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From the Ted Talk by Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake

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But as I searched around in the dkaensrs, I rielazed I was actually paralyzed by all of the choices that I never had before. And it was then that I thought back to my jittery hands. erambce the shake. And I realized, if I ever wanted my creativity back, I had to quit trying so hard to think outside of the box and get back into it.

I wondered, could you become more creative, then, by looking for limitations? What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies? At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in — well, I geuss I still spend a lot of my evenings in sbturkacs — but I know you can ask for an ertxa cup if you want one, so I decided to ask for 50. Surprisingly, they just handed them right over, and then with some pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents. It really became a moment of clarification for me that we need to first be ltiiemd in order to become limitless.

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But as I searched around in the ________, I ________ I was actually paralyzed by all of the choices that I never had before. And it was then that I thought back to my jittery hands. _______ the shake. And I realized, if I ever wanted my creativity back, I had to quit trying so hard to think outside of the box and get back into it.

I wondered, could you become more creative, then, by looking for limitations? What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies? At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in — well, I _____ I still spend a lot of my evenings in _________ — but I know you can ask for an _____ cup if you want one, so I decided to ask for 50. Surprisingly, they just handed them right over, and then with some pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents. It really became a moment of clarification for me that we need to first be _______ in order to become limitless.

Solution


  1. embrace
  2. guess
  3. realized
  4. darkness
  5. extra
  6. limited
  7. starbucks

Original Text


But as I searched around in the darkness, I realized I was actually paralyzed by all of the choices that I never had before. And it was then that I thought back to my jittery hands. Embrace the shake. And I realized, if I ever wanted my creativity back, I had to quit trying so hard to think outside of the box and get back into it.

I wondered, could you become more creative, then, by looking for limitations? What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies? At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in — well, I guess I still spend a lot of my evenings in Starbucks — but I know you can ask for an extra cup if you want one, so I decided to ask for 50. Surprisingly, they just handed them right over, and then with some pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents. It really became a moment of clarification for me that we need to first be limited in order to become limitless.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. box
  2. cents
  3. choices
  4. clarification
  5. create
  6. creative
  7. creativity
  8. cup
  9. darkness
  10. decided
  11. embrace
  12. evenings
  13. extra
  14. guess
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  16. hands
  17. hard
  18. jittery
  19. limitations
  20. limited
  21. limitless
  22. lot
  23. moment
  24. order
  25. paralyzed
  26. pencils
  27. point
  28. project
  29. quit
  30. realized
  31. searched
  32. shake
  33. spend
  34. spending
  35. starbucks
  36. supplies
  37. surprisingly
  38. thought
  39. wanted
  40. wondered
  41. worth