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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

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Look, I don't know where you rightfully live, but I know that there's something in this wolrd that you love more than you love yourself. Something worthy, by the way, so aicdidton and iioftantuan don't count, because we all know that those are not safe places to live. Right? The only trick is that you've got to iefnitdy the best, worthiest thing that you love most, and then build your house right on top of it and don't budge from it. And if you should someday, somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success, then your job is to fight your way back to that home the only way that it has ever been done, by ptuting your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next. You just do that, and keep doing that again and again and again, and I can absolutely pisrome you, from long personal experience in every direction, I can aursse you that it's all going to be okay. Thank you. (Applause)

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Look, I don't know where you rightfully live, but I know that there's something in this _____ that you love more than you love yourself. Something worthy, by the way, so _________ and ___________ don't count, because we all know that those are not safe places to live. Right? The only trick is that you've got to ________ the best, worthiest thing that you love most, and then build your house right on top of it and don't budge from it. And if you should someday, somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success, then your job is to fight your way back to that home the only way that it has ever been done, by _______ your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next. You just do that, and keep doing that again and again and again, and I can absolutely _______ you, from long personal experience in every direction, I can ______ you that it's all going to be okay. Thank you. (Applause)

Solution

  1. world
  2. promise
  3. infatuation
  4. addiction
  5. identify
  6. putting
  7. assure

Original Text

Look, I don't know where you rightfully live, but I know that there's something in this world that you love more than you love yourself. Something worthy, by the way, so addiction and infatuation don't count, because we all know that those are not safe places to live. Right? The only trick is that you've got to identify the best, worthiest thing that you love most, and then build your house right on top of it and don't budge from it. And if you should someday, somehow get vaulted out of your home by either great failure or great success, then your job is to fight your way back to that home the only way that it has ever been done, by putting your head down and performing with diligence and devotion and respect and reverence whatever the task is that love is calling forth from you next. You just do that, and keep doing that again and again and again, and I can absolutely promise you, from long personal experience in every direction, I can assure you that it's all going to be okay. Thank you. (Applause)

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