
How Our Language Influences Us for Better or Worse with Mark England
Wild Health Podcast
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How to Get Addicted to Worrying
Mark O'Mara: Words can't isn't not shouldn't don't. They force us to stare at the worst case scenarios. My grandmother was a third degree black belt Olympic gold medalist in the art of worrying. I knew something was going on there because she was just a wound up mess all the time. And then when I played back what she would say I was like, Oh yeah, that's why you keep making all these worst case scenario pictures and then telling us,. You know, how much you're worried about us and expect us to love you. It's a very strange expression of love if you want to get real about it.
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