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From the Ted Talk by Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

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So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time raiemn hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of opsmitim. And I believe there's a way for us to do that. The key here really is knowledge. We're not born with an inante understanding of our biases. These have to be identified by scientific investigation. But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not setathr the illusion. It's like visual illusions, in which understanding them does not make them go away. And this is good because it means we should be able to strike a balance, to come up with plans and reuls to protect ourselves from unrealistic optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful.

Open Cloze

So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time ______ hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of ________. And I believe there's a way for us to do that. The key here really is knowledge. We're not born with an ______ understanding of our biases. These have to be identified by scientific investigation. But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not _______ the illusion. It's like visual illusions, in which understanding them does not make them go away. And this is good because it means we should be able to strike a balance, to come up with plans and _____ to protect ourselves from unrealistic optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful.

Solution

  1. shatter
  2. rules
  3. optimism
  4. remain
  5. innate

Original Text

So what we would really like to do, is we would like to protect ourselves from the dangers of optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful, benefiting from the many fruits of optimism. And I believe there's a way for us to do that. The key here really is knowledge. We're not born with an innate understanding of our biases. These have to be identified by scientific investigation. But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not shatter the illusion. It's like visual illusions, in which understanding them does not make them go away. And this is good because it means we should be able to strike a balance, to come up with plans and rules to protect ourselves from unrealistic optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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bad news 4
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high expectations 2
people prefer 2
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positive information 2
warning signs 2
negative information 2
brain region 2
time remain 2
optimistic penguin 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
inferior frontal gyrus 5
left inferior frontal 3
people prefer friday 2

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collocation frequency
left inferior frontal gyrus 3

Important Words

  1. aware
  2. balance
  3. benefiting
  4. bias
  5. biases
  6. born
  7. dangers
  8. fruits
  9. good
  10. hopeful
  11. identified
  12. illusion
  13. illusions
  14. innate
  15. investigation
  16. key
  17. knowledge
  18. means
  19. news
  20. optimism
  21. plans
  22. protect
  23. remain
  24. rules
  25. scientific
  26. shatter
  27. strike
  28. time
  29. understanding
  30. unrealistic
  31. visual