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From the Ted Talk by Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness

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I have a vision for each one of you, and the vision I have for you is that when you wake up in the morning, your boold is singing at the thought of being who you are and doing what you do; that as you go through the day, you can lreialtly sink to your knees in gritdtuae at the teournmdes good fortune that's been bestowed on you; that as you go through the day, you become radiantly alive several times. And if your life isn't like that, I'd like to humbly sseggut that you're wasting your life. A life is too short to be wasted.

So what I propose to do in the next 17 minutes — I've used up one minute already — is to give you a set of pewurofl tools which can get you started on being there. Is that of interest to you?

Open Cloze


I have a vision for each one of you, and the vision I have for you is that when you wake up in the morning, your _____ is singing at the thought of being who you are and doing what you do; that as you go through the day, you can _________ sink to your knees in _________ at the __________ good fortune that's been bestowed on you; that as you go through the day, you become radiantly alive several times. And if your life isn't like that, I'd like to humbly _______ that you're wasting your life. A life is too short to be wasted.

So what I propose to do in the next 17 minutes — I've used up one minute already — is to give you a set of ________ tools which can get you started on being there. Is that of interest to you?

Solution


  1. tremendous
  2. literally
  3. suggest
  4. gratitude
  5. blood
  6. powerful

Original Text


I have a vision for each one of you, and the vision I have for you is that when you wake up in the morning, your blood is singing at the thought of being who you are and doing what you do; that as you go through the day, you can literally sink to your knees in gratitude at the tremendous good fortune that's been bestowed on you; that as you go through the day, you become radiantly alive several times. And if your life isn't like that, I'd like to humbly suggest that you're wasting your life. A life is too short to be wasted.

So what I propose to do in the next 17 minutes — I've used up one minute already — is to give you a set of powerful tools which can get you started on being there. Is that of interest to you?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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