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Oscar Wilde - Be yourself; everyone else is already taken · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.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 the host Anna McGivern for October 30th.
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  Today is National Candy Corn Day, a celebration of one of
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  America's most divisive Halloween treats.
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  Observed every year on October 30th, just one day before
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  Halloween, this holiday honors the Tri colored candy that
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  people either love for LEB to hate.
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  Candy corn was invented in the 1880s by George Renninger of the
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  Wonderly Candy Company in Philadelphia.
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  Golitz Confectionery Company, now known as Jelly Belly, began
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  mass producing it in 1898 and continues to make it today.
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  Originally called chicken feed and marketed to rural America,
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  candy corn was revolutionary for its time.
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  The candy designed to look like something from nature.
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  That labor intensive process originally required workers to
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  fill molds by hand, adding each color layer separately.
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  What makes National Candy Corn Day fascinating is that the
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  candy corn has remained essentially unchanged for over
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  140 years. In a world of constantly
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  evolving candy innovation, candy corn is the defiantly old
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  fashioned. Despite, or perhaps because of
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  its polarizing nature, approximately 35,000,000 lbs of
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  candy corn are produced annually, making it one of
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  America's top selling Halloween candy.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from writer Oscar Wilde,
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  who once said be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
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  Wilde's famous advice about authenticity captures something
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  essential about candy corn. In a candy aisle filled with
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  chocolate bars trying to be the next big thing and new flavor
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  innovations appearing constantly, candy corn remains
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  unapologetically itself. It hasn't rebranded, hasn't
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  modernized its recipe, hasn't tried to appeal to everyone.
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  It's just candy corn. Bake it or leave it.
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  Think about what that means. Candy corn knows exactly what it
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  is. It's not trying to be chocolate.
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  It's not pretending to be sophisticated.
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  It's not chasing trends. Some people think it tastes like
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  sugary wax. Others can't get enough of it.
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  Candy corn doesn't care either way.
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  It's been the same for 140 years and will likely remain the same
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  for 140 more. This is what Wilde understood
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  and what Candy Corn demonstrates.
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  Authenticity is powerful when you're genuinely yourself, not
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  trying to please everyone, not changing based on criticism, not
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  chasing what's popular, you find your people, the ones who love
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  you, love you for exactly what you are.
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  The ones who don't, well, everyone else has already taken
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  anyway. National Candy Corn celebrates
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  this kind of confident authenticity.
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  So today, the day before Halloween, embrace the spirit of
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  National Candy Corn Day and Wild's wisdom all about being
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  yourself. Grab some candy corn if you
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  enjoy it, and don't apologize for it.
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  If you hate candy corn, that's fine too.
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  Be authentic about your preferences, but more
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  importantly, think about where in your life you're trying too
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  hard to be something you're not, where you're chasing trends
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  instead of being confidently yourself.
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  What would change if you embraced your authentic
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  preferences, your quirks and personality the way that candy
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  corn embraces its Tri colored sweetness?
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  Remember Wilde's wisdom? Everyone else is already taken.
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  The world needs you to be yourself, even if that means
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  some people won't like it. That's going to do it.
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  For today, I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be
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  back tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.