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From the Ted Talk by Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And it sickts with us. It really does stick with us, because when we are treated that way, we feel invisible sometimes, or talked around and at. And as I started to look at people, which is mostly all I did, I noticed that some people really wtnaed attention and recognition. rmemeebr, I was young then. So what did they do? What we still do perhaps too often. We talk about ourselves. And yet there are other people I observed who had what I called a mutuality mindset. In each situation, they found a way to talk about us and catere that "us" idea.

Open Cloze

And it ______ with us. It really does stick with us, because when we are treated that way, we feel invisible sometimes, or talked around and at. And as I started to look at people, which is mostly all I did, I noticed that some people really ______ attention and recognition. ________, I was young then. So what did they do? What we still do perhaps too often. We talk about ourselves. And yet there are other people I observed who had what I called a mutuality mindset. In each situation, they found a way to talk about us and ______ that "us" idea.

Solution

  1. create
  2. wanted
  3. remember
  4. sticks

Original Text

And it sticks with us. It really does stick with us, because when we are treated that way, we feel invisible sometimes, or talked around and at. And as I started to look at people, which is mostly all I did, I noticed that some people really wanted attention and recognition. Remember, I was young then. So what did they do? What we still do perhaps too often. We talk about ourselves. And yet there are other people I observed who had what I called a mutuality mindset. In each situation, they found a way to talk about us and create that "us" idea.

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Important Words

  1. attention
  2. called
  3. create
  4. feel
  5. idea
  6. invisible
  7. mindset
  8. mutuality
  9. noticed
  10. observed
  11. people
  12. recognition
  13. remember
  14. situation
  15. started
  16. stick
  17. sticks
  18. talk
  19. talked
  20. treated
  21. wanted
  22. young