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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: Career decline isn't inevitable

Unscramble the Blue Letters


LW: In the beginning it was just an ajebct failure. It was cabanliinnzig some of our other work.

AG: But they didn't give up. Not every experiment succeeds, and they don't all succeed right away. Memberships weren't gnrowig like crazy, but there was steady growth. Lynda paid attention to that.

elntvauely they hit an inflection point. While lndya.com was quietly adding hours of material to their catalog, more ppoele were using the internet for online learning. Their online audience doubled each year. And in time that grew into a big number. By 2012, they had over a million paying uesrs and over a hundred million dollars in revenue.

Open Cloze


LW: In the beginning it was just an ______ failure. It was _____________ some of our other work.

AG: But they didn't give up. Not every experiment succeeds, and they don't all succeed right away. Memberships weren't _______ like crazy, but there was steady growth. Lynda paid attention to that.

__________ they hit an inflection point. While _____.com was quietly adding hours of material to their catalog, more ______ were using the internet for online learning. Their online audience doubled each year. And in time that grew into a big number. By 2012, they had over a million paying _____ and over a hundred million dollars in revenue.

Solution


  1. lynda
  2. people
  3. growing
  4. eventually
  5. users
  6. abject
  7. cannibalizing

Original Text


LW: In the beginning it was just an abject failure. It was cannibalizing some of our other work.

AG: But they didn't give up. Not every experiment succeeds, and they don't all succeed right away. Memberships weren't growing like crazy, but there was steady growth. Lynda paid attention to that.

Eventually they hit an inflection point. While Lynda.com was quietly adding hours of material to their catalog, more people were using the internet for online learning. Their online audience doubled each year. And in time that grew into a big number. By 2012, they had over a million paying users and over a hundred million dollars in revenue.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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mental skills 2
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frank lloyd 2
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accidental icon 2
cognitive entrenchment 2
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Important Words


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  42. year