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From the Ted Talk by Allyson Felix: An Olympic champion's mindset for overcoming fear

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During the pandemic, we all saw what happens when that thin line between our professional and personal lvies permanently blurs. We have seen women step back, give up, drop out, as having it all became doing it all, and doing it all became impossible. We have got to stop forcing people to choose between parenting and doing the work that they love. And we've got to stop pretending that we're not making those decisions because the results affect us all. Not just women, but men and our cerhidln, too. By creating the evnnimreont that we all live, work, love and raise our families in.

Isn't it past time that we call out the hypocrisy and create a new normal? One with real generosity, humanity and truth at the center, not some mpiaelcsd sense of what benissus is or does. We should say what we will taertole. And as we all revecor from the pandemic that has fltetenad us, let's just not rebuild the same version of the breokn system that we had before. But let's learn and create something new.

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During the pandemic, we all saw what happens when that thin line between our professional and personal _____ permanently blurs. We have seen women step back, give up, drop out, as having it all became doing it all, and doing it all became impossible. We have got to stop forcing people to choose between parenting and doing the work that they love. And we've got to stop pretending that we're not making those decisions because the results affect us all. Not just women, but men and our ________, too. By creating the ___________ that we all live, work, love and raise our families in.

Isn't it past time that we call out the hypocrisy and create a new normal? One with real generosity, humanity and truth at the center, not some _________ sense of what ________ is or does. We should say what we will ________. And as we all _______ from the pandemic that has _________ us, let's just not rebuild the same version of the ______ system that we had before. But let's learn and create something new.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. environment
  3. flattened
  4. recover
  5. misplaced
  6. children
  7. business
  8. broken
  9. tolerate

Original Text


During the pandemic, we all saw what happens when that thin line between our professional and personal lives permanently blurs. We have seen women step back, give up, drop out, as having it all became doing it all, and doing it all became impossible. We have got to stop forcing people to choose between parenting and doing the work that they love. And we've got to stop pretending that we're not making those decisions because the results affect us all. Not just women, but men and our children, too. By creating the environment that we all live, work, love and raise our families in.

Isn't it past time that we call out the hypocrisy and create a new normal? One with real generosity, humanity and truth at the center, not some misplaced sense of what business is or does. We should say what we will tolerate. And as we all recover from the pandemic that has flattened us, let's just not rebuild the same version of the broken system that we had before. But let's learn and create something new.

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