Have you ever had to write a really long essay and you feel like you need to stretch out the sentences as far as you can by including words that do not add as much value to the overall product as perhaps they should given the importance of the final result to your overall grade? Well, you are not alone, meaning that other people have had the same experience, or in other words, it is common to have such feelings. In other words, your experience does not differ substantially from what many others have felt. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.