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From the Ted Talk by Tanya Menon: The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet

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How can we overcome this? Two simlpe stietegars. One sarttgey is simply to look at your list of Facebook friends and LinkedIn friends just so you remind yourself of people who are there beyond those that automatically come to mind. And in our own research, one of the things we did was, we considered Claude Steele's research on self-affirmation: simply thinking about your own values, networking from a place of srtnegth. What ligeh Thompson, Hoon-Seok Choi and I were able to do is, we found that people who had affirmed themselves first were able to take advice from people who would otherwise be threatening to them.

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How can we overcome this? Two ______ __________. One ________ is simply to look at your list of Facebook friends and LinkedIn friends just so you remind yourself of people who are there beyond those that automatically come to mind. And in our own research, one of the things we did was, we considered Claude Steele's research on self-affirmation: simply thinking about your own values, networking from a place of ________. What _____ Thompson, Hoon-Seok Choi and I were able to do is, we found that people who had affirmed themselves first were able to take advice from people who would otherwise be threatening to them.

Solution


  1. strategy
  2. leigh
  3. simple
  4. strategies
  5. strength

Original Text


How can we overcome this? Two simple strategies. One strategy is simply to look at your list of Facebook friends and LinkedIn friends just so you remind yourself of people who are there beyond those that automatically come to mind. And in our own research, one of the things we did was, we considered Claude Steele's research on self-affirmation: simply thinking about your own values, networking from a place of strength. What Leigh Thompson, Hoon-Seok Choi and I were able to do is, we found that people who had affirmed themselves first were able to take advice from people who would otherwise be threatening to them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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social world 3
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search engine 3
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human beings 2
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social hub 2
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collocation frequency
social search engine 3
socioeconomic status people 2

Important Words


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  5. claude
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  23. strength
  24. thinking
  25. thompson
  26. threatening
  27. values