올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 16강 변형

Many of us tend to have too much invested in our opinions ____ ourselves to see the world’s feedback ― the feedback we need to update our beliefs about reality.

This creates a profound ignorance that keeps ____ banging our head against the wall over and over again.

Our inability to learn from the world because of ____ ego happens for many reasons, but two are worth mentioning here.

First, we’re so afraid ____ what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to criticism.

This way we can always ____ right.

Second, if we do put our ideas out there and they ____ criticized, our ego steps in to protect us.

We become invested in defending instead ____ upgrading our ideas.

Our ego’s fear of being judged and ____ to defend ourselves often blind us from valuable feedback, hindering our ability to learn and grow.

Emotional differences exist across ages, and there are ideal emotional paradigms for are realized and solidified with the ____ of normative group behaviors.

For example, loudness, rudeness, and outbursts ____ associated with loss of self-control, and these emotions are often expressed among children.

In childhood, crying is criticized but forgiven because it is consistent with the child’s emotional profile, whereas ____ youth, crying is considered childish behavior.

As individuals mature intellectually and increase self-control and social sensitivity, they ____ form emotions such as melancholy, sadness, etc.

This shows the fact that some emotions can only be experienced at a certain age, and virtues such as integrity and wisdom are associated with certain stages of life (e.g., ____

Emotions are associated with levels of maturity, which ____ influenced by social norms, leading individuals to experience different emotions at various ages.

The discovery that identities change the way we seek ____ raises interesting questions.

For ____ there is ample evidence that people try to make themselves look good in many situations.

In contrast, researchers also found that ____ seek out negative information about themselves if it supports a negative identity.

How is it that a person wants ____ make herself look good, while at the same time she wants to make herself look bad?

Some researchers ____ that people try to obtain information that is consistent with their identities, whether they think of themselves positively or negatively.

That is, people ____ information that seems to them to be true, even if that information is negative about themselves.

In contrast, positive information makes people feel good, whether it is consistent with their identity ____ not.

Emotionally, people want ____ look as good as possible.

We seek information that matches our identity, yet overall our emotions pushes us toward ____ information.

One common misunderstanding of evolution is that it leads inexorably to organisms ____ are ever better designed.

But Darwinian evolution is not a process of perfection. In contrast to the Lamarckian and Great Chain ____ Being theories of evolution, natural selection does not inexorably drive species up some kind of ladder of perfection.

Rather, natural selection is, to borrow a ____ from economics, a process that leads to satisficing (just being “good enough for now”).

In other words, so long as you survive and do better than your rivals, that is ____ enough.

An antelope does not have to become the fastest animal on earth; it simply has to be faster than the lions ____ try to catch it.

By the same token, lions and other predators do not have to be able to run marathons at top speed; nor do they ____ to be able to catch every prey animal.

They just have to be fast ____ to catch sufficient prey animals to survive.

While natural selection is often thought of as a process toward seeking flawlessness, its goal is to equip organisms ____ just enough ability to outperform their rivals for survival.