy.

After you die, after you quit, after you go, after you leave, will people remember you? How will they remember you? Well, one way to leave your mark

could be on a tree. So when you're a child, maybe there's a tree in your neighborhood,

and maybe you inscribed your name, shame, in the tree.

And if you use a knife and you carve your name, you inscribe your name in the tree.

We taught inscribe yesterday.

Or rather on Monday, Friday, sorry. Today's Monday, damn it.

So after many years go by, can you still see your name?

Yeah, you can. Usually, sometimes maybe not, but usually you can still see the name.

And even after 100 years, it might be possible to just kind of see your name.

Even though you're dead, people might still see your name.

You have successfully left your mark. But that's not nice to the tree.

Hmm. So what's another way we can leave our mark? Check out the dialogue and I'll give you

some more ideas. I'm leaving my mark on this rock.

For what?

So that people will know that I was here.

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