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From the Ted Talk by Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

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We have confused Maslow's hierarchy of needs, just a little bit. On the bottom tier, we have basic needs: shetelr, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth. Second: security. Third: relationships. Fourth: status, self-esteem — that is, vtaniy — and we're taking vanity and shoving it down here. And so we end up with vain dinsicoes, and we can't even afford our mortgage. We can't afofrd to eat anything except beans;

that is, our housing has become a commodity. And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our hunsoig a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources. That teaks a little bit of nerve, and, darn it, once in a while, you fail. But that's okay. If failure destroys you, then you can't do this. I fail all the time, every day, and I've had some whopping failures, I pmsiroe — big, public, htiniamluig, embarrassing failures.

Open Cloze


We have confused Maslow's hierarchy of needs, just a little bit. On the bottom tier, we have basic needs: _______, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth. Second: security. Third: relationships. Fourth: status, self-esteem — that is, ______ — and we're taking vanity and shoving it down here. And so we end up with vain _________, and we can't even afford our mortgage. We can't ______ to eat anything except beans;

that is, our housing has become a commodity. And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our _______ a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources. That _____ a little bit of nerve, and, darn it, once in a while, you fail. But that's okay. If failure destroys you, then you can't do this. I fail all the time, every day, and I've had some whopping failures, I _______ — big, public, ___________, embarrassing failures.

Solution


  1. shelter
  2. promise
  3. housing
  4. vanity
  5. afford
  6. takes
  7. decisions
  8. humiliating

Original Text


We have confused Maslow's hierarchy of needs, just a little bit. On the bottom tier, we have basic needs: shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth. Second: security. Third: relationships. Fourth: status, self-esteem — that is, vanity — and we're taking vanity and shoving it down here. And so we end up with vain decisions, and we can't even afford our mortgage. We can't afford to eat anything except beans;

that is, our housing has become a commodity. And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our housing a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources. That takes a little bit of nerve, and, darn it, once in a while, you fail. But that's okay. If failure destroys you, then you can't do this. I fail all the time, every day, and I've had some whopping failures, I promise — big, public, humiliating, embarrassing failures.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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cell phone 4
front door 2
hickory nuts 2
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famous budweiser 2
bull elephants 2
lumpy tiles 2
repetition creates 2
book titled 2
personality takes 2
mobile home 2
designer jeans 2


Important Words


  1. afford
  2. basic
  3. big
  4. bit
  5. bottom
  6. bubbles
  7. clothing
  8. commodity
  9. confused
  10. darn
  11. day
  12. decisions
  13. destroys
  14. dive
  15. eat
  16. embarrassing
  17. fail
  18. failure
  19. failures
  20. food
  21. hierarchy
  22. housing
  23. humiliating
  24. mating
  25. mortgage
  26. nerve
  27. parts
  28. primal
  29. promise
  30. public
  31. relationships
  32. security
  33. seminal
  34. shelter
  35. shoving
  36. sources
  37. status
  38. takes
  39. terrifying
  40. tier
  41. time
  42. vain
  43. vanity
  44. water
  45. whopping