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From the Ted Talk by Dolly Chugh: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person

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I mean, has this ever hppeenad to you? Have you ever had a really busy day at work, and you drive home, and when you get in the door, you realize you don't even remember the drive home, like whether you had green lights or red lights. You don't even remember. You were on aotoupilt. Or have you ever opened the fridge, looked for the butter, swore there is no btuter, and then realized the butter was right in front of you the whole time? These are the kinds of "whoops" mtonems that make us giggle, and this is what happens in a brain that can handle 11 million pieces of information cnimog in with only 40 being processed consciously. That's the bounded part of bneuodd rationality.

Open Cloze

I mean, has this ever ________ to you? Have you ever had a really busy day at work, and you drive home, and when you get in the door, you realize you don't even remember the drive home, like whether you had green lights or red lights. You don't even remember. You were on _________. Or have you ever opened the fridge, looked for the butter, swore there is no ______, and then realized the butter was right in front of you the whole time? These are the kinds of "whoops" _______ that make us giggle, and this is what happens in a brain that can handle 11 million pieces of information ______ in with only 40 being processed consciously. That's the bounded part of _______ rationality.

Solution

  1. autopilot
  2. butter
  3. happened
  4. coming
  5. bounded
  6. moments

Original Text

I mean, has this ever happened to you? Have you ever had a really busy day at work, and you drive home, and when you get in the door, you realize you don't even remember the drive home, like whether you had green lights or red lights. You don't even remember. You were on autopilot. Or have you ever opened the fridge, looked for the butter, swore there is no butter, and then realized the butter was right in front of you the whole time? These are the kinds of "whoops" moments that make us giggle, and this is what happens in a brain that can handle 11 million pieces of information coming in with only 40 being processed consciously. That's the bounded part of bounded rationality.

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