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From the Ted Talk by Valerie Montgomery Rice: How to break through fear and become a leader

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You can still be afraid, and so you may not be able to cancel that fear out completely, but you can put it to sleep. You can learn how to lean into your fear. And I think the best way to do that is to do something over and over and over again, successfully. I believe it's a seewporpur.

It's the superpower my mother had. She could multitask, she could go to work, she could cook and clean, she could go to work, she could run errands, she could come back to work. And then she still had eamtphy. She failed, she succeeded. Not always, guys, to joy, but to coeptolimn. And I rgncozeeid that I had to do the same thing.

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You can still be afraid, and so you may not be able to cancel that fear out completely, but you can put it to sleep. You can learn how to lean into your fear. And I think the best way to do that is to do something over and over and over again, successfully. I believe it's a __________.

It's the superpower my mother had. She could multitask, she could go to work, she could cook and clean, she could go to work, she could run errands, she could come back to work. And then she still had _______. She failed, she succeeded. Not always, guys, to joy, but to __________. And I __________ that I had to do the same thing.

Solution


  1. completion
  2. empathy
  3. recognized
  4. superpower

Original Text


You can still be afraid, and so you may not be able to cancel that fear out completely, but you can put it to sleep. You can learn how to lean into your fear. And I think the best way to do that is to do something over and over and over again, successfully. I believe it's a superpower.

It's the superpower my mother had. She could multitask, she could go to work, she could cook and clean, she could go to work, she could run errands, she could come back to work. And then she still had empathy. She failed, she succeeded. Not always, guys, to joy, but to completion. And I recognized that I had to do the same thing.

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