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From the Ted Talk by Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
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But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is, you have to do away with the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation. We have this very rich vorcbualay to describe moments of inspiration. We have the "flash" of insight, the "stroke" of inihgst, we have "epiphanies," we have eureka moments, we have the "light bulb" mmonets, right? All of these concepts, as rhetorically florid as they are, share this basic assumption, which is that an idea is a single thing. It's something that happens often in a wonefrdul, innlltiaiumg moment.
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But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is, you have to do away with the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation. We have this very rich __________ to describe moments of inspiration. We have the "flash" of insight, the "stroke" of _______, we have "epiphanies," we have eureka moments, we have the "light bulb" _______, right? All of these concepts, as rhetorically florid as they are, share this basic assumption, which is that an idea is a single thing. It's something that happens often in a _________, ____________ moment.
Solution
- insight
- wonderful
- illuminating
- vocabulary
- moments
Original Text
But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is, you have to do away with the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation. We have this very rich vocabulary to describe moments of inspiration. We have the "flash" of insight, the "stroke" of insight, we have "epiphanies," we have eureka moments, we have the "light bulb" moments, right? All of these concepts, as rhetorically florid as they are, share this basic assumption, which is that an idea is a single thing. It's something that happens often in a wonderful, illuminating moment.
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