📫 Cake & Change – Weekend Words #071

Your weekend words are: cake and change.

“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”

— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food

More on nutrition in Tuesday’s email

“A good change leader never thinks, “Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people.” A change leader thinks, “How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?”

— Chip Heath & Dan Health, Switch

More on leadership in Thursday’s email  

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