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Today's episode is Magnanimity.

Question for you, how often have you used this word?

How often do you use this word? How often do you use this word, how often do you think about how you

can be more magnanimous in your life, how much have you thought about ways you can practice more magnanimity. I'm guessing not a lot as

an answer to all of those questions. It's not that you are not magnanimous, it's that it is a virtue, a quality, a principle,

and ethic that we don't talk about a lot and we don't think about a lot and we don't aspire to,

unless you do it and you're not aware that you're being magnanimous and I think it's a shame in fact if you look at the Oxford English

Dictionary the Oxford English Dictionary records the frequency of use of a word, i.e. its popularity, right?

And this word, magnanimity, is rare, magnanimity as well as magnanimous both as words rank four on the scale of

frequency which is very low and the scale of frequency means that the use of this word magnanimity occurs between 0.1 and one time

per million words in modern written English.

Now, does that mean that the virtue itself is rare?

Or is it just that the word is rare?

Maybe we're using another word to define

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