“Think before you speak.” We've got it backwards. We speak before we think. Language shapes our thoughts. Speak well and you'll think well and behave accordingly.
From our earliest days we speak as we're spoken to: “nice” or “not nice,” “good” or “bad,” “right” or “wrong.” The world is divided up before we think about it. We're binary before we know it.
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