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Speaker 1: Those old saynts, you know, those things that your family

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and friends usually came up with, that came out of nowhere,

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and sometimes it only made sense. I mean, they had

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to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why, when? And how?

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Some of those old sayings are not only ancient, but

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still carry a powerful punch even today. In fact, I

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live by one of those old saints. Winning is a choice.

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The goal of these episodes is to help preserve not

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only a language, but lessons in life. My name is Arrow.

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It comes to me in spurts. It's the best way

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to explain it. It describes an irregular flow of thought, ideas,

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and creativity. It is the modern version of it fits

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and spurts, and fits and starts, which was an expression

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that was often used in the fifteen hundreds. First, the

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word fits refers to sudden brief action or an explosion

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of emotion. Now let's add in the word starts. You know,

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fits and starts. It was added in the building of

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this phrase in the sixteen hundreds, referring to a sudden,

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jerky movement. What that has to do with it comes

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to me in spurts is almost unexplainable, but it's historically connected.

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Now let's bring in fits and spurts. We already know

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what fits represents sudden brief action. Adding in spurts refers

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to a sudden burst. It conveys that our mental processing

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has had a sudden burst of activity. Now, as a

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daily writer, I deal with this and timestamp everything that

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I document and the reason why, because as that writer,

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it doesn't come to me all in one spurt. It's

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several different spurts. And I'm not the only one who

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speaks like this. Sit down sometime with a songwriter who

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will say, well, you know that song took me twenty minutes,

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and then another artist will tell you, well, you know

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that was about three decades in the making. In your

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own personal life, does it come to you in spurts?

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Something our parents would say? My name is Arrow.