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From the Ted Talk by Raymond Tang: Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water
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You may know this feeling: you wake up to mpultile unread notifications on your mobile phone. Your cedlnaar is already packed with meetings, sometimes double- or triple-booked. You feel eagengd, you feel busy. In fact, you feel productive. But at the end of it all, something still feels msinsig. You try to figure out what it is. But before you do, the next day starts all over again. That was how I felt two yeras ago. I felt stressed; I felt anxious. I felt a bit trapped. The world around me was moving very quickly. And I didn't know what to do. I started wondering to myself: How do I keep up with all this? How do we find fulfillment in a world that's literally changing as fast as we can think, or maybe even fseatr?
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You may know this feeling: you wake up to ________ unread notifications on your mobile phone. Your ________ is already packed with meetings, sometimes double- or triple-booked. You feel _______, you feel busy. In fact, you feel productive. But at the end of it all, something still feels _______. You try to figure out what it is. But before you do, the next day starts all over again. That was how I felt two _____ ago. I felt stressed; I felt anxious. I felt a bit trapped. The world around me was moving very quickly. And I didn't know what to do. I started wondering to myself: How do I keep up with all this? How do we find fulfillment in a world that's literally changing as fast as we can think, or maybe even ______?
Solution
- engaged
- faster
- missing
- calendar
- years
- multiple
Original Text
You may know this feeling: you wake up to multiple unread notifications on your mobile phone. Your calendar is already packed with meetings, sometimes double- or triple-booked. You feel engaged, you feel busy. In fact, you feel productive. But at the end of it all, something still feels missing. You try to figure out what it is. But before you do, the next day starts all over again. That was how I felt two years ago. I felt stressed; I felt anxious. I felt a bit trapped. The world around me was moving very quickly. And I didn't know what to do. I started wondering to myself: How do I keep up with all this? How do we find fulfillment in a world that's literally changing as fast as we can think, or maybe even faster?
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