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From the Ted Talk by Bhakti Sharma: What open water swimming taught me about resilience

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Open water swimming is a very lonely sport. I have spent hours looking into the infinite, seemingly bottomless ocean underneath me, with nothing to keep me company but my own thoughts. And so, I have not only been tested as a swmmier but also as a thinknig, feeling, imaginative hmaun being. Be it my first test as a marathon swimmer, when I decided to swim for 12 hours non-stop in a swimming pool or crossing the egsilnh cneahnl in 13 hours and 55 minutes. When you're swimming, you don't talk, you don't hear very well, and your vision is rsreteictd to what's right in front of you or underneath you. This isolation has been my sport's biggest gift to me.

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Open water swimming is a very lonely sport. I have spent hours looking into the infinite, seemingly bottomless ocean underneath me, with nothing to keep me company but my own thoughts. And so, I have not only been tested as a _______ but also as a ________, feeling, imaginative _____ being. Be it my first test as a marathon swimmer, when I decided to swim for 12 hours non-stop in a swimming pool or crossing the _______ _______ in 13 hours and 55 minutes. When you're swimming, you don't talk, you don't hear very well, and your vision is __________ to what's right in front of you or underneath you. This isolation has been my sport's biggest gift to me.

Solution


  1. swimmer
  2. human
  3. channel
  4. english
  5. restricted
  6. thinking

Original Text


Open water swimming is a very lonely sport. I have spent hours looking into the infinite, seemingly bottomless ocean underneath me, with nothing to keep me company but my own thoughts. And so, I have not only been tested as a swimmer but also as a thinking, feeling, imaginative human being. Be it my first test as a marathon swimmer, when I decided to swim for 12 hours non-stop in a swimming pool or crossing the English Channel in 13 hours and 55 minutes. When you're swimming, you don't talk, you don't hear very well, and your vision is restricted to what's right in front of you or underneath you. This isolation has been my sport's biggest gift to me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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open water 5
water swimming 3
english channel 3
world record 3
antarctic ocean 2

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open water swimming 3

Important Words


  1. biggest
  2. bottomless
  3. channel
  4. company
  5. crossing
  6. decided
  7. english
  8. feeling
  9. front
  10. gift
  11. hear
  12. hours
  13. human
  14. imaginative
  15. infinite
  16. isolation
  17. lonely
  18. marathon
  19. minutes
  20. ocean
  21. open
  22. pool
  23. restricted
  24. seemingly
  25. spent
  26. sport
  27. swim
  28. swimmer
  29. swimming
  30. talk
  31. test
  32. tested
  33. thinking
  34. thoughts
  35. vision
  36. water