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From the Ted Talk by Shimpei Takahashi: Play this word game to come up with original ideas

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Ideas that didn't come out while you strae at the data will start to come out. Actually, this bubble wrap, which is used to pack fragile objects, coimnebd with a toy, made Mugen Pop Pop, a toy where you can pop the bubbles as much as you like. It was a big hit when it reached stores. Data had nothing to do with its success. Although it's only ponpipg bubbles, it's a great way to kill time, so please pass this around amongst yourselves today and play with it. (Applause)

Anyway, you continue to come up with usseles ideas. Think up many trivial ideas, everyone. If you base your ideas on data analysis and know what you're aiming for, you'll end up trying too hard, and you can't produce new ideas. Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes ceslod. If you do this, you surely will hit somewhere near the center. At least one will. That's the one you should cshooe. If you do so, that idea will be in deanmd and, moreover, it will be banrd new. That is how I think of new ieads.

Open Cloze


Ideas that didn't come out while you _____ at the data will start to come out. Actually, this bubble wrap, which is used to pack fragile objects, ________ with a toy, made Mugen Pop Pop, a toy where you can pop the bubbles as much as you like. It was a big hit when it reached stores. Data had nothing to do with its success. Although it's only _______ bubbles, it's a great way to kill time, so please pass this around amongst yourselves today and play with it. (Applause)

Anyway, you continue to come up with _______ ideas. Think up many trivial ideas, everyone. If you base your ideas on data analysis and know what you're aiming for, you'll end up trying too hard, and you can't produce new ideas. Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes ______. If you do this, you surely will hit somewhere near the center. At least one will. That's the one you should ______. If you do so, that idea will be in ______ and, moreover, it will be _____ new. That is how I think of new _____.

Solution


  1. choose
  2. useless
  3. combined
  4. ideas
  5. demand
  6. popping
  7. closed
  8. stare
  9. brand

Original Text


Ideas that didn't come out while you stare at the data will start to come out. Actually, this bubble wrap, which is used to pack fragile objects, combined with a toy, made Mugen Pop Pop, a toy where you can pop the bubbles as much as you like. It was a big hit when it reached stores. Data had nothing to do with its success. Although it's only popping bubbles, it's a great way to kill time, so please pass this around amongst yourselves today and play with it. (Applause)

Anyway, you continue to come up with useless ideas. Think up many trivial ideas, everyone. If you base your ideas on data analysis and know what you're aiming for, you'll end up trying too hard, and you can't produce new ideas. Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes closed. If you do this, you surely will hit somewhere near the center. At least one will. That's the one you should choose. If you do so, that idea will be in demand and, moreover, it will be brand new. That is how I think of new ideas.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
market data 2
game called 2
previous word 2
choose words 2


Important Words


  1. aim
  2. aiming
  3. analysis
  4. applause
  5. base
  6. big
  7. brand
  8. bubble
  9. bubbles
  10. center
  11. choose
  12. closed
  13. combined
  14. continue
  15. darts
  16. data
  17. demand
  18. eyes
  19. fragile
  20. freely
  21. great
  22. hard
  23. hit
  24. idea
  25. ideas
  26. kill
  27. mugen
  28. objects
  29. pack
  30. pass
  31. play
  32. pop
  33. popping
  34. produce
  35. reached
  36. stare
  37. start
  38. stores
  39. success
  40. surely
  41. throwing
  42. time
  43. today
  44. toy
  45. trivial
  46. useless
  47. wrap