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You’ve heard about the power of positive thinking, right? Everyone’s raving about it. If you simply think positively, rainstorms will turn into rainbows, red lights will turn green, and your in-laws will suddenly turn into human beings. Right? Right?! 你应该听过积极思考的魔力吧？每个人都对它赞不绝口。若你凡事就只用积极方式思考，暴风雨能变成彩虹，红灯能变成绿灯，对吧？真的是这样吗？ I’ll tell you what you can control, though: your words. By making a few changes in your vocabulary, you can turn steaming piles of crap into 100% organic fertilizer. You can turn an inconvenient power outage into cuddle time with your sweetie. And you can turn obligations into opportunities. Words shape thoughts, and you’ll find that if you change your words for the better, your thoughts will change for the better too, and so will your life. 我来告诉你需要控制的东西：你的语言。只要对你的遣词做点小小改变，你会将一连串的废话变成100%的有机肥料。你可以将令人尴尬的冷场变成甜言蜜语。你也可以将那些不得不说的时刻变成你的机遇。语言造就思维，你会发现若你改善自己的遣词，你的思维会变得更出色，随之而来的就是你越来越美妙的生活。 1. Should 应该 Have you heard the expression “Stop shoulding all over yourself”? Well, let’s clean that “should” off your pants and replace it with some organic fertilizer, because every obligation can be rephrased as a desire. Instead of “I should go to the store,” how about “I want to go to the store because I’m hungry and I want to buy some food”? | 
