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Bob Ross - We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGovern for August 4th.
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  Today is National chocolate chip cookie day.
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  Is there a more universally beloved treat?
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  Whether you're a crispy cookie person or on team chewy, and
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  this is one of life's great debates.
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  Today we celebrate what might be North America's most accidental
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  masterpiece. And here in Canada, it's also
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  British Columbia Day, a statutory holiday celebrating
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  beautiful British Columbia. So while our American friends
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  are munching on chocolate chip cookies, we're enjoying a long
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  weekend celebrating this incredible province with its
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  mountains, oceans, forests, and yes, some pretty amazing
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  bakeries that make killer chocolate chip cookies too.
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  The chocolate chip cookie was created by Ruth Graves Wakefield
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  in 1938 at her Toll House Inn in Massachusetts.
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  But here's the beautiful part. It was a complete accident.
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  Ruth ran out of Baker's chocolate for her cookie recipe.
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  So she broke up a Nestle chocolate bar into the dough,
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  thinking it would melt and create chocolate cookies.
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  Instead, the chunks held their shape and boom, culinary history
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  was born. Sometimes the best things in
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  life happen when our original plans fall apart completely.
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  Which brings us to today's quote from Bob Ross, who once said we
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  don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
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  Now, Bob Ross wasn't talking about baking.
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  He was teaching us to paint landscapes and encouraging us to
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  embrace the unexpected brush strokes.
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  But as wisdom applies perfectly to Ruth Wakefield's kitchen
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  discovery, she wasn't trying to revolutionize desserts.
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  She was just trying to make do with what she had.
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  And isn't that just like life? You run out of the ingredient
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  you think you need, you improvise with what's available,
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  and sometimes you create something even better than what
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  you originally planned. Like those moments when your GPS
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  fails and you discover a beautiful scenic route.
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  When your first choice college rejects you and you end up
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  somewhere that changes your entire life trajectory.
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  When you're forced to pivot at work and stumble onto your true
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  calling. The chocolate chip cookie
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  reminds us that some of our greatest breakthroughs are
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  disguised as inconveniences. Ruth's mistake became
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  Massachusetts official state cookie and one of the world's
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  most popular treats. So today, when something doesn't
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  go according to plan and something probably won't
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  remember Ruth and her chocolate chip revelation, maybe what
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  feels like a set back is actually setting you up for
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  something sweeter. And here in BC, we've had our
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  own happy accidents, like how the 2010 Winter Olympics in
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  Vancouver were supposed to be a huge financial risk, but ended
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  up showcasing our province to the world and leaving us with
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  incredible legacy facilities and infrastructure.
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  Sometimes what looks like a gamble turns into something
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  beautiful. That's going to do it 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.