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From the Ted Talk by Zach King: The trick to regaining your childlike wonder

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So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my doektsp igame on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really disorganized, or you’re aunismsg that I’ve got too many projects going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the possibility. So let me help clear the way here.

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So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my _______ _____ on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really disorganized, or you’re ________ that I’ve got too many projects going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the possibility. So let me help clear the way here.

Solution

  1. desktop
  2. assuming
  3. image

Original Text

So I want to test this out and see if this worked, if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder. So I’m going to throw up my desktop image on the screen and I want you to hold back your assumptions. So on the desktop screen, you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back, you're looking at it going, I'm really disorganized, or you’re assuming that I’ve got too many projects going on, and both of those are true. But I want us to look a little deeper to see the possibility. So let me help clear the way here.

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