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From the Ted Talk by Liz Fosslien: How to embrace emotions at work

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, that's not to say you should snluddey become a feelings fire hose. A line exists between srnaihg, which builds tusrt, and oversharing, which destroys it. If you suddenly let your feelings run wild at work and give people far more information than they bargained for, you make everyone around you uncomfortable and you also undermine yourself. You're more likely to be seen as weak or lacking self awareness, so, great to say you weren't fineelg well last night — you don't need to go into every lruid detail about how you got reacquainted with your half-digested dinner.

So there's a wide spectrum of emotional expression. On one hand, you have under-emoters, or people who have a hard time talking about their fieeglns, and on the other end are over-emoters, those who constantly share everything that's going on inside, and neither of these make for a healthy workplace.

Open Cloze


Now, that's not to say you should ________ become a feelings fire hose. A line exists between _______, which builds _____, and oversharing, which destroys it. If you suddenly let your feelings run wild at work and give people far more information than they bargained for, you make everyone around you uncomfortable and you also undermine yourself. You're more likely to be seen as weak or lacking self awareness, so, great to say you weren't _______ well last night — you don't need to go into every _____ detail about how you got reacquainted with your half-digested dinner.

So there's a wide spectrum of emotional expression. On one hand, you have under-emoters, or people who have a hard time talking about their ________, and on the other end are over-emoters, those who constantly share everything that's going on inside, and neither of these make for a healthy workplace.

Solution


  1. sharing
  2. trust
  3. lurid
  4. feeling
  5. feelings
  6. suddenly

Original Text


Now, that's not to say you should suddenly become a feelings fire hose. A line exists between sharing, which builds trust, and oversharing, which destroys it. If you suddenly let your feelings run wild at work and give people far more information than they bargained for, you make everyone around you uncomfortable and you also undermine yourself. You're more likely to be seen as weak or lacking self awareness, so, great to say you weren't feeling well last night — you don't need to go into every lurid detail about how you got reacquainted with your half-digested dinner.

So there's a wide spectrum of emotional expression. On one hand, you have under-emoters, or people who have a hard time talking about their feelings, and on the other end are over-emoters, those who constantly share everything that's going on inside, and neither of these make for a healthy workplace.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
selective vulnerability 3
emotional expression 2


Important Words


  1. awareness
  2. bargained
  3. builds
  4. constantly
  5. destroys
  6. detail
  7. dinner
  8. emotional
  9. exists
  10. expression
  11. feeling
  12. feelings
  13. fire
  14. give
  15. great
  16. hand
  17. hard
  18. healthy
  19. hose
  20. information
  21. lacking
  22. line
  23. lurid
  24. night
  25. oversharing
  26. people
  27. reacquainted
  28. run
  29. share
  30. sharing
  31. spectrum
  32. suddenly
  33. talking
  34. time
  35. trust
  36. uncomfortable
  37. undermine
  38. weak
  39. wide
  40. wild
  41. work
  42. workplace