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From the Ted Talk by Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?

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Now I'm sure you're sitting here and you're saying, I don't run a cable cpmnaoy, I don't run an investment firm, I am not a dairy farmer. What can I do? And I'm telling you, you can be color brave. If you're part of a hiring process or an admissions process, you can be color brvae. If you are trying to solve a really hard poberlm, you can speak up and be color brave. Now I know people will say, but that doesn't add up to a lot, but I'm actually asking you to do something really simple: observe your eonvninrmet, at work, at shoocl, at home. I'm asking you to look at the people around you plulorupfesy and intentionally. Invite people into your life who don't look like you, don't think like you, don't act like you, don't come from where you come from, and you might find that they will cnhaglele your assumptions and make you grow as a person. You might get powerful new insights from these individuals, or, like my husband, who happens to be wtihe, you might learn that black people, men, women, children, we use body lotion every sgilne day.

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Now I'm sure you're sitting here and you're saying, I don't run a cable _______, I don't run an investment firm, I am not a dairy farmer. What can I do? And I'm telling you, you can be color brave. If you're part of a hiring process or an admissions process, you can be color _____. If you are trying to solve a really hard _______, you can speak up and be color brave. Now I know people will say, but that doesn't add up to a lot, but I'm actually asking you to do something really simple: observe your ___________, at work, at ______, at home. I'm asking you to look at the people around you ____________ and intentionally. Invite people into your life who don't look like you, don't think like you, don't act like you, don't come from where you come from, and you might find that they will _________ your assumptions and make you grow as a person. You might get powerful new insights from these individuals, or, like my husband, who happens to be _____, you might learn that black people, men, women, children, we use body lotion every ______ day.

Solution


  1. school
  2. environment
  3. problem
  4. company
  5. purposefully
  6. brave
  7. challenge
  8. white
  9. single

Original Text


Now I'm sure you're sitting here and you're saying, I don't run a cable company, I don't run an investment firm, I am not a dairy farmer. What can I do? And I'm telling you, you can be color brave. If you're part of a hiring process or an admissions process, you can be color brave. If you are trying to solve a really hard problem, you can speak up and be color brave. Now I know people will say, but that doesn't add up to a lot, but I'm actually asking you to do something really simple: observe your environment, at work, at school, at home. I'm asking you to look at the people around you purposefully and intentionally. Invite people into your life who don't look like you, don't think like you, don't act like you, don't come from where you come from, and you might find that they will challenge your assumptions and make you grow as a person. You might get powerful new insights from these individuals, or, like my husband, who happens to be white, you might learn that black people, men, women, children, we use body lotion every single day.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
color brave 4
dairy farmer 3
ruthlessly realistic 2
racial discrimination 2
corporate board 2
guy named 2
single day 2
brutal pragmatism 2
show courage 2


Important Words


  1. act
  2. add
  3. admissions
  4. assumptions
  5. black
  6. body
  7. brave
  8. cable
  9. challenge
  10. children
  11. color
  12. company
  13. dairy
  14. day
  15. environment
  16. farmer
  17. find
  18. firm
  19. grow
  20. hard
  21. hiring
  22. home
  23. husband
  24. individuals
  25. insights
  26. intentionally
  27. investment
  28. invite
  29. learn
  30. life
  31. lot
  32. lotion
  33. men
  34. observe
  35. part
  36. people
  37. person
  38. powerful
  39. problem
  40. process
  41. purposefully
  42. run
  43. school
  44. single
  45. sitting
  46. solve
  47. speak
  48. telling
  49. white
  50. women
  51. work