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From the Ted Talk by Darria Long: An ER doctor on triaging your "crazy busy" life

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Red — immediately life-threatening. Yellow — serious, but not immediately life-threatening. geern — moinr. And we focus our efforts first on the reds. Now hear this. Part of the peolbrm in Crazy Mode is that you are reacting to everything as if it is red. So start by triaging correctly. Know your reds. They're what is most important and where you can most move the needle.

Now it's easy to be confused by noise, but what it nsseioit is not always what is most red. In fact, my severe asthmatic patient is most at risk when he's quiet. But my patient over here, demanding that I birng her frvealod coffee creamer, she's noisy, but she's not red.

Open Cloze


Red — immediately life-threatening. Yellow — serious, but not immediately life-threatening. _____ — _____. And we focus our efforts first on the reds. Now hear this. Part of the _______ in Crazy Mode is that you are reacting to everything as if it is red. So start by triaging correctly. Know your reds. They're what is most important and where you can most move the needle.

Now it's easy to be confused by noise, but what it ________ is not always what is most red. In fact, my severe asthmatic patient is most at risk when he's quiet. But my patient over here, demanding that I _____ her ________ coffee creamer, she's noisy, but she's not red.

Solution


  1. minor
  2. flavored
  3. bring
  4. noisiest
  5. green
  6. problem

Original Text


Red — immediately life-threatening. Yellow — serious, but not immediately life-threatening. Green — minor. And we focus our efforts first on the reds. Now hear this. Part of the problem in Crazy Mode is that you are reacting to everything as if it is red. So start by triaging correctly. Know your reds. They're what is most important and where you can most move the needle.

Now it's easy to be confused by noise, but what it noisiest is not always what is most red. In fact, my severe asthmatic patient is most at risk when he's quiet. But my patient over here, demanding that I bring her flavored coffee creamer, she's noisy, but she's not red.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
ready mode 6
crazy mode 6
crazy busy 3
internal monologue 3
stress hormones 2
relentlessly triage 2
green task 2
tunnel vision 2


Important Words


  1. asthmatic
  2. bring
  3. coffee
  4. confused
  5. correctly
  6. crazy
  7. creamer
  8. demanding
  9. easy
  10. efforts
  11. fact
  12. flavored
  13. focus
  14. green
  15. hear
  16. immediately
  17. important
  18. minor
  19. mode
  20. move
  21. needle
  22. noise
  23. noisiest
  24. noisy
  25. part
  26. patient
  27. problem
  28. quiet
  29. reacting
  30. red
  31. reds
  32. risk
  33. severe
  34. start
  35. triaging
  36. yellow