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From the Ted Talk by Laura Gassner Otting: Why doesn't success bring happiness?

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one-time temporary hlrdue. But for everyone I spoke to, what was on the other side of this Wonderhell was the next one, and the next one, and if they were lucky, the next one after that. Our journeys are a series of successes punctuated by lessons and lesoss in life. It’s an ongoing cycle. There isn’t one big fsinih line. There are a million different little ones. So listen, I’m not telling you to suck it up and I’m not telling you to get hard. What I am telling you is that to deifne success as a finite destination would mean that you’re accepting that there’s only a finite limit to your gworth. And all that does is steal away all the wonder and leave us only in the hell.

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one-time temporary ______. But for everyone I spoke to, what was on the other side of this Wonderhell was the next one, and the next one, and if they were lucky, the next one after that. Our journeys are a series of successes punctuated by lessons and ______ in life. It’s an ongoing cycle. There isn’t one big ______ line. There are a million different little ones. So listen, I’m not telling you to suck it up and I’m not telling you to get hard. What I am telling you is that to ______ success as a finite destination would mean that you’re accepting that there’s only a finite limit to your ______. And all that does is steal away all the wonder and leave us only in the hell.

Solution


  1. growth
  2. losses
  3. finish
  4. define
  5. hurdle

Original Text


one-time temporary hurdle. But for everyone I spoke to, what was on the other side of this Wonderhell was the next one, and the next one, and if they were lucky, the next one after that. Our journeys are a series of successes punctuated by lessons and losses in life. It’s an ongoing cycle. There isn’t one big finish line. There are a million different little ones. So listen, I’m not telling you to suck it up and I’m not telling you to get hard. What I am telling you is that to define success as a finite destination would mean that you’re accepting that there’s only a finite limit to your growth. And all that does is steal away all the wonder and leave us only in the hell.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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Important Words


  1. accepting
  2. big
  3. cycle
  4. define
  5. destination
  6. finish
  7. finite
  8. growth
  9. hard
  10. hell
  11. hurdle
  12. journeys
  13. leave
  14. lessons
  15. life
  16. limit
  17. line
  18. listen
  19. losses
  20. lucky
  21. million
  22. ongoing
  23. punctuated
  24. series
  25. side
  26. spoke
  27. steal
  28. success
  29. successes
  30. suck
  31. telling
  32. temporary
  33. wonderhell