Name: 【TED】Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker (Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker)
Uploaded: 2014-12-09T07:40:48.000Z
Duration: 9 min 51 s
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and like at least 20 other people in a room of this size,

I noticed that some people really wanted attention

So what did they do? What we still do perhaps too often?

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.

So my idea to reimagine the world is to see it one where we all become greater opportunity-makers with and for others.

There’s no greater opportunity or call for action for us now

than to become opportunity-makers who use best talents together more often for the greater good

and accomplish things we couldn’t have done on our own.

is the capacity for us to do something smarter together

for the greater good that lifts us both up

But I also want to point something else out.

Each one of you is better than anybody else at something.

That disproves that popular notion that if you’re the smartest person in the room,

So let me tell you about a Hollywood party I went to a couple years back,

and we were soon talking about something that we both felt passionately about,

And she had the fervent belief that every new building in Los Angeles

should have public art in it. She wanted a regulation for it,

She fervently started talking about these bean-shaped reflective sculptures in Millennium Park,

and they’d smile in the reflection of it,

and they’d pose and they’d vamp and they’d take selfies together

And as she was talking, a thought came to my mind.

I said, “I know someone you ought to meet.

He’s getting out of San Quentin in a couple of weeks

and he shares your fervent desire that art should engage and enable people to connect.”

and I met him because I gave a speech at San Quentin,

because he’s buff. He had workout regime he did everyday.

I think she was following me at that point.

I said, “he’d be an unexpected ally.”

And not just that. There’s James. He’s an architect

and he loves place-making, and place-making is when you have those mini-plazas

where people draw and come up and talk sometimes.

They spoke in front of the Lost Angeles City Council.

And the council members not only passed the regulation,

half of them came down and asked to pose with them afterwards.

They were startling, compelling and credible.

What I’m asking you to consider is what kind of opportunity-makers we might become,

it’s our capacity to connect around each other’s better side and bring it out.

and I’m sure many of you have made the wrong moves too about who you wanted to connect with,

but what I want to suggest is, this is an opportunity.

I started thinking about it way back when I was a Wall Street Journal reporter and I was in Europe

and I was supposed to cover trends and trends that transcended business or politics or lifestyle.

So I had to have contacts in different worlds very different than mine,

because otherwise you couldn’t spot the trends.

And third, I had to write a story in a way stepping into the reader’s shoes,

they could see how these trends could affect their lives.

Unlike an increasing number of Americans who are working and living and playing with people who think exactly like them

because we then become more rigid and extreme,

opportunity-makers are actively seeking situations with people unlike them,

they have trusted relationships where they can bring the right team in

and recruit them to solve a problem better and faster and seize more opportunities.

and once you feel it, you want it to happen a lot more.

This world is calling out for us to have a collective mindset,