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From the Ted Talk by Zach King: The trick to regaining your childlike wonder

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So for you and I, as we approach life and try to solve new problems, if we're able to remove our assumptions for a mmoent, we can see with this new clhliidke wonder once again.

So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my desktop image on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really dgeiianzrosd, or you’re assuming that I’ve got too many prjcetos going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the pstibiilosy. So let me help clear the way here.

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So for you and I, as we approach life and try to solve new problems, if we're able to remove our assumptions for a ______, we can see with this new _________ wonder once again.

So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my desktop image on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really ____________, or you’re assuming that I’ve got too many ________ going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the ___________. So let me help clear the way here.

Solution


  1. projects
  2. disorganized
  3. moment
  4. childlike
  5. possibility

Original Text


So for you and I, as we approach life and try to solve new problems, if we're able to remove our assumptions for a moment, we can see with this new childlike wonder once again.

So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my desktop image on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really disorganized, or you’re assuming that I’ve got too many projects going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the possibility. So let me help clear the way here.

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Important Words


  1. approach
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  3. assumptions
  4. childlike
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  8. disorganized
  9. experience
  10. hold
  11. image
  12. life
  13. moment
  14. possibility
  15. problems
  16. projects
  17. regained
  18. remove
  19. screen
  20. sense
  21. solve
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  24. true
  25. worked