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Release Your Brilliance
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Release Your Brilliance

by Simon T. Bailey
October 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 13m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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FACET: UPGRADE YOUR VERBAL SOFTWARE

“MAN ACTS AS THOUGH HE WERE THE SHAPER AND MASTER OF LANGUAGE, WHILE IN FACT LANGUAGE REMAINS THE MASTER OF MAN.”

—MARTIN HEIDEGGER, GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, there are more than one million words in the English language. But we only use between two thousand and twenty-five hundred words, just a small proportion of the many available to us. And, according to the Robbins Research Institute, each of us has only two hundred to three hundred habitual words that we use regularly to frame our reality.

Language is the software of the mind. Like software, language is simply a tool that we use to create a specific outcome. Words paint pictures. Words express ...

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