Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words

There is no full stop after "nevertheless." There is a comma, a dash, or a deliberate pause. Because the word itself is a bridge, not a destination.

Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, studied the difference between optimists and pessimists. Pessimists see failure as permanent ("I always mess up"), pervasive ("This ruins everything"), and personal ("I am the problem"). Optimists see failure as temporary—and they use "nevertheless" as their linguistic scalpel.

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