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From the Ted Talk by Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck

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So first, you need to take some risks and get out of your comfort zone. Second, you need to show appreciation. And third, you want to change your relationship with ideas. Most people look at new ieads that come there way and they jgdue them. "That's a great idea" or "That's a terrible idea." But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good or bad. And in fact, the seeds of terrible ideas are often something truly remarkable.

One of my favorite exercises in my classes on ctravitiey is to help studnets foster an attitude of looking at tirrlebe ideas through the lens of possibilities. So I give them a challenge: to create an idea for a brand new restaurant. They have to come up with the best ideas for a new restaurant and the wsrot ideas for a new restaurant. So the best ideas are things like a restaurant on a mountaintop with a beautiful ssunet, or a restaurant on a boat with a googrues view. And the terrible ideas are things like a restaurant in a gagabre dump, or a restaurant with terrible service that's really dirty, or a restaurant that serves cockroach sushi.

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So first, you need to take some risks and get out of your comfort zone. Second, you need to show appreciation. And third, you want to change your relationship with ideas. Most people look at new _____ that come there way and they _____ them. "That's a great idea" or "That's a terrible idea." But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good or bad. And in fact, the seeds of terrible ideas are often something truly remarkable.

One of my favorite exercises in my classes on __________ is to help ________ foster an attitude of looking at ________ ideas through the lens of possibilities. So I give them a challenge: to create an idea for a brand new restaurant. They have to come up with the best ideas for a new restaurant and the _____ ideas for a new restaurant. So the best ideas are things like a restaurant on a mountaintop with a beautiful ______, or a restaurant on a boat with a ________ view. And the terrible ideas are things like a restaurant in a _______ dump, or a restaurant with terrible service that's really dirty, or a restaurant that serves cockroach sushi.

Solution


  1. sunset
  2. students
  3. creativity
  4. ideas
  5. gorgeous
  6. worst
  7. terrible
  8. judge
  9. garbage

Original Text


So first, you need to take some risks and get out of your comfort zone. Second, you need to show appreciation. And third, you want to change your relationship with ideas. Most people look at new ideas that come there way and they judge them. "That's a great idea" or "That's a terrible idea." But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good or bad. And in fact, the seeds of terrible ideas are often something truly remarkable.

One of my favorite exercises in my classes on creativity is to help students foster an attitude of looking at terrible ideas through the lens of possibilities. So I give them a challenge: to create an idea for a brand new restaurant. They have to come up with the best ideas for a new restaurant and the worst ideas for a new restaurant. So the best ideas are things like a restaurant on a mountaintop with a beautiful sunset, or a restaurant on a boat with a gorgeous view. And the terrible ideas are things like a restaurant in a garbage dump, or a restaurant with terrible service that's really dirty, or a restaurant that serves cockroach sushi.

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