TED ​​The little risks you can take to increase your luck

​​The little risks you can take to increase your luck
by Tina Seelig

​1) How would you define luck? How lucky do you think you are?
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2) Can you think of a time when something great happened to you by a stroke of luck?
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​​'I've realized, by watching so long, that luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic. It's much more like the wind, blowing constantly. Sometimes it's calm, and sometimes it blows in gusts, and sometimes it comes from directions that you didn't even imagine.
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So how do you catch the winds of luck?'

​1 Change your relationship with yourself - be willing to take small risks that get you out of your comfort zone.

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​2 Change your relationship with other people - show appreciation.

​'Over the course of the last couple of years, I've come up with some tactics for my own life to help me really foster appreciation. My favorite is that at the end of every single day, I look at my calendar and I review all the people I met with, and I send thank-you notes to every single person. It only takes a few minutes, but at the end of every day, I feel incredibly grateful and appreciative, and I promise you it has increased my luck.'

3 Change your relationship with ideas - look at them through the lens of possibilities.

'One of my favorite exercises in my classes on creativity is to help students foster an attitude of looking at terrible ideas through the lens of possibilities. So I give them a challenge: to create an idea for a brand new restaurant. They have to come up with the best ideas for a new restaurant and the worst ideas for a new restaurant. .
So they hand all the ideas to me, I read the great ideas out loud, and then I rip them up and throw them away. I then take the horrible ideas and redistribute them. Each team now has an idea that another team thought was horrible, and their challenge is to turn it into something brilliant.'

Match

Match the underlined words with their meanings:

• Luck is defined as success or failure apparently caused by chance. Apparently. That's the operative word.

• A couple of months later, I reached out to him, and I said, "Mark, would you like to come to my class?

• And we spent some time chatting and cooked up an idea for an independent study project together.

• But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good or bad.

• Well, that turns into a restaurant that's a training ground for future restauranteurs to figure out how to avoid all the pitfalls.

the most important word in a phrase

communicate with someone

invent using your imagination

made different in appearance

a likely mistake or problem

• the most important word in a phrase

• communicate with someone

• invent using your imagination

• made different in appearance

• a likely mistake or problem

Match

Match to make collocations:

• come

• lock down

• acknowledge

• foster

• take

into play

the sense of who we are

what they are doing

appreciation

for granted

• into play

• the sense of who we are

• what they are doing

• appreciation

• for granted

​That's the operative word.

reach out to someone

cook up an idea

much more nuanced

avoid all the pitfalls
come into play
lock down the sense of who we are
acknowledge what they're doing
foster appreciation
take for granted

​https://www.ted.com/talks/tina_seelig_the_little_risks_you_can_take_to_increase_your_luck