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From the Ted Talk by Luvvie Ajayi Jones: How to be a professional troublemaker

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WPR: And to this point, Dennis asks, "How do you pick your battles to maintain your energy every day? How do you decide which trouble's worth miknag?"

LAJ: Great question. Sometimes, I just ... don't have the energy to make trouble on that day. What that manes is, if I am in a meeting, and on that day, I'm wiped, and I'm just like, "I don't have the egnrey to even be the one that's challenging," on that day, I might be quiet. So I just need more people to feel the obligation to also make the good trluboe, so the one peorsn who's always doing it can take a rest.

WPR: I mean, it sounds like a big part of this is understanding yourself, right? Is uidnanrntedsg the sorts of things you want to go after. And we have an anonymous question where somebody asks, "I think being a troublemaker also requires us to itenifdy what we truly want. What's your advice on finding out what you want?"

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WPR: And to this point, Dennis asks, "How do you pick your battles to maintain your energy every day? How do you decide which trouble's worth ______?"

LAJ: Great question. Sometimes, I just ... don't have the energy to make trouble on that day. What that _____ is, if I am in a meeting, and on that day, I'm wiped, and I'm just like, "I don't have the ______ to even be the one that's challenging," on that day, I might be quiet. So I just need more people to feel the obligation to also make the good _______, so the one ______ who's always doing it can take a rest.

WPR: I mean, it sounds like a big part of this is understanding yourself, right? Is _____________ the sorts of things you want to go after. And we have an anonymous question where somebody asks, "I think being a troublemaker also requires us to ________ what we truly want. What's your advice on finding out what you want?"

Solution


  1. trouble
  2. means
  3. person
  4. energy
  5. understanding
  6. identify
  7. making

Original Text


WPR: And to this point, Dennis asks, "How do you pick your battles to maintain your energy every day? How do you decide which trouble's worth making?"

LAJ: Great question. Sometimes, I just ... don't have the energy to make trouble on that day. What that means is, if I am in a meeting, and on that day, I'm wiped, and I'm just like, "I don't have the energy to even be the one that's challenging," on that day, I might be quiet. So I just need more people to feel the obligation to also make the good trouble, so the one person who's always doing it can take a rest.

WPR: I mean, it sounds like a big part of this is understanding yourself, right? Is understanding the sorts of things you want to go after. And we have an anonymous question where somebody asks, "I think being a troublemaker also requires us to identify what we truly want. What's your advice on finding out what you want?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. advice
  2. anonymous
  3. asks
  4. battles
  5. big
  6. challenging
  7. day
  8. decide
  9. dennis
  10. energy
  11. feel
  12. finding
  13. good
  14. great
  15. identify
  16. maintain
  17. making
  18. means
  19. meeting
  20. obligation
  21. part
  22. people
  23. person
  24. pick
  25. point
  26. question
  27. quiet
  28. requires
  29. rest
  30. sorts
  31. sounds
  32. trouble
  33. troublemaker
  34. understanding
  35. wiped
  36. worth