올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 16강 변형

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

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

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

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

This ____ we can always be right.

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

We become invested in defending instead of upgrading our ____

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

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

For example, loudness, rudeness, and outbursts are associated with loss of ____ 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 in youth, crying is considered childish ____

As individuals mature intellectually and increase self-control and social sensitivity, they gradually form emotions such as ____ 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 ____ certain stages of life (e.g., adulthood).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In contrast, positive ____ makes people feel good, whether it is consistent with their identity or 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 that ____ ever better designed.

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

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

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

An antelope does not have to become the fastest animal on earth; it simply has ____ be faster than the lions that 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 ____ they have to be able to catch every prey animal.

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

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