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From the Ted Talk by Charlie Jane Anders: Go ahead, dream about the future

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And, you know, there's a kind of loaigcl fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet uionn would still be around today. But the future is going to be much wrieedr than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, srcay things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.

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And, you know, there's a kind of _______ fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet _____ would still be around today. But the future is going to be much _______ than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, _____ things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.

Solution

  1. scary
  2. logical
  3. weirder
  4. union

Original Text

And, you know, there's a kind of logical fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet Union would still be around today. But the future is going to be much weirder than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, scary things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. dream
  2. expect
  3. extension
  4. fallacy
  5. finding
  6. free
  7. future
  8. graces
  9. imagination
  10. kind
  11. logical
  12. people
  13. possibly
  14. present
  15. run
  16. saving
  17. scary
  18. soviet
  19. step
  20. thought
  21. today
  22. union
  23. weirder
  24. wonders