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It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.
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And these people, they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.
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They understand the power that this has.
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They know what they can do with it.
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Have no conscientiousness about it.
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How is social media making us dumber?
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And do you think brain rot is a real disease?
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i've noticed it in myself so
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if i can notice something in myself i don't have to feel like i'm superior to everyone else
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and it makes me understand what people are going through
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and i've noticed in myself levels of distraction that i didn't have before and so i for instance
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instagram now only in the last three or four years have i started really paying attention to Instagram.
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And the feed is unbelievable.
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You know, these videos are addicting.
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They're amazing.
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Animals, comedians, you know, exercises that you didn't know about, things like that, products.
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And you get addicted and you watch more and more of them.
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And it cuts off your ability to focus deeply on something
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because your mind is split up into 30 second little bits here
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and there and and there and there and there
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and i realized the reason it works is
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because it operates on your emotions it's not a conscious cognitive thing
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they know how to operate on your emotions they know what hooks you things
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that are pleasant things that are entertaining things that make you angry things
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that are informing you of something
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that you never thought of before they hit your emotions and they hit the most vital emotion of all, which is loneliness.
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You feel like you're a part of something.
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You're not so alone, right?
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Okay, you're in some kind of virtual community.
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But the human brain was designed for focus.
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That's our power.
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That is our superpower.
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It's what made us who we are.
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The fact that unlike an animal, and believe me, I think animals are incredibly intelligent, but they're always distracted.
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They're always looking around.
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Where's the predator coming next?
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When am I going to get eaten?
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You know, how do I protect myself?
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Where do I get food?
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We develop the ability to be able to be safe, first of all, and then to focus deeply on things like a rock
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that we can now turn into a weapon or a tool, right?
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Our brains developed out of our ability to focus without distractions for a minute, for two minutes, for five minutes for 30 minutes
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when our ancestors tracked large game in order to hunt
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and kill them they had to focus for hours and days tracking
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that game that's what developed the human brain that's how we're able to write books create music design buildings
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that don't fall down build things create things that are beautiful that are useful these constant distractions,
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these constant sense of what are other people doing that I'm not doing,
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what am I missing, is continually breaking that focus.
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It's like a circuit.
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The circuit is being short -circuited, you know, 20 times in the space of a couple minutes.
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Whereas if that two minutes where you're like getting all these little bits of feedings from your social media,
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If you were to take those two minutes and focus on a problem, focus on yourself, focus on your life, something very different would be happening.
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So it is literally deteriorating our brains.
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It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.
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And I don't say that from a position of superiority in judgment because I see it in myself.
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I see it and I understand it very deeply.
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And it's very human and these people who are programming us, and they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.
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They understand the power that this has.
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They know what they can do with it.
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And they completely have no conscientiousness about it.
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They take no responsibility for what they're doing to young people in their brains
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and how young people can't read a book anymore.
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They can't go through a 300 -page book
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because it's too long they're too distracted right they can't write an essay anymore
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because well they can get ai now to write the essay for them
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but and once again i'm not preaching i understand it
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if i were 20 years old growing up in this world i would be like
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that and it's already infecting me but it is rotting our brains and Anybody who argues against that, I don't know.
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I mean, the evidence I think is overwhelming that this is actually happening.
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But I wrote in my book, Mastery, literally it's a manual about how the human brain operates.
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And it's based on science and studies.
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And I'm showing you that this is the brain that we all inherited.
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And we are literally now in the process of trying to rewire our brains in a way that is not human,
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is not effective, is not powerful.
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and as far as the mechanism that makes us distracted
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and kind of takes us away from our roots of being
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able to focus on problems for an extended period of time is it just
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we're not built to experience all these different emotions back to back so quickly
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or is it all these different novel dopamine stimuli like what is it exactly well as i said it's emotion based
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so if it were just thoughts and ideas if they were just posts about plato and nietzsche and philosophy
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and you know all that stuff wouldn't have the power that it has we'd be able to control it
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In fact, we probably wouldn't be very interested in it.
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But because it plays on our emotions, we have to pay attention.
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And because we are, we think of ourselves as rational beings, but we are really emotional beings to the core.
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And we have very deep, rich emotions, and they play on those emotions.
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And when you get something that excites you, you see on your feed, something that excites you, you can't ignore it and and
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and it becomes an addiction you go down this hole so
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so people are getting addicted to like experiencing a bunch of emotions essentially I guess you could put it
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that way they're addicted to the experience of being taken outside of their day -to -day life
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and into this alternate realm where everything is interesting right okay
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so I love animals that's like one of my passions and I see, I don't really do TikTok, so I'm mostly on Instagram.
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And I know there's a whole bunch of other things that people are, Instagram's kind of passe probably.
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But I noticed there's like things about elephants or about tigers.
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Gee, I can't ignore that.
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They're so well done.
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They're so interesting that I have to watch it, right?
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And then now that I've watched one of them, now 10 of them suddenly appear.
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They flood.
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I noticed, like I started, I'm trying to like get my posture better because of my stroke.
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I saw one of post about how to correct your shoulders and loosen them up.
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And now hundreds of them.
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And I have to watch them because I'm something I'm interested in.
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They know how to hook you.
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They know how to, you're addicted to the experience of social media itself, of being entertained, diverted, distracted.
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I think that's the source of it.
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Thank you.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „Social Media is Warping Your Mind“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: brain, emotion, focus. Dieses Video enthält 106 Sätze und 1254 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 8:18. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 151 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 85 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| emotion Substantiv | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | Gefühl, Empfindung f Emotion |
| addict Substantiv | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | Süchtiger, Narkomane |
| distract Verb | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | ablenken |
| circuit Substantiv | /ˈsɝ.kɪt/ | Umlauf |
| deeply Adverb | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | tief |
| distraction Substantiv | /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | Ablenkung, Ablenkungsmanöver |
| ignore Verb | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorieren, missachten |
| hook Substantiv | /hʊk/ | Haken |
| essay Substantiv | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | Aufsatz, Essay |
| algorithm Substantiv | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | Algorithmus |
| entertain Verb | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | unterhalten |
| argue Verb | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | diskutieren, erörtern |
| superior Adjektiv | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | überlegen, höher |
| passion Substantiv | /ˈpæʃən/ | Leidenschaft, Passion |
| essentially Adverb | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | im Wesentlichen, im Grunde |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| cut off Verb | /ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf] | abschneiden |
| fall down Verb | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | niederfallen, umfallen |
| go down Verb | absteigen, hinabsteigen | |
| look around Verb | sich umsehen, sich umschauen |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- How is social media making us dumber?
- You feel like you're a part of something.
- When am I going to get eaten?
- You know, how do I protect myself?
- Where do I get food?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | is split · was designed · being taken |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | people who are · all, which is · Anybody who argues |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | i've noticed · I've watched |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 41 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel I'm, they're, can't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, rewire /ɹiːˈwaɪə(ɹ)/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/, flood /flʌd/, cognitive /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, neutralize /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
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 emotion, addict, distract.
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.