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From the Ted Talk by Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy

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Now, what's really interesting here is that we're not tininkhg our way into a new way of acting; we're acting our way into a new way of thinking. Philanthropy is reorganizing itself before our very eyes. And even though all of the experiments and all of the big givers don't yet fulfill this aspiration, I think this is the new zeitgeist: open, big, fast, connected, and, let us also hope, long. We have got to razilee that it is going to take a long time to do these things. If we don't develop the stamina to stick with things — whatever it is you pick, sictk with it — all of this sftuf is just going to be, you know, a fad.

Open Cloze


Now, what's really interesting here is that we're not ________ our way into a new way of acting; we're acting our way into a new way of thinking. Philanthropy is reorganizing itself before our very eyes. And even though all of the experiments and all of the big givers don't yet fulfill this aspiration, I think this is the new zeitgeist: open, big, fast, connected, and, let us also hope, long. We have got to _______ that it is going to take a long time to do these things. If we don't develop the stamina to stick with things — whatever it is you pick, _____ with it — all of this _____ is just going to be, you know, a fad.

Solution


  1. realize
  2. stick
  3. thinking
  4. stuff

Original Text


Now, what's really interesting here is that we're not thinking our way into a new way of acting; we're acting our way into a new way of thinking. Philanthropy is reorganizing itself before our very eyes. And even though all of the experiments and all of the big givers don't yet fulfill this aspiration, I think this is the new zeitgeist: open, big, fast, connected, and, let us also hope, long. We have got to realize that it is going to take a long time to do these things. If we don't develop the stamina to stick with things — whatever it is you pick, stick with it — all of this stuff is just going to be, you know, a fad.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
organized philanthropy 2
aggregated giving 2
million dollars 2
social singularity 2


Important Words


  1. acting
  2. aspiration
  3. big
  4. connected
  5. develop
  6. experiments
  7. eyes
  8. fad
  9. fast
  10. fulfill
  11. givers
  12. hope
  13. interesting
  14. long
  15. open
  16. philanthropy
  17. pick
  18. realize
  19. reorganizing
  20. stamina
  21. stick
  22. stuff
  23. thinking
  24. time