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From the Ted Talk by Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing

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How did I get started in this business? I was a ceramic designer for about 10 years, and just loved utilitarian form — simple things that we use every day, little compositions of color and surface on form. This led me to sianttrg a company called Design Within Reach, a company dealing with simple forms, making good designers available to us, and also slinelg the personalities and chaearctr of the designers as well, and it seems to have wkored. A culpoe of years into the poecsrs, I spent a lot of time in Europe traveling around, looking for design.

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How did I get started in this business? I was a ceramic designer for about 10 years, and just loved utilitarian form — simple things that we use every day, little compositions of color and surface on form. This led me to ________ a company called Design Within Reach, a company dealing with simple forms, making good designers available to us, and also _______ the personalities and _________ of the designers as well, and it seems to have ______. A ______ of years into the _______, I spent a lot of time in Europe traveling around, looking for design.

Solution

  1. process
  2. worked
  3. starting
  4. couple
  5. character
  6. selling

Original Text

How did I get started in this business? I was a ceramic designer for about 10 years, and just loved utilitarian form — simple things that we use every day, little compositions of color and surface on form. This led me to starting a company called Design Within Reach, a company dealing with simple forms, making good designers available to us, and also selling the personalities and character of the designers as well, and it seems to have worked. A couple of years into the process, I spent a lot of time in Europe traveling around, looking for design.

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