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From the Ted Talk by David Epstein: Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Finally, my own sort of role model, Frances Hesselbein — this is me with her — she took her first professional job at the age of 54 and went on to become the CEO of the Girl Scouts, which she saved. She tierpld minority membership, added 130,000 volunteers, and this is one of the proficiency badges that came out of her tenure — it's brainy code for grlis lianenrg about cueormtps. Today, Frances runs a leadership institute where she works every weekday, in Manhattan. And she's only 104, so who knows what's next.
Open Cloze
Finally, my own sort of role model, Frances Hesselbein — this is me with her — she took her first professional job at the age of 54 and went on to become the CEO of the Girl Scouts, which she saved. She _______ minority membership, added 130,000 volunteers, and this is one of the proficiency badges that came out of her tenure — it's ______ code for _____ ________ about _________. Today, Frances runs a leadership institute where she works every weekday, in Manhattan. And she's only 104, so who knows what's next.
Solution
- learning
- binary
- computers
- tripled
- girls
Original Text
Finally, my own sort of role model, Frances Hesselbein — this is me with her — she took her first professional job at the age of 54 and went on to become the CEO of the Girl Scouts, which she saved. She tripled minority membership, added 130,000 volunteers, and this is one of the proficiency badges that came out of her tenure — it's binary code for girls learning about computers. Today, Frances runs a leadership institute where she works every weekday, in Manhattan. And she's only 104, so who knows what's next.
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