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Author Donald L. Hicks - Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcastheroes.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed
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  to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Anna McGivern for December 27th.
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  Today is Make Cudo Snowflakes Day, celebrating the simple art
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  of folding paper and cutting patterns to create winter
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  beauty. It's an activity that requires
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  nothing expensive or complicated, just paper,
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  scissors and imagination. Fold the paper, make some cuts,
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  unfold it to discover what you've created.
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  That's it. Each snowflake emerges as a
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  surprise, revealing patterns you couldn't quite predict.
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  The beauty is in the unpredictability.
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  No2 snowflakes ever turn out the same, even when you're trying to
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  replicate 1. That's not a flaw, that's magic.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from Arthur Donald L
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  Hicks, who captured this truth beautifully when he wrote Every
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  snowflake is unique, yet they are perfect.
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  Hicks observation applies to paper snowflakes and real ones.
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  In nature. No2 snowflakes share identical
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  patterns. Scientists have examined
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  millions, and each one is different.
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  When you cut paper snowflakes, the same thing happens.
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  Your cuts won't match mine. They can't.
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  They won't, and they shouldn't. Every fold is slightly
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  different. Every angle of the scissors
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  creates something new. Every snowflake that unfolds
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  reveals its own pattern. Here's why this matters.
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  They're all perfect. The elaborate 6 pointed one with
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  intrinsic designs? Perfect.
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  The simple one with just a few cuts.
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  Perfect, the lopsided one where you accidentally cut too much.
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  Still perfect. They're perfect because they're
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  unique, not despite their differences, but because of
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  them. This applies beyond paper
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  crafts. We spend so much energy trying
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  to match some template, some ideal, some version of what we
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  think we should be. But Hicks reminds us, uniqueness
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  is perfection. Your particular pattern, your
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  specific cuts, your individual design, that's not a deviation
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  from perfect. That is perfect.
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  So today, find some paper, grab some scissors and create.
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  Don't worry about making them beautiful or symmetrical or
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  Instagram worthy. Just fold, cut, unfold and see
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  what emerges. Each one will be different, each
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  one will be unique, and according to Hicks wisdom, each
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  one will be perfect. Remember this when you're
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  comparing yourself to others, when you're wishing you were
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  different, when you're seeing your uniqueness as a flaw rather
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  than a feature. You're a snowflake, unique and
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  perfect, exactly as you are. That's going to do for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.