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Aha—The euphoria of eureka
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Tempo—Pouncing versus pacing
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Memory—Your brain as active archive
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Vocabulary—How porous is your thesaurus?
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Play—Survival of the funnest
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Dis/connect—Time to break and remake
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Together—Thinking in harmony
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Showtime
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