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From the Ted Talk by Ethan Hawke: Give yourself permission to be creative

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So, if you want to help your community, if you want to help your family, if you want to help your fdnries, you have to eexsrps yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. It's actually super easy. You just have to follow your love. There is no path. There's no path till you walk it, and you have to be willing to play the fool. So don't read the book that you should read, read the book you want to read. Don't listen to the music that you used to like. Take some time to listen to some new music. Take some time to talk to somebody that you don't normally talk to. I guarantee, if you do that, you will feel foilosh. That's the point. Play the fool.

Open Cloze


It's a thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about __________, because it can have this kind of feel that it's just nice, you know, or it's warm or it's something pleasant. It's not. It's vital. It's the way we heal each other. In singing our song, in telling our _____, in inviting you to say, "Hey, listen to me, and I'll listen to you," we're ________ a ________. And when you do that, this healing happens, and we come out of our corners, and we start to witness each other's common humanity. We _____ to assert it. And when we do that, really good things ______.

So, if you want to help your community, if you want to help your family, if you want to help your _______, you have to _______ yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. It's actually super easy. You just have to follow your love. There is no path. There's no path till you walk it, and you have to be willing to play the fool. So don't read the book that you should read, read the book you want to read. Don't listen to the music that you used to like. Take some time to listen to some new music. Take some time to talk to somebody that you don't normally talk to. I guarantee, if you do that, you will feel _______. That's the point. Play the fool.

Solution


  1. happen
  2. friends
  3. creativity
  4. dialogue
  5. starting
  6. express
  7. foolish
  8. story
  9. start

Original Text


It's a thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about creativity, because it can have this kind of feel that it's just nice, you know, or it's warm or it's something pleasant. It's not. It's vital. It's the way we heal each other. In singing our song, in telling our story, in inviting you to say, "Hey, listen to me, and I'll listen to you," we're starting a dialogue. And when you do that, this healing happens, and we come out of our corners, and we start to witness each other's common humanity. We start to assert it. And when we do that, really good things happen.

So, if you want to help your community, if you want to help your family, if you want to help your friends, you have to express yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. It's actually super easy. You just have to follow your love. There is no path. There's no path till you walk it, and you have to be willing to play the fool. So don't read the book that you should read, read the book you want to read. Don't listen to the music that you used to like. Take some time to listen to some new music. Take some time to talk to somebody that you don't normally talk to. I guarantee, if you do that, you will feel foolish. That's the point. Play the fool.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
human creativity 2


Important Words


  1. assert
  2. book
  3. common
  4. community
  5. corners
  6. creativity
  7. dialogue
  8. easy
  9. express
  10. family
  11. feel
  12. follow
  13. fool
  14. foolish
  15. friends
  16. good
  17. guarantee
  18. happen
  19. heal
  20. healing
  21. humanity
  22. inviting
  23. kind
  24. listen
  25. love
  26. music
  27. nice
  28. path
  29. play
  30. pleasant
  31. point
  32. read
  33. singing
  34. song
  35. start
  36. starting
  37. story
  38. super
  39. talk
  40. telling
  41. time
  42. vital
  43. walk
  44. warm
  45. witness
  46. worries