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From the Ted Talk by Christina Costa: How gratitude rewires your brain

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I do want to take a second here and practice what I teach to shout out my dotorcs and their teams from the mhgiaicn Medicine Multidisciplinary Brain Tumor Clinic. I have never met such itlnelengit, kind and patient people. Thank you for making me feel brave when I sometimes felt the opposite.

I think the urvnisee might think it's funny that a psych iuscrnttor and rceehaersr who studies well-being ended up with a brain tumor. The truth is that we need more aernsaews and more research regarding brain tumors and brain cancer. Doctors can't exactly predict how my tumor will behave, and really, none of us can predict what our lives are going to be like exactly. But what I hope I can show you is that we can also be grateful for the unexpected challenges.

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I do want to take a second here and practice what I teach to shout out my _______ and their teams from the ________ Medicine Multidisciplinary Brain Tumor Clinic. I have never met such ___________, kind and patient people. Thank you for making me feel brave when I sometimes felt the opposite.

I think the ________ might think it's funny that a psych __________ and __________ who studies well-being ended up with a brain tumor. The truth is that we need more _________ and more research regarding brain tumors and brain cancer. Doctors can't exactly predict how my tumor will behave, and really, none of us can predict what our lives are going to be like exactly. But what I hope I can show you is that we can also be grateful for the unexpected challenges.

Solution


  1. doctors
  2. researcher
  3. intelligent
  4. michigan
  5. instructor
  6. universe
  7. awareness

Original Text


I do want to take a second here and practice what I teach to shout out my doctors and their teams from the Michigan Medicine Multidisciplinary Brain Tumor Clinic. I have never met such intelligent, kind and patient people. Thank you for making me feel brave when I sometimes felt the opposite.

I think the universe might think it's funny that a psych instructor and researcher who studies well-being ended up with a brain tumor. The truth is that we need more awareness and more research regarding brain tumors and brain cancer. Doctors can't exactly predict how my tumor will behave, and really, none of us can predict what our lives are going to be like exactly. But what I hope I can show you is that we can also be grateful for the unexpected challenges.

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