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From the Ted Talk by Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

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I tell you this to show that my life is like most ptaolurcts. I have a baord ppevisretce on capitalism and bsunseis, and I have been rewarded obscenely for that with a life that most of you all can't even imagine: multiple homes, a yacht, my own plane, etc., etc., etc. But let's be honest: I am not the smartest person you've ever met. I am certainly not the hardest working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all. I can't write a word of code. Truly, my success is the cncoeuenqse of spectacular luck, of btirh, of circumstance and of timing. But I am actually pretty good at a couple of things. One, I have an unusually high tolerance for risk, and the other is I have a good sense, a good intuition about what will happen in the future, and I think that that intuition about the future is the encsese of good etniepuehersnrrp.

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I tell you this to show that my life is like most __________. I have a _____ ___________ on capitalism and ________, and I have been rewarded obscenely for that with a life that most of you all can't even imagine: multiple homes, a yacht, my own plane, etc., etc., etc. But let's be honest: I am not the smartest person you've ever met. I am certainly not the hardest working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all. I can't write a word of code. Truly, my success is the ___________ of spectacular luck, of _____, of circumstance and of timing. But I am actually pretty good at a couple of things. One, I have an unusually high tolerance for risk, and the other is I have a good sense, a good intuition about what will happen in the future, and I think that that intuition about the future is the _______ of good ________________.

Solution


  1. broad
  2. consequence
  3. essence
  4. business
  5. plutocrats
  6. entrepreneurship
  7. birth
  8. perspective

Original Text


I tell you this to show that my life is like most plutocrats. I have a broad perspective on capitalism and business, and I have been rewarded obscenely for that with a life that most of you all can't even imagine: multiple homes, a yacht, my own plane, etc., etc., etc. But let's be honest: I am not the smartest person you've ever met. I am certainly not the hardest working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all. I can't write a word of code. Truly, my success is the consequence of spectacular luck, of birth, of circumstance and of timing. But I am actually pretty good at a couple of things. One, I have an unusually high tolerance for risk, and the other is I have a good sense, a good intuition about what will happen in the future, and I think that that intuition about the future is the essence of good entrepreneurship.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  3. business
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  39. tolerance
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  44. yacht