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49. The Hidden Power of Language

Shit You Don't Learn in School

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Words Are Symbols for Things in Our Lives

Words are symbols for things in our lives, and they are much more simplicitic than the actual things that happen around us. If i look at a mountain for the first time, i don't have the word for mountain. I don't have some words to describe these things. But when i try to describe a landscape, and i just use a big jumbled paragraph, and eventually it comes down to, this is beautiful. And you know exactly what i'm talking about. It's like an analogy of a word being a od. Yes, words of ollive, retirement. Yea. That's how we say 'retirement' or 'senior citizen', which means

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