professional networks within the company become more ___ and isolated

these problems represent an increase in co-ordination costs, making collective enterprise more ___.

documented a ___ decline in learning for workers at home

it had a ___ impact on productivity

For many people, then, the future of work will remain ___.

performing joint observations or carrying out ___ operations

whether lunar time should be set on the moon or ___ with Earth

They will face similar ___ hurdles that a Martian time zone could address

bamboo ___ fans with which to cool ourselves

ink cakes ___ with designs of peonies and bamboo

their performance had been so ___ that one bike manufacturer refused to sell bikes to the team

a strategy that he referred to as “the aggregation of ___ gains,”

they used ___ sensors to monitor how each athlete responded

indoor racing suits proved to be lighter and more ___

tiny changes would seem to make a ___ difference at best

You expect to make progress in a ___ fashion

You fail to see a ___ result, and decide to stop.

what I call the Plateau of ___ Potential

if you maintain the same sloppy, ___ habits that led to a messy room

That’s the ___ thing about improvement.

The ___ assumption behind any goal is this.

on every single test of general ___ ability, the mental athletes’ scores came back well within the normal range

the brain’s basic anatomical structure was more or less ___

all that driving around the ___ streets of London

The right ___ hippocampus (a part of the brain)

the same right posterior ___ region

The brain is a ___ organ

the brain’s basic ___ structure was more or less static

there was one ___ difference between the brains of the mental athletes and the control subjects

Those firms have been among the most forceful in ___ workers to their offices

even many tech ___ have demanded staff show up to the office

it looks like the revenge of corporate ___

Didn’t a ___ of studies demonstrate that remote work was often more productive?

even chess professionals play less well in online matches than face-to-face ___

two big ___ in the study's results are often neglected

from their ___ might feel like an increase in productivity

the various countries and ___, public and private, that are coordinating trips

it will try to deploy a ___

as NASA prepares to send four astronauts into ___ around the moon

it will serve as a ___ for future crews on their way to the lunar surface

as smooth as the sliding ___ of old rivers

she was done ___ with the driver

flow as smoothly as a ___ cutting through a glassy lake

ink cakes embellished with designs of ___ and bamboo

Your ___ will blossom into abundance

the top is nothing but ___, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn

the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito ___

It’s the right ___, purple-black, not brown or gray

the ___ is very fine, as smooth as the sliding banks of old rivers

On the fourth ___, we finally sat.

professional cyclists in Great Britain had endured nearly one hundred years of ___

they were afraid that it would hurt sales if other professionals saw the Brits using their ___

You should be far more concerned with your current ___ than with your current results.

a strategy that he referred to as “the ___ of marginal gains,”

Good habits make time your ___.

It’s a ___ of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed

Two ___ can grind against one another

The brain is capable of reorganizing itself, a phenomenon known as ___.

It had long been thought that the adult brain was incapable of ___ new neurons

The right posterior ___ (a part of the brain)

learning caused ___ to rearrange themselves and new links between brain cells to form

authors of the academic ___

regions of the brain seemed to be working in ___ for the mental athletes

“virtual water coolers” often ___ on crowded schedules with limited benefits.

the balance of the work week is likely to ___ back to the office and away from home

video conferences ___ creative thinking

It is harder for people to ___ from home.

the European Space Agency has ___ the current system unsustainable

it will try to ___ a rover

___ time on the moon is tricky because clocks run faster there

he ___ at me, then laughed

so I could later tell her what I had seen, and ___ her envy

little bits of dust that could ___ the performance of the finely tuned bikes

How can you ___ this approach in your own life?

by ___ poor decisions, our small choices compound into toxic results

If you ___ the energy to tidy up, then you will have a clean room

the goal cannot be what ___ the winners from the losers

they had ___ even worse in cycling’s biggest race

see how your daily choices will ___ ten or twenty years down the line

Roots ___ themselves and branches grow.

many people find themselves ___ to their old habits

Why would mental athletes be ___ images in their mind’s eye?