Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here and welcome. Welcome to the podcast. Today, I want to

talk about this concept of make your mark. So there's a good chance that you've heard that

before. But in case it is new to you, it is often defined as something that you've heard that before, but in case it is new to you, it is often defined as something

that you do to be noticed or made famous in some way. And this is an idiom, and idioms are just these

expressions that we say that are not meant to be taken literally.

However, with me being autistic, I tend to, I tend to take the idioms literally. When I hear the phrase

down to earth, I almost instantly imagine a person lying in the grass with

their ear down to the earth. Of course, I know that that's not what that means, but what I'm saying is

because I tend to think of things in a literal way, I do have these very literal images associated with different idioms. For instance,

a piece of cake, I see a very specific piece of cake when I hear that at the same time

while also knowing what that person meant. And the same is true for make your mark.

Every time I've heard that, I think about a single mark on a page, the mark that someone has made that says, here's what I've done in the world.

Here's the notable thing, the recognizable thing that I've done.

And while I don't know the story of this idiom, I tried to find it.

I did some very light Googling.

I didn't really find anything upon just my very, very surface level looking.

But I have found this to be true with a lot of different idioms,

is that there oftentimes isn't like this one story of in 1831 was

the first usage of this idiom that they just sort of seem to find their way into our world in all

these different ways and we don't even know how they got here. But that's another topic for another time.

Make your mark.

While I do believe it is well-intentioned

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