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SHIGERU MIYAGAWA: Particularly
at MIT, but in other places

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teamwork is critical
to academic success.

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One of the things
I tell freshmen,

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is that I have been teaching
at MIT now for a long time.

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And the students are
wonderful and very bright,

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but what I've noticed
is that every year I

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see two or three students really
stand out after they graduate,

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and go on and do big things.

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And I see this year
in and year out.

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And all of the
students are wonderful.

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They're academically gifted,
and they're highly motivated.

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They have fire in their belly.

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So what's the difference between
those two versus the rest?

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Well, one day I figured it out.

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The two who go on
to do big things

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have learned to
work with others.

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That's it.

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There's nothing else
that I could see.

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They have learned
to work not only

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with people they share
interests, but also with people

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that they don't necessarily
share interests.

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That's the trick.

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It's easy to work with
people who are like you.

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It's harder to work with
people who are not like you.

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But when you learn
to be able to work

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across the spectrum
of people, then you

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can basically tap their gifts.

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That's what entrepreneurship
is actually.

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And so this is a little
spiel that I give them

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as part of why I
have in my syllabus,

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a goal for this course is
to learn to work in teams.

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I think I have that in
every class I teach,

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doesn't matter what class.

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A goal of this class is for
you to learn to work in teams.