Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. Oh, Today's go-to-mytseum a little wonky. It is about the power of a strong working vocabulary

to change your life in various and essential ways.

So you're going to have to trust me,

that I have really thought about this.

And the reason I really thought about it is because I was

asked to give a TEDX talk in Sonoma years and years ago and I, as you might

imagine, totally stress myself out for months beforehand trying to come to a very specific

point.

And in honor of the fact that I am, drum roll please, giving a big TED Talk in Vancouver this April I thought it might be kind of fun

to share this one and I still believe in every word the other reason I wanted to

share it now is because next week on the Tuesday deep dive we are going to be sitting down

with Chris Anderson he runs Ted he's brilliant and he's written a book that I

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