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From the Ted Talk by Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


You see, sight is just one way we shape our reality. We create our own realities in many other ways. Let's take fear as just one example. Your fares distort your reality. Under the warped logic of fear, anything is better than the uncertain. Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in plcae of the abiouumgs, susntitbuitg assumption for reason. Psychologists have a great term for it: awfulizing.

(Laughter)

Right? Fear replaces the unknown with the awful. Now, fear is self-realizing. When you face the geetsart need to look outside yourself and think critically, fear beats a retreat deep inside your mind, shrinking and distorting your view, drowning your capacity for critical thought with a flood of disruptive emotions. When you face a compelling opportunity to take action, fear lluls you into inaction, entnciig you to pleasvsiy watch its pceerpihos flfuill themselves.

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You see, sight is just one way we shape our reality. We create our own realities in many other ways. Let's take fear as just one example. Your _____ distort your reality. Under the warped logic of fear, anything is better than the uncertain. Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in _____ of the _________, ____________ assumption for reason. Psychologists have a great term for it: awfulizing.

(Laughter)

Right? Fear replaces the unknown with the awful. Now, fear is self-realizing. When you face the ________ need to look outside yourself and think critically, fear beats a retreat deep inside your mind, shrinking and distorting your view, drowning your capacity for critical thought with a flood of disruptive emotions. When you face a compelling opportunity to take action, fear _____ you into inaction, ________ you to _________ watch its __________ _______ themselves.

Solution


  1. fulfill
  2. place
  3. greatest
  4. ambiguous
  5. passively
  6. enticing
  7. substituting
  8. fears
  9. prophecies
  10. lulls

Original Text


You see, sight is just one way we shape our reality. We create our own realities in many other ways. Let's take fear as just one example. Your fears distort your reality. Under the warped logic of fear, anything is better than the uncertain. Fear fills the void at all costs, passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in place of the ambiguous, substituting assumption for reason. Psychologists have a great term for it: awfulizing.

(Laughter)

Right? Fear replaces the unknown with the awful. Now, fear is self-realizing. When you face the greatest need to look outside yourself and think critically, fear beats a retreat deep inside your mind, shrinking and distorting your view, drowning your capacity for critical thought with a flood of disruptive emotions. When you face a compelling opportunity to take action, fear lulls you into inaction, enticing you to passively watch its prophecies fulfill themselves.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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