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How Language Shape the Way We Think

"To have a second language is to have a second soul." - Charlemagne

For Good

Idina Menzel Lyrics

"For Good"
(feat. Kristin Chenoweth)
(from "Wicked" soundtrack)

[Elphaba:]
I'm limited.
Just look at me.
I'm limited.
And just look at you.
You can do all I couldn't do.
Glinda...
So now it's up to you,
For both of us.
Now it's up to you.

[Glinda:]
I've heard it said,
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn.

And we are led to those
Who help us most to grow if we let them.
And we help them in return.

Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you.

Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the sun,
Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood.

Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good.

[Elphaba:]
It well may be
That we will never meet again in this lifetime.
So, let me say before we part:

So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart.

And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend.

Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea.
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird in a distant wood.

Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you...

[Glinda:]
Because I knew you...

[Both:]
I have been changed for good.

[Elphaba:]
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done,
You blame me for.

[Glinda:]
But then I guess,
We know there's blame to share.

[Both:]
And none of it seems to matter anymore.

Like a comet pulled from orbit
(Like a ship blown from its mooring)
As it passes the sun.
(By a wind off the sea)
Like a stream that meets a boulder
(Like a seed dropped by a bird)
Halfway through the wood.
(In the wood)

Who can say if I've been changed for the better.
I do believe I have been changed for the better.

[Glinda:]
And because I knew you...

[Elphaba:]
Because I knew you...

[Both:]
Because I knew you
I have been changed...
For good.

Key to Success

"Success is the progress realization of a worthy ideal."
"We become what we think about".
"Believe and succeed."

Change Your Mind

To be a human being, to have a brain, is to be a creature that learns. A lot of learning is incremental and slow.

Think holistically about yourself, not treating yourself like a machine simply. Always thinking in guiding meaning of life. What's meaning for you at meta level.

Do not allow anyone to prioritize things for you.

There is things you know. There is things you don't know. There is things you don't know you know. There is things you know you don't know you know.

The brain ...can color experience... it is a living, growing, always changing organ ... the role of incrementalism and building up skills...

Aristotle had this very impressive idea that human beings are happiest and they flourish when they use their best capacities all at once together. That's when you feel most alive.

What do you do?

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