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From the Ted Talk by Lambers Fisher: What to do when you offend someone
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Instead, apccet the inevitability of offense. Take the time to learn what made that offensive to the person in front of you, and then make every reasonable effort to rcduee the likelihood of repeating that offense moving forward.
The second relationship-strengthening principle that comes to life for me often does so when I see couples believing that if you don't know me by now, you will never, never know me.
(Laughter)
As if to coveny that, if you don't instantly understand and know everything about me, then you must not truly love me. But in reality, I found that some of the best and long-lasting couple relationships are the ones that embrace not knowing everything that there is to know about a psoern instantly, but actually appreciate the otupronipty to keep the relationship fresh by learning new things about each other for years to come.
Open Cloze
Instead, ______ the inevitability of offense. Take the time to learn what made that offensive to the person in front of you, and then make every reasonable effort to ______ the likelihood of repeating that offense moving forward.
The second relationship-strengthening principle that comes to life for me often does so when I see couples believing that if you don't know me by now, you will never, never know me.
(Laughter)
As if to ______ that, if you don't instantly understand and know everything about me, then you must not truly love me. But in reality, I found that some of the best and long-lasting couple relationships are the ones that embrace not knowing everything that there is to know about a ______ instantly, but actually appreciate the ___________ to keep the relationship fresh by learning new things about each other for years to come.
Solution
- convey
- opportunity
- accept
- person
- reduce
Original Text
Instead, accept the inevitability of offense. Take the time to learn what made that offensive to the person in front of you, and then make every reasonable effort to reduce the likelihood of repeating that offense moving forward.
The second relationship-strengthening principle that comes to life for me often does so when I see couples believing that if you don't know me by now, you will never, never know me.
(Laughter)
As if to convey that, if you don't instantly understand and know everything about me, then you must not truly love me. But in reality, I found that some of the best and long-lasting couple relationships are the ones that embrace not knowing everything that there is to know about a person instantly, but actually appreciate the opportunity to keep the relationship fresh by learning new things about each other for years to come.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
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| good intentions |
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| maintain good |
4 |
| unintentional offenses |
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| unintentionally offended |
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| positive interactions |
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| big smile |
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| absolute list |
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| future harm |
2 |
| reasonable effort |
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| offense moving |
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| perceived threats |
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| perceived threat |
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| hurt person |
2 |
| verbal acknowledgment |
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frequency |
| maintain good intentions |
2 |
Important Words
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