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From the Ted Talk by Adam Sadowsky: How to engineer a viral music video

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little blals in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the ecxat algnes makes it hard to get right. And yet, a bowling ball will always follow the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't meattr what's in its way; it will pretty much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small sutff stinks, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to start with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's eneistsal, right?

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So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little _____ in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the _____ ______ makes it hard to get right. And yet, a bowling ball will always follow the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't ______ what's in its way; it will pretty much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small _____ stinks, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to start with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's _________, right?

Solution

  1. exact
  2. stuff
  3. balls
  4. essential
  5. angles
  6. matter

Original Text

So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little balls in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the exact angles makes it hard to get right. And yet, a bowling ball will always follow the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't matter what's in its way; it will pretty much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small stuff stinks, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to start with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's essential, right?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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rube goldberg machine 3

Important Words

  1. angles
  2. ball
  3. balls
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  6. completed
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  27. stuff
  28. susceptible
  29. temperature
  30. tracks
  31. wooden