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From the Ted Talk by Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker

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But here's the icing on the cake: It's not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that's probably your greatest, as an institution or an individual. It's after you've had that experience and you trust each other. It's the unexpected things that you devise later on you never could have pircetded. For example, Marty is the husband of that actress I mentioned, and he watched them when they were practicing, and he was soon talking to Wally, my friend the ex-con, about that exercise regime. And he thuhogt, I have a set of racquetball courts. That guy could teach it. A lot of people who work there are meemrbs at my courts. They're fnequret tlreavres. They could pratcice in their hotel room, no equipment provided. That's how Wally got hired. Not only that, years later he was also teaching racquetball. Years after that, he was teaching the raqtbclaeul teachers. What I'm suggesting is, when you ccneont with people around a shared interest and action, you're accustomed to soinireepdtus things happening into the future, and I think that's what we're looking at. We open ourselves up to those opportunities, and in this room are key peralys in technology, key players who are uniquely positioned to do this, to scale systems and projects together.

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But here's the icing on the cake: It's not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that's probably your greatest, as an institution or an individual. It's after you've had that experience and you trust each other. It's the unexpected things that you devise later on you never could have _________. For example, Marty is the husband of that actress I mentioned, and he watched them when they were practicing, and he was soon talking to Wally, my friend the ex-con, about that exercise regime. And he _______, I have a set of racquetball courts. That guy could teach it. A lot of people who work there are _______ at my courts. They're ________ _________. They could ________ in their hotel room, no equipment provided. That's how Wally got hired. Not only that, years later he was also teaching racquetball. Years after that, he was teaching the ___________ teachers. What I'm suggesting is, when you _______ with people around a shared interest and action, you're accustomed to _____________ things happening into the future, and I think that's what we're looking at. We open ourselves up to those opportunities, and in this room are key _______ in technology, key players who are uniquely positioned to do this, to scale systems and projects together.

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  1. connect
  2. practice
  3. serendipitous
  4. thought
  5. members
  6. predicted
  7. racquetball
  8. players
  9. travelers
  10. frequent

Original Text


But here's the icing on the cake: It's not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that's probably your greatest, as an institution or an individual. It's after you've had that experience and you trust each other. It's the unexpected things that you devise later on you never could have predicted. For example, Marty is the husband of that actress I mentioned, and he watched them when they were practicing, and he was soon talking to Wally, my friend the ex-con, about that exercise regime. And he thought, I have a set of racquetball courts. That guy could teach it. A lot of people who work there are members at my courts. They're frequent travelers. They could practice in their hotel room, no equipment provided. That's how Wally got hired. Not only that, years later he was also teaching racquetball. Years after that, he was teaching the racquetball teachers. What I'm suggesting is, when you connect with people around a shared interest and action, you're accustomed to serendipitous things happening into the future, and I think that's what we're looking at. We open ourselves up to those opportunities, and in this room are key players in technology, key players who are uniquely positioned to do this, to scale systems and projects together.

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