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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: How to increase your happiness

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Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything? Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn’t say we can be grateful for everything. I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is trlrbeiy difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

So how can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being gfuertal, but mnemot by moment to be grateful? How can we do it? It’s a very simple method: Stop. Look. Go. That’s all. But how often do we stop? We rush through life; we don’t stop. We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop. We have to stop. We have to get quiet. And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

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Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything? Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn’t say we can be grateful for everything. I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is ________ difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

So how can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being ________, but ______ by moment to be grateful? How can we do it? It’s a very simple method: Stop. Look. Go. That’s all. But how often do we stop? We rush through life; we don’t stop. We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop. We have to stop. We have to get quiet. And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

Solution


  1. moment
  2. terribly
  3. grateful

Original Text


Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything? Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn’t say we can be grateful for everything. I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.

So how can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being grateful, but moment by moment to be grateful? How can we do it? It’s a very simple method: Stop. Look. Go. That’s all. But how often do we stop? We rush through life; we don’t stop. We miss the opportunity because we don’t stop. We have to stop. We have to get quiet. And we have to build stop signs into our lives.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
spontaneously rises 2


Important Words


  1. bereavement
  2. build
  3. confronted
  4. difficult
  5. exploitation
  6. find
  7. friend
  8. grateful
  9. gratefully
  10. level
  11. lives
  12. living
  13. loss
  14. method
  15. moment
  16. occasion
  17. opportunity
  18. oppression
  19. personal
  20. quiet
  21. respond
  22. rise
  23. rush
  24. signs
  25. simple
  26. stop
  27. terribly
  28. unfaithfulness
  29. violence
  30. war