تدريب Shadowing: How to Become Extraordinary (or Not) - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو
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If you're like me, you're probably binge watching your 81st video right now.
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Hey, I can't blame you.
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I do the same shit.
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But you know, it's funny watching YouTube all the time or being on social media all the the time,
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you're always exposed to the most extraordinary parts of human experience.
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For instance, I can get on YouTube or Instagram
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and I can instantly see a guy pick up a thousand pounds off the floor
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and he's got arms like the size of my toilet bowl.
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Or I can see an eight-year-old who's better at piano than I am at anything, really.
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You see this encouragement of the extraordinary all over pop culture.
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You see it in talk shows, you see it in inspirational figures, you see it in commercials, and you especially see it in the self-help industry.
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One of the biggest things that's sold to you in the self-help industry is
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that we all have this special extraordinary thing inside us, and it's just waiting to get out.
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All you need to know is the secret to get it out of you.
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That unless you're doing something incredible with your life, then it's somehow wasted.
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I think this is bullshit.
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In fact, I think the problem isn't so much us, we've lost track of what normal, good human experience is actually like.
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First of all, most of us are going to be ordinary at the vast majority of things that we do.
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Second of all, even if you are able to lift a thousand pounds off the ground or whatever,
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doesn't necessarily make you a good father or a good friend or or even a good person.
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These extraordinary things that we're exposed to while being super cool
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and entertaining aren't necessarily the most important metrics to be gauging our lives on.
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So this is a bell curve and
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if you wanted to graph most human skills and activities
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and put all the people who are the very best on the right
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and all the people who are very worst on the left, what you end up getting is a nice bell shape.
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The vast majority of people are in the middle somewhere, and as you get out to either extreme, there are fewer and fewer people at those extremities.
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When we see something like, I don't know, Michael Jordan slam dunking, he's in the 99.9th percentile.
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He's one of the best human beings that has ever lived.
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He's on this part of the bell curve.
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He's so far on this end of the bell curve that you can't even see what's over there.
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He doesn't even show up on the graph.
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And then you take somebody like, I don't know, this guy, he's so much worse than everybody.
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He's on the other end of the bell curve.
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What all this great technology and media has done to us is that we are constantly exposed to the extremes, to the tail ends of the bell curve,
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while we go outside and our day-to-day life is in the fat, boring middle.
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But Mark, if I'm not extraordinary, what do I do with my life?
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And it's like, well, who says you need to be extraordinary to have a valuable and meaningful life?
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In fact, I would argue that some of the most important things in life are not extraordinary at all.
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Things like raising a kid well, things like taking care of your health, being an honest and good person to your friends and family.
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These are not extraordinary things.
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In fact, they are the most ordinary things.
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And I think they're ordinary things for a reason, because they're the most important.
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And there's a paradox to this as well.
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If you want to do one of those extraordinary things, the way you do it is by doing the ordinary extremely well for a long time.
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For instance, that dude who lifts a thousand pounds, I mean, he's probably been hitting the gym three hours a day for the last 25 years.
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There's nothing extraordinary about going into the gym and lifting slightly more weight than you did last time.
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When you compound that over the course of decades, you end up with an extraordinary result.
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But if you go into it looking for the extraordinary result, you're going to create false expectations and you're just going to feel like shit about yourself.
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And so there's this contrast.
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Our actual lived experience is, I'm just like everybody fucking else.
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But our expectation is, is I should be jumping out of planes in a wingsuit and fucking landing on Mount Everest.
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It's one of those things that while the intention is very good, I think it causes more suffering than it resolves.
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So I say fuck being extraordinary.
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Let's bring back the ordinary.
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Let's bring back being average.
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Because if we're being honest, we're all pretty average most of the time.
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And that's okay.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Become Extraordinary”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: extraordinary, bell, curve, ordinary, exposed. This video has 58 sentences and 831 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:45. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| curve noun | /kɚv/ | A bend, such as in a road. |
| expose verb | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. |
| expectation noun | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| graph noun | /ɡɹæf/ | A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or… |
| extremes noun | /ɪkˈstɹimz/ | The opposite ends of a range or scale. |
| extremity noun | /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ | The most extreme or furthest point of something. |
| percentile noun | /pɚˈsɛn.taɪl/ | Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population. |
| wingsuit noun | /ˈwɪŋˌsut/ | A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift. |
| dunk verb | /dʌŋk/ | To submerge briefly in a liquid. |
| binge noun | /bɪnd͡ʒ/ | A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. |
| paradox noun | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌdɒks/ | An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. |
| inspirational adjective | /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/ | Having the ability to inspire. |
| encouragement noun | [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt] | The act of encouraging |
| entertain verb | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. |
| metric adjective | /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bring back verb | /ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/ | To fetch something. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Hey, I can't blame you.
- Let's bring back the ordinary.
- Let's bring back being average.
القواعد في هذا الفيديو
أكثر التراكيب التي يستخدمها المتحدث، مع العبارات نفسها من الفيديو:
| التركيب | في الفيديو |
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| المضارع التام have/has + اسم المفعول — حدث ماضٍ ما زال له أثر الآن | we've lost · has ever lived · has done |
| جمل الوصل who / which + جملة — معلومة إضافية عن شخص أو شيء | people who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 22 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, we're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, extremity /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/, encouragement [ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like curve, expose, expectation.
ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟
التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.