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From the Ted Talk by Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love
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To rcnoiecle this, we need to either change our culture or cahnge our expectations. So, ingmaie if we were all less passive in love. If we were more aveirtsse, more open-minded, more generous and instead of falling in love, we stepped into love. I know that this is asking a lot, but I'm not actually the first person to suggest this. In their book, "Metaphors We Live By," linguists Mark Johnson and George Lakoff suggest a really interesting solution to this dmlmeia, which is to change our metaphors. They argue that metaphors really do shape the way we ecxperenie the world, and that they can even act as a guide for future actions, like self-fulfilling prophecies.
Open Cloze
To _________ this, we need to either change our culture or ______ our expectations. So, _______ if we were all less passive in love. If we were more _________, more open-minded, more generous and instead of falling in love, we stepped into love. I know that this is asking a lot, but I'm not actually the first person to suggest this. In their book, "Metaphors We Live By," linguists Mark Johnson and George Lakoff suggest a really interesting solution to this _______, which is to change our metaphors. They argue that metaphors really do shape the way we __________ the world, and that they can even act as a guide for future actions, like self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Original Text
To reconcile this, we need to either change our culture or change our expectations. So, imagine if we were all less passive in love. If we were more assertive, more open-minded, more generous and instead of falling in love, we stepped into love. I know that this is asking a lot, but I'm not actually the first person to suggest this. In their book, "Metaphors We Live By," linguists Mark Johnson and George Lakoff suggest a really interesting solution to this dilemma, which is to change our metaphors. They argue that metaphors really do shape the way we experience the world, and that they can even act as a guide for future actions, like self-fulfilling prophecies.
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