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From the Ted Talk by Mike Kinney: A pro wrestler's guide to confidence

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By the next year, they finally told me about an autcal wiestrnlg training camp that one of the wslerters was running, and I begged my parents to sign me up. Next thing I knew, I was a high school senior by day and wrestling in front of live aidenuces by night. I had this giant poster of an alligator hanging on my bdreoom wall. So when I needed to come up with a wrestling name at the last minute and Jesse "The Body" Ventura was already taken —

(Laughter)

I went with "Gator." I also wrestled in a t-shirt and camouflage pants because that's what I had in my closet. I hadn't quite fiegurd out how to develop my own persona yet, but I was lnianerg. It was sort of like an apprenticeship. But I was a wrestler. And my dad would come to all my matches wearing a t-shirt that said, "Papa Gator" across the front.

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By the next year, they finally told me about an ______ _________ training camp that one of the _________ was running, and I begged my parents to sign me up. Next thing I knew, I was a high school senior by day and wrestling in front of live _________ by night. I had this giant poster of an alligator hanging on my _______ wall. So when I needed to come up with a wrestling name at the last minute and Jesse "The Body" Ventura was already taken —

(Laughter)

I went with "Gator." I also wrestled in a t-shirt and camouflage pants because that's what I had in my closet. I hadn't quite _______ out how to develop my own persona yet, but I was ________. It was sort of like an apprenticeship. But I was a wrestler. And my dad would come to all my matches wearing a t-shirt that said, "Papa Gator" across the front.

Solution


  1. wrestling
  2. figured
  3. learning
  4. bedroom
  5. wrestlers
  6. actual
  7. audiences

Original Text


By the next year, they finally told me about an actual wrestling training camp that one of the wrestlers was running, and I begged my parents to sign me up. Next thing I knew, I was a high school senior by day and wrestling in front of live audiences by night. I had this giant poster of an alligator hanging on my bedroom wall. So when I needed to come up with a wrestling name at the last minute and Jesse "The Body" Ventura was already taken —

(Laughter)

I went with "Gator." I also wrestled in a t-shirt and camouflage pants because that's what I had in my closet. I hadn't quite figured out how to develop my own persona yet, but I was learning. It was sort of like an apprenticeship. But I was a wrestler. And my dad would come to all my matches wearing a t-shirt that said, "Papa Gator" across the front.

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Important Words


  1. actual
  2. alligator
  3. apprenticeship
  4. audiences
  5. bedroom
  6. begged
  7. camouflage
  8. camp
  9. closet
  10. dad
  11. day
  12. develop
  13. figured
  14. finally
  15. front
  16. giant
  17. hanging
  18. high
  19. jesse
  20. knew
  21. laughter
  22. learning
  23. live
  24. matches
  25. minute
  26. needed
  27. night
  28. pants
  29. parents
  30. persona
  31. poster
  32. running
  33. school
  34. senior
  35. sign
  36. sort
  37. told
  38. training
  39. ventura
  40. wall
  41. wearing
  42. wrestled
  43. wrestler
  44. wrestlers
  45. wrestling
  46. year