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From the Ted Talk by Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything

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I'm not perfect at it. In fact, I fail as often as I succeed, seeing fdienrs, reading books, staring into space. "Wanna play?" starts to become shorthand for indulging myself in ways I'd given up on right around the time I got my first TV show, right around the time I became a titan-in-training, right around the time I started cmoeitpng with myself for ways unkownn. 15 minutes? What could be wrong with givnig myself my full atttnioen for 15 minutes? Turns out, nothing. The very act of not working has made it possible for the hum to return, as if the hum's engine could only reufel while I was away. Work doesn't work without play.

Open Cloze


I'm not perfect at it. In fact, I fail as often as I succeed, seeing _______, reading books, staring into space. "Wanna play?" starts to become shorthand for indulging myself in ways I'd given up on right around the time I got my first TV show, right around the time I became a titan-in-training, right around the time I started _________ with myself for ways _______. 15 minutes? What could be wrong with ______ myself my full _________ for 15 minutes? Turns out, nothing. The very act of not working has made it possible for the hum to return, as if the hum's engine could only ______ while I was away. Work doesn't work without play.

Solution


  1. friends
  2. attention
  3. competing
  4. unknown
  5. refuel
  6. giving

Original Text


I'm not perfect at it. In fact, I fail as often as I succeed, seeing friends, reading books, staring into space. "Wanna play?" starts to become shorthand for indulging myself in ways I'd given up on right around the time I got my first TV show, right around the time I became a titan-in-training, right around the time I started competing with myself for ways unknown. 15 minutes? What could be wrong with giving myself my full attention for 15 minutes? Turns out, nothing. The very act of not working has made it possible for the hum to return, as if the hum's engine could only refuel while I was away. Work doesn't work without play.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
dream job 6
real hum 6
southern waitress 4
million dollars 3
hum stopped 3
titan dream 2
high note 2
love working 2
sticky fingers 2
child asks 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
titan dream job 2

Important Words


  1. act
  2. attention
  3. books
  4. competing
  5. engine
  6. fact
  7. fail
  8. friends
  9. full
  10. giving
  11. hum
  12. indulging
  13. minutes
  14. perfect
  15. play
  16. reading
  17. refuel
  18. return
  19. shorthand
  20. show
  21. space
  22. staring
  23. started
  24. starts
  25. succeed
  26. time
  27. turns
  28. tv
  29. unknown
  30. ways
  31. work
  32. working
  33. wrong