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Summary: Here's another little gem from Dan Pink’s To Sell Is Human. (The man is a brilliant writer and a treasure-trove of goodness.) He tells us that, according to research from McKinsey: “the typical American hears or reads more than one hundred thousand words every day.” Think about that for a moment. 100,000 words. EVERY DAY. When I think about that, I immediately think of a few things: A Lion, a King, and a Monk.