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From the Ted Talk by Tracy Edwards: Stop being a bystander in your own life

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I actually magnaed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat. It was with 17 South ariacfn men and me. I was 21 years old, and it was the longest nine months of my life. But I went as a cook, I managed to survive until the end, and when I got to end of this race, I realized that there were 230 crew in this race, and three women, and I was one of them. And I'm a lousy cook. I'm a really good navigator.

I think the second most profound thghout in my entire life was: "No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever." And that is still the case today. In 35 yreas of the Whitbread, there's only been two female navigators that haven't been on an all-female cruise, and that's how Maiden was born. That was the menomt I thought, "I've got something to fight for." And I had no idea that I wanted to have this fight, and it was something that I took to like a duck to wetar. I doisecervd things about myself that I had no idea existed. I discovered I had a ftgihing spirit, I discovered I was competitive — never knew that before — and I discovered my second passion, which was equality. I couldn't let this one lie. And it became not just about me wanting to naiavtge on a boat and having to put my own crew together and my own team, raise my own money, find my own boat, so that I could be navigator. This was about women everywhere. And this was when I rlzeeaid that this was probably what I was going to spend the rest of my life doing.

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I actually _______ to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat. It was with 17 South _______ men and me. I was 21 years old, and it was the longest nine months of my life. But I went as a cook, I managed to survive until the end, and when I got to end of this race, I realized that there were 230 crew in this race, and three women, and I was one of them. And I'm a lousy cook. I'm a really good navigator.

I think the second most profound _______ in my entire life was: "No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever." And that is still the case today. In 35 _____ of the Whitbread, there's only been two female navigators that haven't been on an all-female cruise, and that's how Maiden was born. That was the ______ I thought, "I've got something to fight for." And I had no idea that I wanted to have this fight, and it was something that I took to like a duck to _____. I __________ things about myself that I had no idea existed. I discovered I had a ________ spirit, I discovered I was competitive — never knew that before — and I discovered my second passion, which was equality. I couldn't let this one lie. And it became not just about me wanting to ________ on a boat and having to put my own crew together and my own team, raise my own money, find my own boat, so that I could be navigator. This was about women everywhere. And this was when I ________ that this was probably what I was going to spend the rest of my life doing.

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  3. thought
  4. discovered
  5. moment
  6. fighting
  7. managed
  8. african
  9. navigate
  10. water

Original Text


I actually managed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat. It was with 17 South African men and me. I was 21 years old, and it was the longest nine months of my life. But I went as a cook, I managed to survive until the end, and when I got to end of this race, I realized that there were 230 crew in this race, and three women, and I was one of them. And I'm a lousy cook. I'm a really good navigator.

I think the second most profound thought in my entire life was: "No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever." And that is still the case today. In 35 years of the Whitbread, there's only been two female navigators that haven't been on an all-female cruise, and that's how Maiden was born. That was the moment I thought, "I've got something to fight for." And I had no idea that I wanted to have this fight, and it was something that I took to like a duck to water. I discovered things about myself that I had no idea existed. I discovered I had a fighting spirit, I discovered I was competitive — never knew that before — and I discovered my second passion, which was equality. I couldn't let this one lie. And it became not just about me wanting to navigate on a boat and having to put my own crew together and my own team, raise my own money, find my own boat, so that I could be navigator. This was about women everywhere. And this was when I realized that this was probably what I was going to spend the rest of my life doing.

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