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From the Ted Talk by Chip Conley: An alternative to the "midlife crisis"

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Just as a caterpillar eats incessantly just before it's about to spin its chrysalis, so do we, as young adults, madly consume and produce. And then, the caterpillar decides to take its midlife break in its chrysalis, which is dark and gooey and solitary, but it's also where the transformation happens. On the other side of that, there's a crayslhis that cracks open, and this beautiful winged creature emerges that delights us all: the butterfly.

So to recap, the caerilptlar cmsuneos, the chrysalis transforms and the butterfly pollinates. What if we rethought midlife, such that it's not a crisis, it's a chrysalis. The miidfle chrysalis. What if we thought of midlife as the dawning of a new age? An age where much of what we accumulated dilseosvs? Just as we're ready to transform, searpd our wings and pollinate our wisdom to the world in our 50s and beyond.

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Just as a caterpillar eats incessantly just before it's about to spin its chrysalis, so do we, as young adults, madly consume and produce. And then, the caterpillar decides to take its midlife break in its chrysalis, which is dark and gooey and solitary, but it's also where the transformation happens. On the other side of that, there's a _________ that cracks open, and this beautiful winged creature emerges that delights us all: the butterfly.

So to recap, the ___________ ________, the chrysalis transforms and the butterfly pollinates. What if we rethought midlife, such that it's not a crisis, it's a chrysalis. The _______ chrysalis. What if we thought of midlife as the dawning of a new age? An age where much of what we accumulated _________? Just as we're ready to transform, ______ our wings and pollinate our wisdom to the world in our 50s and beyond.

Solution


  1. caterpillar
  2. midlife
  3. chrysalis
  4. dissolves
  5. consumes
  6. spread

Original Text


Just as a caterpillar eats incessantly just before it's about to spin its chrysalis, so do we, as young adults, madly consume and produce. And then, the caterpillar decides to take its midlife break in its chrysalis, which is dark and gooey and solitary, but it's also where the transformation happens. On the other side of that, there's a chrysalis that cracks open, and this beautiful winged creature emerges that delights us all: the butterfly.

So to recap, the caterpillar consumes, the chrysalis transforms and the butterfly pollinates. What if we rethought midlife, such that it's not a crisis, it's a chrysalis. The midlife chrysalis. What if we thought of midlife as the dawning of a new age? An age where much of what we accumulated dissolves? Just as we're ready to transform, spread our wings and pollinate our wisdom to the world in our 50s and beyond.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
footnote midlife 2
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Important Words


  1. accumulated
  2. adults
  3. age
  4. beautiful
  5. break
  6. butterfly
  7. caterpillar
  8. chrysalis
  9. consume
  10. consumes
  11. cracks
  12. creature
  13. crisis
  14. dark
  15. dawning
  16. decides
  17. delights
  18. dissolves
  19. eats
  20. emerges
  21. gooey
  22. incessantly
  23. madly
  24. midlife
  25. open
  26. pollinate
  27. pollinates
  28. produce
  29. ready
  30. recap
  31. rethought
  32. side
  33. solitary
  34. spin
  35. spread
  36. thought
  37. transform
  38. transformation
  39. transforms
  40. winged
  41. wings
  42. wisdom
  43. world
  44. young