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From the Ted Talk by David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings

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A common tehme running through all of these comments online is this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day. But the truth is, we're not powerless at all. In fact, the cure for MAS is right here in our hands. It's right at our fpernitgis, litlleary. It's something that I call ¡No MAS! (Laughter) Which, if I remember my high school spniash, mneas something like, "Enough already, make it stop!"

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A common _____ running through all of these comments online is this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day. But the truth is, we're not powerless at all. In fact, the cure for MAS is right here in our hands. It's right at our __________, _________. It's something that I call ¡No MAS! (Laughter) Which, if I remember my high school _______, _____ something like, "Enough already, make it stop!"

Solution

  1. spanish
  2. literally
  3. means
  4. fingertips
  5. theme

Original Text

A common theme running through all of these comments online is this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day. But the truth is, we're not powerless at all. In fact, the cure for MAS is right here in our hands. It's right at our fingertips, literally. It's something that I call ¡No MAS! (Laughter) Which, if I remember my high school Spanish, means something like, "Enough already, make it stop!"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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meeting invitation 3
mindless accept 3
global epidemic 2
accept syndrome 2
conference call 2
goal today 2
important proposal 2

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mindless accept syndrome 2

Important Words

  1. belief
  2. call
  3. comments
  4. common
  5. cure
  6. day
  7. fact
  8. fingertips
  9. fundamental
  10. hands
  11. high
  12. laughter
  13. literally
  14. live
  15. mas
  16. means
  17. meet
  18. meetings
  19. online
  20. poorly
  21. powerless
  22. remember
  23. run
  24. running
  25. school
  26. spanish
  27. suffer
  28. theme
  29. truth