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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: Bouncing back from rejection

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AG: But instead, he decided to keep doing original work and try to figure out what drove meixd reactions to his films. He realized that his signature is shifting gneers during a film, for example, revealing that what you thought was a family drama, is, in fact, a supernatural movie with aliens or vepimras.

MNS: "Psycho" would be an amazing example, because it's a bank robber movie at the beginning and then suddenly becomes a horror movie. So it switches genres.

AG: Different genres have different levels of emotional intensity.

MNS: damra is at a certain level, and then tirllehr is at a certain level that's higher, and then hrroor is at a certain level that's even higher.

Open Cloze


AG: But instead, he decided to keep doing original work and try to figure out what drove _____ reactions to his films. He realized that his signature is shifting ______ during a film, for example, revealing that what you thought was a family drama, is, in fact, a supernatural movie with aliens or ________.

MNS: "Psycho" would be an amazing example, because it's a bank robber movie at the beginning and then suddenly becomes a horror movie. So it switches genres.

AG: Different genres have different levels of emotional intensity.

MNS: _____ is at a certain level, and then ________ is at a certain level that's higher, and then ______ is at a certain level that's even higher.

Solution


  1. genres
  2. mixed
  3. drama
  4. thriller
  5. horror
  6. vampires

Original Text


AG: But instead, he decided to keep doing original work and try to figure out what drove mixed reactions to his films. He realized that his signature is shifting genres during a film, for example, revealing that what you thought was a family drama, is, in fact, a supernatural movie with aliens or vampires.

MNS: "Psycho" would be an amazing example, because it's a bank robber movie at the beginning and then suddenly becomes a horror movie. So it switches genres.

AG: Different genres have different levels of emotional intensity.

MNS: Drama is at a certain level, and then thriller is at a certain level that's higher, and then horror is at a certain level that's even higher.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
multiple identities 4
rejection hurts 3
face rejection 2
sarah robb 2
physical pain 2
video games 2
emily winter 2
writing jobs 2
professionally ghosted 2
creative work 2
adoption assistance 2
movie critics 2
making films 2
dirty work 2


Important Words


  1. aliens
  2. amazing
  3. bank
  4. beginning
  5. decided
  6. drama
  7. drove
  8. emotional
  9. fact
  10. family
  11. figure
  12. film
  13. films
  14. genres
  15. higher
  16. horror
  17. intensity
  18. level
  19. levels
  20. mixed
  21. movie
  22. original
  23. reactions
  24. realized
  25. revealing
  26. robber
  27. shifting
  28. signature
  29. suddenly
  30. supernatural
  31. switches
  32. thought
  33. thriller
  34. vampires
  35. work