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From the Ted Talk by Susan Cain: Why bittersweet emotions underscore life's beauty

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Susan Cain: The idea of bwteetinerstses is that we live in a constant state, all humans do, it's a constant state of a kind of esncixtee simultaneously of joy and sorrow, dark and light, bitter and sweet. And then what comes with that is a heightened asernaews of impermanence in all things, and also a kind of curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the wlrod. Because there's something about having this deep awareness that the joy comes with sorrow, the sororw comes with joy, that makes us really attuned to the insane beauty all around us.

Open Cloze

Susan Cain: The idea of _______________ is that we live in a constant state, all humans do, it's a constant state of a kind of _________ simultaneously of joy and sorrow, dark and light, bitter and sweet. And then what comes with that is a heightened _________ of impermanence in all things, and also a kind of curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the _____. Because there's something about having this deep awareness that the joy comes with sorrow, the ______ comes with joy, that makes us really attuned to the insane beauty all around us.

Solution

  1. existence
  2. awareness
  3. world
  4. bittersweetness
  5. sorrow

Original Text

Susan Cain: The idea of bittersweetness is that we live in a constant state, all humans do, it's a constant state of a kind of existence simultaneously of joy and sorrow, dark and light, bitter and sweet. And then what comes with that is a heightened awareness of impermanence in all things, and also a kind of curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. Because there's something about having this deep awareness that the joy comes with sorrow, the sorrow comes with joy, that makes us really attuned to the insane beauty all around us.

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