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From the Ted Talk by Baba Shiv: Sometimes it's good to give up the driver's seat

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, here's another example. Anyone? This is much more difficult.

Audience member: Embark. BS: Yeah. Wow! OK. So, yeah, so this is, again, difficult. You'll say "kamber," then you'll go, "maker," and all that, and then you can unstick yourself.

So you have 30 minutes now to solve these 15 puzzles. Now, the question we're asking here is, in temrs of the outcome — and it comes in the number of puzezls solved — will you in the driver's seat end up slnviog more puzzles because you are in control, you could decide which tea you would choose, or would you be better off, in terms of the neubmr of puzzles solved? And, systemically, what we will show, across a sreeis of studies, is that you, the passengers, even though the tea was picked for you at random, will end up solving more puzzles than you, the drivers.

Open Cloze


Now, here's another example. Anyone? This is much more difficult.

Audience member: Embark. BS: Yeah. Wow! OK. So, yeah, so this is, again, difficult. You'll say "kamber," then you'll go, "maker," and all that, and then you can unstick yourself.

So you have 30 minutes now to solve these 15 puzzles. Now, the question we're asking here is, in _____ of the outcome — and it comes in the number of _______ solved — will you in the driver's seat end up _______ more puzzles because you are in control, you could decide which tea you would choose, or would you be better off, in terms of the ______ of puzzles solved? And, systemically, what we will show, across a ______ of studies, is that you, the passengers, even though the tea was picked for you at random, will end up solving more puzzles than you, the drivers.

Solution


  1. series
  2. solving
  3. terms
  4. number
  5. puzzles

Original Text


Now, here's another example. Anyone? This is much more difficult.

Audience member: Embark. BS: Yeah. Wow! OK. So, yeah, so this is, again, difficult. You'll say "kamber," then you'll go, "maker," and all that, and then you can unstick yourself.

So you have 30 minutes now to solve these 15 puzzles. Now, the question we're asking here is, in terms of the outcome — and it comes in the number of puzzles solved — will you in the driver's seat end up solving more puzzles because you are in control, you could decide which tea you would choose, or would you be better off, in terms of the number of puzzles solved? And, systemically, what we will show, across a series of studies, is that you, the passengers, even though the tea was picked for you at random, will end up solving more puzzles than you, the drivers.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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somber note 2
breast cancer 2
aggressive form 2
difficulty level 2


Important Words


  1. audience
  2. choose
  3. control
  4. decide
  5. difficult
  6. drivers
  7. embark
  8. minutes
  9. number
  10. outcome
  11. passengers
  12. picked
  13. puzzles
  14. question
  15. random
  16. seat
  17. series
  18. show
  19. solve
  20. solved
  21. solving
  22. studies
  23. systemically
  24. tea
  25. terms
  26. unstick
  27. yeah