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From the Ted Talk by Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

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I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people, and I invented a system called Enterprise Facilitation, where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local piaossn, the svnaret of local ppeole who have a dream to become a better person. So what you do — you shut up. You never arrive in a cmmtoiuny with any ideas, and you sit with the local people. We don't work from offices. We meet at the cafe. We meet at the pub. We have zero icrfrusarutnte. And what we do, we become friends, and we find out what that person wants to do.

Open Cloze

I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people, and I invented a system called Enterprise Facilitation, where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local _______, the _______ of local ______ who have a dream to become a better person. So what you do — you shut up. You never arrive in a _________ with any ideas, and you sit with the local people. We don't work from offices. We meet at the cafe. We meet at the pub. We have zero ______________. And what we do, we become friends, and we find out what that person wants to do.

Solution

  1. people
  2. infrastructure
  3. community
  4. servant
  5. passion

Original Text

I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people, and I invented a system called Enterprise Facilitation, where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of local people who have a dream to become a better person. So what you do — you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas, and you sit with the local people. We don't work from offices. We meet at the cafe. We meet at the pub. We have zero infrastructure. And what we do, we become friends, and we find out what that person wants to do.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
local people 5
zambian people 2
community meetings 2
smartest people 2
family doctor 2
peter drucker 2

Important Words

  1. arrive
  2. cafe
  3. called
  4. community
  5. decided
  6. dream
  7. enterprise
  8. facilitation
  9. find
  10. friends
  11. ideas
  12. infrastructure
  13. initiate
  14. invented
  15. local
  16. meet
  17. motivate
  18. offices
  19. passion
  20. people
  21. person
  22. pub
  23. respond
  24. servant
  25. shut
  26. sit
  27. system
  28. work
  29. years