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From the Ted Talk by Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And I tried something interesting. I thought, let's up the ante, once. So I offered a 10,000 dollar prize of software to the winning team. So what do you think happened to these design students? What was the result? Here's what happened: Not one team had a stindnag structure. If anyone had built, say, a one inch structure, they would have taken home the prize. So, isn't that interesting? That high stakes have a sortng impact. We did the exercise again with the same sudettns. What do you think happened then? So now they understand the value of prototyping. So the same team went from being the very worst to being among the very best. They peducrod the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep lsneoss for us about the nature of incentives and success.

Open Cloze


And I tried something interesting. I thought, let's up the ante, once. So I offered a 10,000 dollar prize of software to the winning team. So what do you think happened to these design students? What was the result? Here's what happened: Not one team had a ________ structure. If anyone had built, say, a one inch structure, they would have taken home the prize. So, isn't that interesting? That high stakes have a ______ impact. We did the exercise again with the same ________. What do you think happened then? So now they understand the value of prototyping. So the same team went from being the very worst to being among the very best. They ________ the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep _______ for us about the nature of incentives and success.

Solution


  1. strong
  2. standing
  3. students
  4. produced
  5. lessons

Original Text


And I tried something interesting. I thought, let's up the ante, once. So I offered a 10,000 dollar prize of software to the winning team. So what do you think happened to these design students? What was the result? Here's what happened: Not one team had a standing structure. If anyone had built, say, a one inch structure, they would have taken home the prize. So, isn't that interesting? That high stakes have a strong impact. We did the exercise again with the same students. What do you think happened then? So now they understand the value of prototyping. So the same team went from being the very worst to being among the very best. They produced the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep lessons for us about the nature of incentives and success.

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Important Words


  1. amount
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  28. students
  29. success
  30. tallest
  31. team
  32. thought
  33. time
  34. understand
  35. winning
  36. worst