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From the Ted Talk by Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future

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And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe cleald the amygdala. Now the aalmydga is our early wnaring detector, our danger dtceeotr. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. And that old newspaper saying, "If it bleeds it leads," is very true. So given all of our digtial devices that are bringing all the negative news to us seven days a week, 24 horus a day, it's no wonder that we're pessimistic. It's no wonder that people think that the world is getting wsroe.

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And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe ______ the amygdala. Now the ________ is our early _______ detector, our danger ________. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. And that old newspaper saying, "If it bleeds it leads," is very true. So given all of our _______ devices that are bringing all the negative news to us seven days a week, 24 _____ a day, it's no wonder that we're pessimistic. It's no wonder that people think that the world is getting _____.

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And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe called the amygdala. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. And that old newspaper saying, "If it bleeds it leads," is very true. So given all of our digital devices that are bringing all the negative news to us seven days a week, 24 hours a day, it's no wonder that we're pessimistic. It's no wonder that people think that the world is getting worse.

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