This year, the headmaster of the school recommended a book to us. The book is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Robinson. The Element（元素） _________ the point at which the things we are _________ about and the things we are good at come together. The author says it is _________ to find our Element, not just for our own _________, but for the improvement of our world.

Mick Fleetwood is one of the most famous rock drummers in the world. _________, the tests showed his intelligence was low when he was in school. His mind would go _________ when his teacher asked him to recite the alphabet backwards. ___________, Mick's learning disability doesn't _________ his way to success. He comes from a home where his parents could see what is _________ his limits and understand the poor __________________ performance hardly dooms（注定） one to failure.

Mick's low score didn't __________________ his parents. They knew __________________ him from school and the tests that __________________ only a narrow range of intelligence may be the path to a successful career. Instead of __________________ Mick as a loser, they understand that he has a great talent for something that a score on a test can never __________________.

In school, there is an effort to help student __________________ what talents they have. But this is only one piece of the Puzzle, __________________ is stressed by Robinson. The other piece is finding __________________ a person's talent and the love of __________________ that talent intersect（交叉）.

I have enjoyed this book, and really __________________ the guidance of this book.

Trying new things is the only way we can discover hidden talents. I __________ my career as an editor for a magazine. I didn’t really mind the work, but I wanted something more __________. Then I was offered a management __________ of a digital reading company. The job was a seemingly _________ mix of my skills and interests, so I jumped at it.

_______, soon after I joined the company, its model changed to focus on K-12 education, and everything about my position changed. I was asked to take on the __________ different roles of selling content to teachers and training people. I felt more than a little __________ my comfort zone.

I knew I wanted to grow as a(an) __________ and make a serious effect on the company. I told myself that everything feels __________ at first and I should at least try. __________, I felt like I didn’t have a(an) __________. I knew jumping out of the __________ was the right thing for me, even though it felt pretty awful.

I was fortunate to be __________ by very helpful people, both at work and at home. They kept __________ me. I spent hours researching my company’s _________. I asked lots of questions and spoke to many people in need. I looked for opportunities to put in extra _________. The more I did, the better I felt.

Over time, I discovered that the job was _________ I could do and liked doing. It was an amazing __________ to see the company grow and know that my efforts contributed to __________ success and that it’s important to take risks and accept new __________. Actually, there’s nothing worse than failing because you refuse to even try.

I have trouble focusing on one thing at a time. I get excited about something and I’ll devote all my ________ to it for a couple of weeks. Then I’ll find something else that I’ll get even more excited about and focus on that ________. Many tasks get halfway finished and abandoned (放弃). It’s hard for me to fully ________ anything without setting a goal for myself. My head works better with a plan than without it.

I find this to be ________ for a lot of people: self- imposed (自我强加的) plans get things done more ________ than simply taking uninformed actions.

If your goal is to lose weight, the actions you take (what you eat, how much you exercise,   the amount of sleep you get) should all be ________ by the desire to lose weight. If you go out there ________ and do what you like, you may find yourself eating a whole box of cookies, saying, “Damn, I love Oreos (奥利奥)!”

Bringing yourself back to your ________ is a great way to stay grounded and motivated. Whenever I’ve lost sight of my goals, I feel the difference. I feel ________ and bad about myself, like I’m letting myself ________. When I’m aiming for a goal and taking ________ toward it, I feel inspired.

People against goals would tell me that it’s because I set the goals in the ________ place that I feel guilty and bad about myself. I wonder if feeling bad about myself because I’m ________to live up to my full potential is such a bad thing, I think we should always ________ to achieve more in our lives and be ________ for what we have.