[video available on spotify] how do you feel when you see an inspirational quote? let me guess: uninspired. they’re cringe, overplayed, pretentious, cliché. but i think we need inspirational quotes. today, i’m going to go on pinterest and analyze some inspirational quotes with fresh eyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Now tell me, how do you feel when you see an inspirational quote? Let me guess, uninspired. Yeah, but that wasn't always the case. Think back to a decade ago. How did you feel when you saw an inspirational quote? I can tell you how you felt. You felt inspired. Yeah, you did. You felt inspired. A decade ago, we loved inspirational quotes. We slapped them on our t-shirts, on our notebooks.
We got tattoos of them all over our bodies. We loved inspirational quotes. And then all of a sudden one day, we all collectively woke up and decided we don't like inspirational quotes anymore. They're cringe. They're overplayed. They're pretentious. They're cliche. And it became this sort of guilty pleasure. If you liked inspirational quotes, you shouldn't tell people about that.
You know, it used to be posting an inspirational quote on your Instagram was cool, was, well, inspirational. And then it became cringe and choogy and out of touch. But for fuck's sake, I think we need inspirational quotes. I think the fact that we've written off inspirational quotes as cringe and pretentious and cliche is to me a sign of a declining society.
Like if we can find something negative about inspirational quotes, that is a bad sign. Because from what I can remember of inspirational quotes, I haven't paid any attention to an inspirational quote in years. From what I can remember... They were delightful. They inspired thought. There was nothing remotely bad about them. We've all become far too judgmental, cynical, and like cool.
Can we all just stop being fucking cool for a second and be nice again? We need to get back into inspirational quotes. I think it's about time that we get back into inspirational quotes. And honestly, there's a chance that inspirational quotes might become trendy again, just considering that 2010s are going to start coming back soon.
And we all know how we felt about an inspirational quote in 2010. We loved it. So I don't know, like maybe I'm just right on time and maybe inspirational quotes are going to come back into style, but they're definitely not yet. I briefly paused this episode to let you know that this episode is presented by Westin Hotels and Resorts. Westin Hotels is designed with your wellbeing in mind.
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I want to go on Pinterest, aka the home of the inspirational quote, and I want to analyze the inspirational quotes that come up with fresh eyes, okay? For the last few years, whenever an inspirational quote has come up on my Pinterest, I've, for the most part, ignored it.
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