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From the Ted Talk by Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love

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And this is how badly I ______ it, it grew at zero percent for four years, and I was about to shut it down, and right about then, I _____ to San Francisco and started to meet some pretty interesting people who had these _____ lifestyles of adventure, of __________ and websites and blogs that __________ their passions and helped people in a __________ way. And one of my friends, now, he has a family of eight, and he supports his whole family with a blog that he writes for twice a week. They just came back from a month in Europe, all of them together. This blew my mind. How does this even exist? And I got unbelievably inspired by seeing this, and instead of shutting it down, I decided, let's take it seriously. And I did everything I could to spend my time, every waking hour possible trying to _____ these guys, _______ out and having beers and workouts, whatever it was. And after four years of zero ______, within six months of hanging around these people, the community at Live Your Legend grew by 10 times. In another 12 ______, it grew by 160 times. And today over 30,000 people from 158 _________ use our career and connection tools on a monthly basis. And those people have made up that _________ of passionate folks who inspired that possibility that I dreamed of for Live Your Legend so many years back.

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Original Text

And this is how badly I wanted it, it grew at zero percent for four years, and I was about to shut it down, and right about then, I moved to San Francisco and started to meet some pretty interesting people who had these crazy lifestyles of adventure, of businesses and websites and blogs that surrounded their passions and helped people in a meaningful way. And one of my friends, now, he has a family of eight, and he supports his whole family with a blog that he writes for twice a week. They just came back from a month in Europe, all of them together. This blew my mind. How does this even exist? And I got unbelievably inspired by seeing this, and instead of shutting it down, I decided, let's take it seriously. And I did everything I could to spend my time, every waking hour possible trying to hound these guys, hanging out and having beers and workouts, whatever it was. And after four years of zero growth, within six months of hanging around these people, the community at Live Your Legend grew by 10 times. In another 12 months, it grew by 160 times. And today over 30,000 people from 158 countries use our career and connection tools on a monthly basis. And those people have made up that community of passionate folks who inspired that possibility that I dreamed of for Live Your Legend so many years back.

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