Yo today's QLZ is every word is a universe

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Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and

the Sean Crox and calm is throwback Thursday and we are turning back that

clock to episode number two 25 at our feature speaker, Dr. Carolyn Mace. Today,

Dr. Mace is going to encourage you to do one thing. And it's to be more

mindful of the words that you use and not just the words that you speak, but

the words that you say to yourself. Here's Dr. Mace.

Next choose new words. I love this. I love this one. When I was growing up, I

I'm a word Smith. I'm a writer. I'm a word Smith. But I absolutely adore words.

I actually went to bed reading the dictionary. And because every word is a

universe unto itself. Every single word and in my workshops, sometimes if it's

appropriate, I tell people what I want you to do is come back tomorrow with

three words you're going to give me. No, make it one that you will never use

again. Just one. I just want one word. And you will never use it again. Never.

And I get to have everything that comes with that word, everything. And I don't

care if the words two letters, three, four, I just want one word. So imagine if

you decided, okay, I'll give you the word bug. I'll give you the word blue. And

you'll never see blue again. Now, if I really, really want you to go home

sometime. And the next couple of days, after you hear this talk, and think about if

you really had to yank a word out of your head, which meant you had to take the whole

world that went with that word out of your head. What would you give that person? What word?

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