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From the Ted Talk by Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by design
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So there are, of course, two different possibilities. There's one from a consumer's point of view — where I was happy while experiencing design. And I'll just give you one example. I had gotten my first Walkman. This is 1983. My brother had this garet Yamaha motorcycle that he was willing to bororw to me freely. And The Police's "Synchronicity" csstetae had just been released and there was no helmet law in my hometown of brgeenz. So you could drive up into the mountains freely bsltnaig The Police on the new Sony Walkman. (Laughter) And I remember it as a true moment of hiespapns. You know, of course, they are related to this combination of at least two of them being, you know, design objects. And, you know, there's a scale of happiness when you talk about in design but the motorcycle incident would definitely be, you know, situated somewhere here — right in there between digelht and Bliss.
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So there are, of course, two different possibilities. There's one from a consumer's point of view — where I was happy while experiencing design. And I'll just give you one example. I had gotten my first Walkman. This is 1983. My brother had this _____ Yamaha motorcycle that he was willing to ______ to me freely. And The Police's "Synchronicity" ________ had just been released and there was no helmet law in my hometown of _______. So you could drive up into the mountains freely ________ The Police on the new Sony Walkman. (Laughter) And I remember it as a true moment of _________. You know, of course, they are related to this combination of at least two of them being, you know, design objects. And, you know, there's a scale of happiness when you talk about in design but the motorcycle incident would definitely be, you know, situated somewhere here — right in there between _______ and Bliss.
Solution
- cassette
- bregenz
- blasting
- happiness
- great
- borrow
- delight
Original Text
So there are, of course, two different possibilities. There's one from a consumer's point of view — where I was happy while experiencing design. And I'll just give you one example. I had gotten my first Walkman. This is 1983. My brother had this great Yamaha motorcycle that he was willing to borrow to me freely. And The Police's "Synchronicity" cassette had just been released and there was no helmet law in my hometown of Bregenz. So you could drive up into the mountains freely blasting The Police on the new Sony Walkman. (Laughter) And I remember it as a true moment of happiness. You know, of course, they are related to this combination of at least two of them being, you know, design objects. And, you know, there's a scale of happiness when you talk about in design but the motorcycle incident would definitely be, you know, situated somewhere here — right in there between Delight and Bliss.
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