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From the Ted Talk by Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken

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And that's how the industrial rvuoloetin created a factory system in which there was really nothing you could possibly get out of your day's work, except for the pay at the end of the day. Because the father — one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith — was cenovicnd that human binges were by their very natures lazy, and wouldn't do anything unless you made it wtorh their while, and the way you made it worth their while was by incentivizing, by giving them rewards. That was the only reason anyone ever did anything. So we created a factory system consistent with that false view of hmuan nutare. But once that system of production was in place, there was really no other way for polepe to operate, except in a way that was consistent with Adam Smith's vision. So the work example is merely an example of how false iades can create a circumstance that ends up making them true.

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And that's how the industrial __________ created a factory system in which there was really nothing you could possibly get out of your day's work, except for the pay at the end of the day. Because the father — one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith — was _________ that human ______ were by their very natures lazy, and wouldn't do anything unless you made it _____ their while, and the way you made it worth their while was by incentivizing, by giving them rewards. That was the only reason anyone ever did anything. So we created a factory system consistent with that false view of _____ ______. But once that system of production was in place, there was really no other way for ______ to operate, except in a way that was consistent with Adam Smith's vision. So the work example is merely an example of how false _____ can create a circumstance that ends up making them true.

Solution

  1. people
  2. nature
  3. convinced
  4. revolution
  5. worth
  6. ideas
  7. human
  8. beings

Original Text

And that's how the industrial revolution created a factory system in which there was really nothing you could possibly get out of your day's work, except for the pay at the end of the day. Because the father — one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith — was convinced that human beings were by their very natures lazy, and wouldn't do anything unless you made it worth their while, and the way you made it worth their while was by incentivizing, by giving them rewards. That was the only reason anyone ever did anything. So we created a factory system consistent with that false view of human nature. But once that system of production was in place, there was really no other way for people to operate, except in a way that was consistent with Adam Smith's vision. So the work example is merely an example of how false ideas can create a circumstance that ends up making them true.

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