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The habit nobody told you about.
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You know that one person who just seems fine no matter what the day throws at them?
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Not performing it, not faking it, just steady.
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And you've probably wondered what they know that you don't.
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Here's what they know.
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Happiness was never about what happens to you.
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It's about what your brain has been trained to do with it, one small repeated habit at a time.
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I'm calling this the rewire effect.
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And by the end of this video, you'll have 10 small easy ways to trigger it, starting from the moment you wake up tomorrow.
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Why this actually works.
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Most people think happiness is personality, something you're born with or without.
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Others think it shows up once life improves, the better job, the bigger house, the right relationship.
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Both are wrong.
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If happiness only came from circumstances, every successful person you've ever envied would be happy, and you already know plenty who aren't.
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Here's the real mechanism.
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Your brain doesn't build your mood from your biggest wins, it builds it from your most repeated actions.
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Neurons that fire together wire together, so every small thing you repeat becomes the path your brain reaches for by default.
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Someone who always snaps under pressure didn't come out of the womb that way.
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Their brain just collected enough repeats to settle on the story.
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The first five.
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Habit number one.
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Soften your face before you feel like it.
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It's the moment your alarm goes off, and before your eyes are even fully open, your face is already doing what it did yesterday.
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Jaw tight, brow low, braced for a day that hasn't done anything to you yet.
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Your brain doesn't just create your emotions, it reads your body for clues about how worried it should be.
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So catch yourself in the mirror while you're brushing your teeth and try this.
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Unclench your jaw, let your shoulders drop, let the corners of your mouth lift just slightly.
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Hold it for 15 seconds.
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In the 1980s, psychologist Fritz Strack at the University of Würzburg had people hold a pen in their teeth, forcing a smile -shaped face,
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without ever telling them to feel happy.
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And they rated cartoons funnier than the group holding the pen with their lips, which blocked the smile.
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Your brain read the shape of the face before it read anything else.
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You don't have to feel safe to look safe.
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Sometimes, your brain just needs you to go first.
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Habit number two, turn down the noise.
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You sit down with breakfast, and your thumb is already moving toward your phone before you've chosen to pick it up.
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Notifications, a headline, someone else's good morning, before you've even finished your coffee.
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Your brain was never built to process that much input before 8 a .m.
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UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark has spent years studying what happens
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when attention gets interrupted mid -task and calls the leftover fog it leaves behind attention residue,
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part of your mind stuck on the last thing even after you've moved to the next one.
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So some of what feels like morning anxiety isn't really about your day.
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It's about everything you let in before your day started.
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Eat breakfast with your phone in another room.
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It feels strange at first, almost boring.
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Stay with it anyway.
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Your brain isn't broken.
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It's just never been given a quiet room to think in
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habit number three face one hard thing before noon by 10
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a .m you've already found four small things to do instead
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of the one thing you're actually avoiding the call the inbox
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the drawer you keep shutting without cleaning your brain is quietly taking notes on what kind of person you are
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and if the first difficult thing of the day is something you dodge
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that gets filed away too Stanford health psychologist Kelly McGonigal's research on self -control found
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that willpower behaves less like a fixed trait and more like a muscle, weaker when you avoid using it, steadier the more you call on it.
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So pick the uncomfortable task and do it first, not because the task itself matters that much, but because of what it teaches your brain.
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I don't run from hard things.
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The task doesn't change your day, doing it first does.
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Habit number four, give every impulse a 60 -second delay.
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Early in the afternoon, a message makes your stomach drop, and your thumbs are already typing the angry reply before your brain has caught up with your hands.
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The urge to fire back, to buy something you don't need, to quit the second something gets hard, none of these urges are permanent.
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They just feel loud for about a minute.
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Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel spent decades studying exactly this gap,
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famously leaving children alone with a marshmallow and the promise of a second one if they could wait.
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The ones who managed it weren't braver by nature, they'd just learn to distract themselves long enough for the urge to lose its grip.
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Try the same thing with that text message.
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Say, not yet, instead of no. Take one slow breath.
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Most of what feels urgent isn't.
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It just feels that way for about 60 seconds.
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Habit number five.
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Chase the tiny win, not the big one.
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By mid -afternoon, you're stuck, staring at the same paragraph, waiting to feel motivated enough to start.
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That wait is the mistake.
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Your brain doesn't release its feel -good chemicals when you finish the big project.
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It releases them the moment it detects any progress at all.
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Harvard Business School researcher Teresa Amabile tracked the daily diaries of hundreds of knowledge workers
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and found the single biggest driver of their mood wasn't recognition or pay.
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It was the simple feeling of progress.
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even in small, unglamorous ways.
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So don't wait to feel ready.
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Answer the one message you've been avoiding.
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Move one line on the spreadsheet.
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You don't need motivation to start.
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You need one small win, and motivation shows up after.
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Quick gut check.
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Out of those five, soften your face, turn down the noise, face the hard thing, delay the impulse, chase the tiny win.
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Which one would you actually try tomorrow?
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Not agree with, actually try subscribe and comment
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which one I read every comment now let's keep going the
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ones most people skip habit number six let the good moments linger later
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that afternoon someone says something kind about work you did
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and you clock it for about half a second before moving
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on here's something strange about your brain it photographs the bad stuff instantly and barely glances at the good stuff.
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Psychologist Roy Baumeister at Florida State University reviewed decades of research
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and concluded that bad events simply affect us more than good ones of equal size, an asymmetry researchers now just call the negativity bias.
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It's not a flaw in you.
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It's a brain that evolved to weight threats heavier than treats.
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So the next time something small goes right, don't rush past it.
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Sit with it for a few extra seconds.
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Actually feel it.
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That's That's the only way your brain files it away as proof that good things happen too.
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Habit number seven, let yourself play for no reason.
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The work day ends, and somewhere between your laptop closing and dinner, you have maybe 40 minutes where nothing is required of you.
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Most people fill it with more scrolling, because somewhere between childhood and now, hobbies became side projects, walks became cardio,
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even rest started needing to earn its place.
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Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist who founded the National Institute for Play, spent years studying what happens to people and animals deprived of unstructured play,
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and found the same stuck, joyless state across species.
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Your brain doesn't only want achievement.
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It wants a little time with nothing riding on it.
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Draw something nobody will see.
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Kick a ball around.
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You didn't stop playing because you grew up.
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You stopped because you decided it had to mean something first.
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Habit number eight, move before you feel like moving.
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By the time dinner's done, you're lower on energy than you'd like to admit, and the couch is making a very convincing argument.
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This is usually where the day quietly turns sour.
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Not because anything new went wrong, just because you've been sitting in whatever it left behind.
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Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John Rady has spent his career studying what exercise does to brain chemistry,
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and describes movement as one of the fastest ways to change mental state that we have.
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You don't need a workout.
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A five -minute walk around the block changes the chemical weather inside you.
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Your body moves first.
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Your mind follows.
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It rarely works the other way around.
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Habit number nine, review your evidence every night.
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Brushing your teeth again, this time at night, your mind drifts to what went wrong.
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The email you botched, the thing you said, the thing you didn't finish.
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Most people only ever replay the bad parts.
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Clinical psychologist Christine Padesky developed a technique she calls the positive
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data log after noticing how easily her patients' minds discarded any evidence
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that didn't match the negative story they already believed about themselves.
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Before you fall asleep, ask yourself one question instead.
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What did I do today that the old version of me wouldn't have done?
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Stayed calm when you usually snap.
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Kept a promise you made only to yourself.
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Your brain believes whatever you keep handing it proof of.
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The habit that ties it all together.
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Habit number 10.
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Repeat it until it's automatic.
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Lying there in the dark, replaying the day you just had.
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Soft face at the mirror, quiet phone at breakfast, the hard call, the message you didn't send too fast,
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the tiny win, the kind word you actually noticed, the 40 minutes of nothing, the walk, the evidence you just reviewed.
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Here's the one thing underneath all nine of those, the reason none of them worked as a one -time fix.
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University of Southern California psychologist Wendy Wood has spent decades studying how habits form, and her research keeps landing on the same finding.
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A behavior only becomes automatic, something your brain runs without deciding to, after it's been repeated in the same context enough times that the decision disappears.
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That's the 10th habit.
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Less a habit than the rule the other nine run on.
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Repeat it until it's automatic.
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Not for one good day like today.
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For long enough that your brain stops treating it as effort and starts treating it as identity.
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Softening your face once won't change anything.
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Catching one impulse won't either.
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It's the 50th morning that counts, not the first.
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Remember that person from the start of this video?
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The one who just seems fine no matter what the day throws at them?
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They didn't have an easier today than you just had.
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They just had a few thousand todays before this one, landing the same small drops in the same places.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „10 Easy Habits That Train Your Brain for Happiness“. Dieses Video enthält 157 Sätze und 1832 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 10:51. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 169 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| habit Substantiv | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | Gewohnheit, Gepflogenheit |
| psychologist Substantiv | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | Psychologe, Psychologin |
| happiness Substantiv | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | Glück, Glücklichkeit |
| automatic Adjektiv | /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/ | automatisch |
| urge Verb | /ɜːd͡ʒ/ | drängen, mahnen |
| researcher Substantiv | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | Forscher, Forscherin |
| impulse Substantiv | /ˈɪmpʌls/ | Impuls, Triebkraft |
| mirror Substantiv | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | Spiegel |
| chase Verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | jagen, verfolgen |
| mood Substantiv | /muːd/ | Gemüt, Stimmung |
| delay Substantiv | /dɪˈleɪ̯/ | Verzögerung, Verspätung |
| steady Adjektiv | /ˈstɪdi/ | stetig |
| brush Substantiv | /bɹʌʃ/ | Bürste, (paint-) Pinsel |
| motivation Substantiv | /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/ | Motivation, Motivierung |
| snap Verb | /snæp/ | abbrechen |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| leave behind Verb | zurücklassen, hinterlassen | |
| show up Verb | auftauchen, erscheinen | |
| turn down Verb | ablehnen, absagen | |
| go off Verb | explodieren | |
| grow up Verb | aufwachsen, erwachsen werden | |
| wake up Verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | aufwachen, erwachen |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- I'm calling this the rewire effect.
- You don't have to feel safe to look safe.
- I don't run from hard things.
- Answer the one message you've been avoiding.
- Which one would you actually try tomorrow?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauert | you've been avoiding · you've been sitting |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | you've probably wondered · has been trained · you've ever envied |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | has been trained · was never built · isn't broken |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | person who just · Someone who always · ones who managed |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 46 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, you've, didn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: thumb /ˈθʌm/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: brush /bɹʌʃ/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, automatic /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/, wire /ˈwaɪɚ/, workout /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/, weaker /ˈwikɚ/, womb /wuːm/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: urge /ɜːd͡ʒ/, mood /muːd/, brave /bɹeɪv/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, automatic /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, snap /snæp/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie habit, psychologist, happiness.
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