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 ― ____ feedback we need to update our beliefs about reality.

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

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

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

This way we can always be ____

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

We become ____ in defending instead of upgrading our ideas.

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

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

For ____ loudness, rudeness, and outbursts are 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 in youth, crying is considered childish ____

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

____ 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., adulthood).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emotionally, ____ want to look as good as possible.

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

One ____ misunderstanding of evolution is that it leads inexorably to organisms that are 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 of ____ of perfection.

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

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

An antelope does not have to become the fastest animal on ____ it simply has to 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 ____ top speed; nor do they have to be able to catch every prey animal.

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

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