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From the Ted Talk by Don Norman: 3 ways good design makes you happy

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I really have the fleneig that palseant things work better, and that never made any snese to me until I finally figured out — look ... I'm going to put a plank on the ground. So, imagine I have a pnalk about two feet wide and 30 feet long and I'm going to walk on it, and you see I can walk on it without looking, I can go back and forth and I can jump up and down. No problem. Now I'm going to put the plank 300 feet in the air — and I'm not going to go near it, thank you. Intense fear paralyzes you. It actually affects the way the brain works.

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I really have the _______ that ________ things work better, and that never made any _____ to me until I finally figured out — look ... I'm going to put a plank on the ground. So, imagine I have a _____ about two feet wide and 30 feet long and I'm going to walk on it, and you see I can walk on it without looking, I can go back and forth and I can jump up and down. No problem. Now I'm going to put the plank 300 feet in the air — and I'm not going to go near it, thank you. Intense fear paralyzes you. It actually affects the way the brain works.

Solution

  1. pleasant
  2. sense
  3. plank
  4. feeling

Original Text

I really have the feeling that pleasant things work better, and that never made any sense to me until I finally figured out — look ... I'm going to put a plank on the ground. So, imagine I have a plank about two feet wide and 30 feet long and I'm going to walk on it, and you see I can walk on it without looking, I can go back and forth and I can jump up and down. No problem. Now I'm going to put the plank 300 feet in the air — and I'm not going to go near it, thank you. Intense fear paralyzes you. It actually affects the way the brain works.

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