[Toolbox#008]Tool Sum_Chelsea

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Hello, so this week we are going to sum up some interesting/nice phrases from previous posts and reignite our passion for future writing exercises:) Here are mine:

#007

• succumbed to/conformed to
• someone be harnessed
• For decades
• To curb transmission of waterborne diseases
• attacking problems
• turn to trustworthy sources
• inextricably linked to
• excruciating pain
• they struck epidemiological gold with a simple behavioral tweak
• countless other ways
• deep human impulses
• The stakes are high
• But often people have passed them by (miss out the opportunity)

#005

• fruitless searching
•  If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing. Falling in love is being high above the clouds. Love is standing firmly on the ground.
• One does not exist without the other. Life is made of both

#004-2

• opened a sad national conversation
• why smart, privileged kids rot inside
• the savage music
• ease of stockpiling an arsenal
• chemistry of cruelty and cliques
• the hymn all parents unconsciously sing
•  It can’t happen here, Lord, no, it could never happen here.

#004-1

• compromises normal organ function
• govern initial metastatic cancer-cell survival

#003-2

• Alterations in
• Roughly two-thirds of these
• shape excitatory neuron activity
• are also executed by these young neurons
• These processes, realized in the developmentally and topographically distinct environment of the recipient, offer a unique opportunity for studying...

#003-1

• haunting phrase
• How bizarre and surreal it must be
• we are tempted to dismiss it as a fluke- an unfortunate, rare, and freakish aberration 
• specialized mass of gray tissue, fragile, wrinkled, and appended
• first to deteriorate in old age
• vacate the present and experience the future

#002-2

• gene of interest”
• came to notice
• profound difficulties in
• shapes the neural circuitry

#002-1

• familiar fingers of culture reach deep into our minds
• adjusting our dials and flicking our switches,
•  it's a feeling we trust at our own peril

#001-2

• shift toward favoring intuitive over reasoned options
• Choosing the latter reflects the use
• accept trade-offs
• render subsequent decisions prone to favoring impulsive, intuitive, and often regrettable options

#001-1

• status exaggerators
• wildly inflate their spot in the pecking order
• they are flummoxed when they get rejected
• status minimizers
• crushed by the competition

In sum:

Definitely I feel the first couple of weeks mimicry training is fun (but does require more time and effort) and effective than the later weeks of self-writing:) 

Next:

We can try to incorporate these phrases and words into our writing, while continuing on the mimicry exercises:)

Chelsea