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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

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And I started weonrnidg, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the leoikliohd of it being a total catastrophe. So I srtaetd thinking about that, but my tuhgoths didn't crystallize until about a month later. I was having dinner with my cllgaeoue, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my wdinow, and, you know, forgotten my passport, and Danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight.

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And I started _________, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the __________ of it being a total catastrophe. So I _______ thinking about that, but my ________ didn't crystallize until about a month later. I was having dinner with my _________, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my ______, and, you know, forgotten my passport, and Danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight.

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  6. likelihood

Original Text

And I started wondering, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe. So I started thinking about that, but my thoughts didn't crystallize until about a month later. I was having dinner with my colleague, Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, and I somewhat embarrassedly told him about having broken my window, and, you know, forgotten my passport, and Danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight.

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