The only way to decide your words well?
The 2 things that can be said about words with zero risk of being wrong are the following:
1: You suffer if you have an emotional response to everything that is said to you. Because if words control you means everyone else can control you.
2: If you don’t know words well, you don’t know how to decide words well. And if you don’t know how to decide words well, others will decide your words for you.
If you follow “1” or “2”, you lose because you can’t win with a losing hand.
But there is a 3rd way.
You can end the suffering and decide your words well.
For that, the first step consists of knowing what a word is.
How do you recognise a word when you see or hear one?
Aloud or in self-talk makes no difference.
That first step consists in fact of two, STEP A, followed by STEP B.
STEP A: DO NOT!
DO NOT, repeat DO NOT, believe what the preachers, teachers, schools/universities, internet, artificial intelligence, and smartphones tell you about words.
- Preachers, teachers, schools and universities teach the same about words as the internet. See below. Whatever tries to make a difference between schools and the internet doesn’t know the first thing about either.
- Google, owned by Alphabet, about 108 billion searches per month
- Wikipedia the internet’s most-read reference work, 10 billion views per month
- Artificial intelligence (ChatGPT): “A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes, which are the smallest units of language that have meaning.”
- “In the beginning is the word” is meaningless.
STEP B: DO!
DO, repeat DO, believe what you see here.
In the beginning is the word. https://go.schindlersword.com/7Prift
Everything that you have a word for is, in fact, a word.
The internet gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before. Schools and universities included.
The average 10-year-old has spent more time at their smartphone than at any school.
Whatever tries to make a difference between school and smartphone doesn’t know the first thing about either.
Words haven’t been around forever.
Words have rules.
If you haven’t decided between “STEP A: DO NOT!” and “STEP B: DO!” then you have already made a decision, haven’t you?
This is as simple as decide goes.
No other word or word-user can decide for you.
PS.
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