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From the Ted Talk by Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self

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At every stage of our lives we make dioiscens that will profoundly iunnelfce the lives of the people we're going to become, and then when we become those ppleoe, we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made. So young people pay good menoy to get tattoos removed that tgeaeners paid good money to get. Middle-aged people rsuehd to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on. The question is, as a psychologist, that fiataencss me is, why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret?

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At every stage of our lives we make _________ that will profoundly _________ the lives of the people we're going to become, and then when we become those ______, we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made. So young people pay good _____ to get tattoos removed that _________ paid good money to get. Middle-aged people ______ to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on. The question is, as a psychologist, that __________ me is, why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret?

Solution

  1. teenagers
  2. fascinates
  3. people
  4. rushed
  5. influence
  6. decisions
  7. money

Original Text

At every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we're going to become, and then when we become those people, we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made. So young people pay good money to get tattoos removed that teenagers paid good money to get. Middle-aged people rushed to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on. The question is, as a psychologist, that fascinates me is, why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret?

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