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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

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But in both cases, it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self-restoration, and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as swiftly and smoothly as you can, and if you're wondering what your home is, here's a hint: Your home is whatever in this wrlod you love more than you love yourself. So that might be cttaeirivy, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your eeeignrs with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become isneaciotnuqnel.

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But in both cases, it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self-restoration, and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as swiftly and smoothly as you can, and if you're wondering what your home is, here's a hint: Your home is whatever in this _____ you love more than you love yourself. So that might be __________, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your ________ with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become _______________.

Solution


  1. creativity
  2. world
  3. inconsequential
  4. energies

Original Text


But in both cases, it turns out that there is also the same remedy for self-restoration, and that is that you have got to find your way back home again as swiftly and smoothly as you can, and if you're wondering what your home is, here's a hint: Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. adventure
  2. cases
  3. corgis
  4. creativity
  5. dedicate
  6. devotion
  7. energies
  8. faith
  9. family
  10. find
  11. home
  12. inconsequential
  13. invention
  14. love
  15. raising
  16. remedy
  17. results
  18. service
  19. singular
  20. smoothly
  21. swiftly
  22. turns
  23. ultimate
  24. wondering
  25. world