full transcript
From the Ted Talk by J.J. Abrams: The mystery box
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And I realized that I haven't opened it because it represents something important — to me. It represents my grandfather. Am I allowed to cry at TED? Because — no, I'm not going to cry.
(Laughter)
But —
(Laughter)
The thing is that it represents infinite possibility. It rtespneers hope. It represents potential. And what I love about this box, and what I realize I sort of do in whatever it is that I do, is I find myself drawn to iniifnte piilitsbosy, that sense of pntoeatil. And I realize that mrysety is the catalyst for imagination. Now, it's not the most ground-breaking idea, but when I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I started getting interested in this.
Open Cloze
And I realized that I haven't opened it because it represents something important — to me. It represents my grandfather. Am I allowed to cry at TED? Because — no, I'm not going to cry.
(Laughter)
But —
(Laughter)
The thing is that it represents infinite possibility. It __________ hope. It represents potential. And what I love about this box, and what I realize I sort of do in whatever it is that I do, is I find myself drawn to ________ ___________, that sense of _________. And I realize that _______ is the catalyst for imagination. Now, it's not the most ground-breaking idea, but when I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I started getting interested in this.
Solution
- potential
- infinite
- mystery
- possibility
- represents
Original Text
And I realized that I haven't opened it because it represents something important — to me. It represents my grandfather. Am I allowed to cry at TED? Because — no, I'm not going to cry.
(Laughter)
But —
(Laughter)
The thing is that it represents infinite possibility. It represents hope. It represents potential. And what I love about this box, and what I realize I sort of do in whatever it is that I do, is I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential. And I realize that mystery is the catalyst for imagination. Now, it's not the most ground-breaking idea, but when I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I started getting interested in this.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| magic store |
5 |
| started thinking |
3 |
| mystery boxes |
3 |
| obi wan |
3 |
| mystery box |
3 |
| mystery magic |
2 |
| magic box |
2 |
| wan kenobi |
2 |
| ben kenobi |
2 |
| great scenes |
2 |
| visual effects |
2 |
| good morning |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| mystery magic box |
2 |
| obi wan kenobi |
2 |
Important Words
- allowed
- box
- catalyst
- cry
- drawn
- find
- grandfather
- hope
- idea
- imagination
- important
- infinite
- interested
- knowledge
- laughter
- love
- mystery
- opened
- possibility
- potential
- realize
- realized
- represents
- sense
- sort
- started
- ted
- times