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From the Ted Talk by OK Go: How to find a wonderful idea

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So it's all of these ideas that pploee are curious about, and the reason we've had so much trouble describing how we think of these ideas is that it doesn't really feel like we think of them at all. It feels like we find them. And by way of explanation — well, I have a civpsmuole hibat. I play parallax and perspective games with my eyes pretty much all the time, and it's something I've been doing since I was a teenager. And I think the big contributing factor may have been that this is how I decorated my high school berodom.

Open Cloze

So it's all of these ideas that ______ are curious about, and the reason we've had so much trouble describing how we think of these ideas is that it doesn't really feel like we think of them at all. It feels like we find them. And by way of explanation — well, I have a __________ _____. I play parallax and perspective games with my eyes pretty much all the time, and it's something I've been doing since I was a teenager. And I think the big contributing factor may have been that this is how I decorated my high school _______.

Solution

  1. compulsive
  2. people
  3. habit
  4. bedroom

Original Text

So it's all of these ideas that people are curious about, and the reason we've had so much trouble describing how we think of these ideas is that it doesn't really feel like we think of them at all. It feels like we find them. And by way of explanation — well, I have a compulsive habit. I play parallax and perspective games with my eyes pretty much all the time, and it's something I've been doing since I was a teenager. And I think the big contributing factor may have been that this is how I decorated my high school bedroom.

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Important Words

  1. bedroom
  2. big
  3. compulsive
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  6. decorated
  7. describing
  8. explanation
  9. eyes
  10. factor
  11. feel
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  13. find
  14. games
  15. habit
  16. high
  17. ideas
  18. parallax
  19. people
  20. perspective
  21. play
  22. pretty
  23. reason
  24. school
  25. teenager
  26. time
  27. trouble