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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them

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Now you can cultivate this emotional intelligence yourself and use it in your everyday life. So just, you know, imagine wnakig up in the mnoring. I'm sure you've had this experience. I know I have. You wake up and as you're ermgieng into cseoscsonunis, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness, and immediately, your mind starts to race. You strat to think about all the crap that you have to do at work and you have that mountain of email which you will never dig yourself out of ever, the phone calls you have to return, and that important meeting across town, and you're going to have to fgiht traffic, you'll be late picking your kids up, your dog is sick, and what are you going to make for dinner? Oh my God. What is wrong with your life? What is wnrog with my life?

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Now you can cultivate this emotional intelligence yourself and use it in your everyday life. So just, you know, imagine ______ up in the _______. I'm sure you've had this experience. I know I have. You wake up and as you're ________ into _____________, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness, and immediately, your mind starts to race. You _____ to think about all the crap that you have to do at work and you have that mountain of email which you will never dig yourself out of ever, the phone calls you have to return, and that important meeting across town, and you're going to have to _____ traffic, you'll be late picking your kids up, your dog is sick, and what are you going to make for dinner? Oh my God. What is wrong with your life? What is _____ with my life?

Solution


  1. fight
  2. consciousness
  3. wrong
  4. emerging
  5. waking
  6. morning
  7. start

Original Text


Now you can cultivate this emotional intelligence yourself and use it in your everyday life. So just, you know, imagine waking up in the morning. I'm sure you've had this experience. I know I have. You wake up and as you're emerging into consciousness, you feel this horrible dread, you know, this real wretchedness, and immediately, your mind starts to race. You start to think about all the crap that you have to do at work and you have that mountain of email which you will never dig yourself out of ever, the phone calls you have to return, and that important meeting across town, and you're going to have to fight traffic, you'll be late picking your kids up, your dog is sick, and what are you going to make for dinner? Oh my God. What is wrong with your life? What is wrong with my life?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
emotion circuits 4
simple feelings 3
facial expressions 2
making meaning 2
delicious aroma 2
freshly baked 2
baked chocolate 2
mythical emotion 2
buried deep 2
emotional life 2
predict differently 2
emotional intelligence 2
purely physical 2
emotional suffering 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
freshly baked chocolate 2
mythical emotion circuits 2

Important Words


  1. calls
  2. consciousness
  3. crap
  4. cultivate
  5. dig
  6. dinner
  7. dog
  8. dread
  9. email
  10. emerging
  11. emotional
  12. everyday
  13. experience
  14. feel
  15. fight
  16. god
  17. horrible
  18. imagine
  19. immediately
  20. important
  21. intelligence
  22. kids
  23. late
  24. life
  25. meeting
  26. mind
  27. morning
  28. mountain
  29. phone
  30. picking
  31. race
  32. real
  33. return
  34. sick
  35. start
  36. starts
  37. town
  38. traffic
  39. wake
  40. waking
  41. work
  42. wretchedness
  43. wrong