Go.

Terrific.

Well, I just saw a headline that Jennifer Rubin quit the Washington Post, or was she asked to leave?

I don't know the details, but she had criticized the boss, so maybe she wasn't going to stay there that long.

So if you don't know, the Dilbert cartoon that normally is only behind the paywall, either an axe or at locals.

Dilbert is a Californian. I'm not sure if you all knew that, but Dilbert's a Californian,

and for the next, this week, you will be figuring out what to do as the fire approaches his house.

I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler. He's going to stay. So Dilbert will stay in his house and try to defend

it, and you'll find out how that goes on Sunday. But today is the beginning of that series,

if anybody's interested. According to science, neuroscience news says that dopamine and serotonin drive emotional word processing.

In other words, the actual dopamine and serotonin levels can be altered by words.

So your words change your chemical structure, I mean the words that you hear, and that in turn

changes how you feel. Now you know what they could have done instead of doing this

big old study on dopamine and serotonin and words? They could have just asked me because every hypnotist knows this

and I think every writer knows it

I thought everybody knew

that certain words carry power

and that you can feel the difference

now if you can feel the difference in the words,

I always assumed it was something like dopamine and serotonin that made you feel it. One of the

advantages that I have in my profession as a writer, and I don't really know how common this is,

maybe it's common, I don't know.

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