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From the Ted Talk by Jad Abumrad: How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany

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And coming back from that trip on the mountain, a firend of mine gave me a book that gave this whole idea a name. In psychotherapy, there's this idea called the third, which essentially goes like this. tyipllcay, we think of ourselves as these autonomous units. I do something to you, you do something to me. But according to this theory, when two ppleoe come together and really commit to seeing each other, in that mutual act of riogcieotnn, they actually make something new. A new entity that is their relationship. You can think of Dolly's concerts as sort of a cultural third space. The way she sees all the different parts of her audience, the way they see her, creates the spiritual aerithtccrue of that space.

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And coming back from that trip on the mountain, a ______ of mine gave me a book that gave this whole idea a name. In psychotherapy, there's this idea called the third, which essentially goes like this. _________, we think of ourselves as these autonomous units. I do something to you, you do something to me. But according to this theory, when two ______ come together and really commit to seeing each other, in that mutual act of ___________, they actually make something new. A new entity that is their relationship. You can think of Dolly's concerts as sort of a cultural third space. The way she sees all the different parts of her audience, the way they see her, creates the spiritual ____________ of that space.

Solution

  1. recognition
  2. people
  3. typically
  4. friend
  5. architecture

Original Text

And coming back from that trip on the mountain, a friend of mine gave me a book that gave this whole idea a name. In psychotherapy, there's this idea called the third, which essentially goes like this. Typically, we think of ourselves as these autonomous units. I do something to you, you do something to me. But according to this theory, when two people come together and really commit to seeing each other, in that mutual act of recognition, they actually make something new. A new entity that is their relationship. You can think of Dolly's concerts as sort of a cultural third space. The way she sees all the different parts of her audience, the way they see her, creates the spiritual architecture of that space.

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