Opportunity
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Allyship is about understanding that imbalance in
opportunity
and working to correct it.
About 10 years ago, I spoke about an Africa, an Africa of hope and opportunity, an Africa of entrepreneurs, an Africa very different from the Africa that you normally hear about of death, poverty and disease.
Stealing from you the
opportunity
to choose how you want to live your lives in the context of whatever disease it is.
I had the
opportunity
to spend some time with 24 of these women at a well-known archaeological site called Pachacamac, just outside Lima.
This is a big
opportunity
for prosperity.
But my case to you is that, once again, the technology genie has escaped from the bottle, and it was summoned by an unknown person or persons at this uncertain time in human history, and it's giving us another kick at the can, another
opportunity
to rewrite the economic power grid and the old order of things, and solve some of the world's most difficult problems, if we will it.
And that gave Trudeau a once-in-a-generation
opportunity
to break the old rules and write new ones.
And I've had the
opportunity
now to ask a lot of altruistic kidney donors how it is that they manage to generate such a wide circle of compassion that they were willing to give a complete stranger their kidney.
It was also evident that they had no idea that there was a landscape of
opportunity
that existed beyond their neighborhood.
I didn't learn how to make the good decisions about education and
opportunity
that you need to make to actually have a chance in this 21st century knowledge economy.
You didn't have the
opportunity
to choose between 1,000 people on a dating site.
When you face a compelling
opportunity
to take action, fear lulls you into inaction, enticing you to passively watch its prophecies fulfill themselves.
We have come for economic and educational
opportunity.
Returning to my analogy of getting back on our trains, another main concern I have about this noise that escalates from our online responses to injustice is that it can very easily slip into portraying us as the affected party, which can lead to a sense of defeatism, a kind of mental barrier to seeing any
opportunity
for positivity or change after a negative situation.
Let's take the
opportunity
to find something beautiful in the unknown, in the unpredictable, and even in the awful.
Obviously, this applies off the dance floor as well, but on the floor, it gives us the perfect
opportunity
to update an old paradigm, reinvigorate an old relic, and make it more representative of our era and our current way of being.
It actually means designing information campaigns so that candidates and voters who have never had the
opportunity
to participate or to vote understand where, when, how to register; where, when, how to vote; why, why it is important to take part.
When director Kate Champion, of acclaimed dance theater company Force Majeure, asked me to be the artistic associate on a work featuring all fat dancers, I literally jumped at the
opportunity.
You see, as I got older, while I was grateful for this amazing
opportunity
that I was being given, there was this ever-present pang of: But what about everyone else?
But it's also a big
opportunity.
But this opportunity, this youth dividend, is not a given.
It is our duty to leave a legacy of hope and
opportunity
for them but also with them.
That leaves us with just a five percent window of
opportunity
each day to actually think something new.
And as we sit with these women, some who have experienced violence and some who have not survived them, we have an
opportunity
to reverse what happened at the beginning of this talk, when we could not stand for these women because we did not know their names.
So again, if you deal with those who are the most impacted, everybody has an
opportunity
to benefit from that, rather than dealing with the folks who are not as impacted, and expecting it to trickle down.
It included community advocates who were used to fighting against things, but found the Atlanta BeltLine as something that they could fight for; developers who saw the
opportunity
to take advantage of a lot of new growth in the city; and dozens of nonprofit partners who saw their mission at least partly accomplished by the shared vision.
Well, then two years later, I was presented with the
opportunity
to come to the United States.
When I was an entrepreneur, I was presented with an investment opportunity, and then I was turned down.
This
opportunity
was available to him because of international collaborations.
Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a "low
opportunity
cost" time.
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