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Okay, today I'm gonna help you get out of a rut.
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Maybe you're a creative or an ambitious person who's fallen off.
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Probably you fall into these vicious cycles all the time of self -improvement
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and then self -destruction where you like get your life together
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and build the perfect workout program and exactly what you want out of your life.
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You stay consistent with it for like a week or two
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and then you fall off and you spiral back into cheap dopamine, binging.
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I get it, I've been there.
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I've done that many times myself
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and I've gotten really good at getting out of the rut that forms when you fall into this pattern.
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So all we're going to do today is just break down the process into a series of simple steps you can follow.
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What I want you to do is get a journal, a piece of paper, something you can write on.
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I want you to get a pen, and we're just going to think through this together.
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And then you're going to take some action.
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This is very simple.
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It's nothing you haven't heard before.
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All I'm going to do is try to give you a helpful voice in your head
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that then makes you actually want to do it.
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So the trick is this.
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We have to recondition your brain to get satisfaction from doing difficult things.
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If you have fallen off and you're in a rut, probably your brain is really addicted to getting that quick hit of pleasure
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or satisfaction from scrolling or vaping or smoking weed or drinking or binge eating or watching porn, any number of cheap dopamine substances.
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I get it.
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Again, no shame, no guilt.
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You're a human being.
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Those things tend to be awesome when you're in a really bad state.
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So I get it.
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We have to get your brain to be like, oh, I enjoy meaningful progress.
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I enjoy moving towards a goal and I enjoy facing challenge in order to get closer to that goal.
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So this looks like working out.
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This looks like writing.
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This looks like doing the dishes, putting on clean clothes, going to the store to buy groceries, to do some of these things.
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You understand the deal.
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And none of it is glamorous when you do it.
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But over time, your brain's going to be like, yep, I like this.
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I like this.
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I feel like I'm stacking up points.
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It's more about getting into this state where you are seeking those things out
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and it just takes a little bit of coaxing, okay?
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Because right now in the rut, it feels impossible.
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And then whatever creative ambition or passion in life you wanna pursue feels definitely impossible, right?
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Because it's just like, how could I possibly do something difficult right now when I can't get myself out of bed?
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So we're just gonna coax you into a state of doing that, okay?
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And understand the power of momentum is that
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if you do get your feet on the floor and then stand up and then put on clothes, take a shower, put on clothes,
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do the dishes, is make yourself a single egg and then eat that and then go for a walk around the block.
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If you can just stack up like 10 of those things, immediately you're going to start feeling better, right?
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Now, and then over the course of the week, you're going to slowly remove the cheap dopamine substances so
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that your brain naturally gets excited by the difficult challenge or by the writing practice.
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If you want creative work to replace your consumption addictions, you have to remove the consumption addictions so that it becomes interesting, right?
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In a world where you're distracted all the time, writing, performing music, whatever your passion is, is just not going to be that fun, right?
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Or it won't be fun if your brain is overloaded with cheap dopamine you didn't earn.
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You know this, I know this, we're just reviewing it again because it's good to talk about.
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The real thing we need to get into is understanding the force that causes that fall -off effect, which is entropy.
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Entropy means chaos.
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It can also mean resistance.
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Resistance as defined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art.
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Resistance, or entropy, or chaos, whatever you really want to call it, is just all the shit,
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internal and external, that gets in the way of you doing what you want to do, or that makes it hard.
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Internal resistance, internal entropy is self -doubt.
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It's the desire to be distracted.
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It's the desire to do something besides what you know you should be doing.
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External resistance is just all of the inconvenience of life.
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It's extreme weather events.
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It's having to do stuff for your job.
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It's family drama.
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It's all of the difficult stuff that demands your attention that you don't really want to do.
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We have to learn to navigate all of this stuff.
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This is a crucial skill of being a creative in the 21st century, of being a human being in the 21st century or any century.
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We have to be able to face the inevitable chaos of life.
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And the mistake is thinking that we can somehow not deal with chaos.
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When you fantasize about your perfect locked in existence, you're very rarely factoring in all of the inevitable entropy,
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when you can't sleep because you had too much caffeine during the day,
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or when you have a throat infection and have to go to the doctor
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and that gets in the way of your perfect dialed robotic routine.
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You rarely account for these things when you're imagining, when you're fantasizing, when you're mentally masturbating about your future life.
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So now we're going to get real and we're going to say these things happen and we need to somehow stay aligned,
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stay connected to our more aligned identities when the inevitable chaos presents itself, because it is inevitable.
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What happens when you fall off is you let entropy sweep you away.
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This is my experience, at least.
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I've had so many experiences where I get really locked in and I get really dialed in my lifestyle.
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I start writing, I'm working out, I feel really, I feel like I'm connected to that locked in version, the future that I want to live.
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And then entropy rears its ugly head, internal or external.
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Internal being, oh, I get distracted
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And then now I don't feel like I'm, um, who I said I was or external entropy.
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I get sick.
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I get a throat infection.
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I get a gut infection that happened to me this summer.
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I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.
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And then suddenly you're like, oh, I'm not perfect.
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The whole system is going to collapse.
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I am.
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I am.
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I can't do this.
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I can't be perfect.
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So I'm not going to do it at all.
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And this typically happens gradually.
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But you see the problem, right?
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It's like this this isn't going to work for us.
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The real skill we have to build is being able to ride the wave of entropy, chaos, inevitable discomfort, inconvenience, blah,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, without losing ourselves and being able to engage with the system imperfectly.
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So what I'll invite
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you to do is I'd like you to take the pen on the piece of paper you took out,
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and I want you to write down just exactly what happened the last time you fell off maybe this was today, maybe this was last week.
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I just want you to write out the sequence of events that led to it.
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And I want you to look for the pattern in there.
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Notice where the entropy comes in.
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Was it internal or external, right?
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Was it something that happened that was outside your control that then made you give up on yourself?
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Or was it something internal?
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And then you kind of bought back into the narrative of being not locked in, of being undisciplined, of being weak, a shameful, addicted creature.
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You see how these narratives inform our actions, right?
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When we believe that we are addicted, helpless, we tend to do those things more.
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When we believe that we are locked in, that we're disciplined, that we're powerful creatures that can do amazing things,
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we typically engage with the meaningful challenge a little bit more.
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And the way that you influence that narrative is through the action.
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Forget about the imagining who you want to be and just do the things.
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Action rewires the whole narrative.
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And that's the power of doing a million small things.
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Not a million, but like a hundred small things.
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Get out of bed, put on clean clothes, take a shower, do a workout, go for a walk, listen to music,
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listen to a song that makes you feel like yourself.
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Write down every single thing you can about what you're struggling with.
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And then you start to feel like a human being again.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How to get out of creative block”. Las palabras que más se repiten: entropy, internal, chaos. Este vídeo tiene 124 frases y 1522 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:13. El hablante habla rápido, unas 211 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| chaos sustantivo | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | caos |
| inevitable adjetivo | /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/ | inevitable |
| narrative sustantivo | /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/ | narrativa |
| cloth sustantivo | /klɒθ/ | tela |
| infection sustantivo | /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/ | infección, infición |
| distract verbo | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | distraer, despistar |
| addict sustantivo | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | adicto, viciado |
| passion sustantivo | /ˈpæʃən/ | pasión |
| rarely adverbio | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | rara vez, raramente |
| skill sustantivo | /skɪl/ | destreza, habilidad |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | conectar, empalmar |
| engage verbo | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | embebecer, embelesar |
| consumption sustantivo | /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/ | consumo, consumición |
| throat sustantivo | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | garganta, gorja |
| substance sustantivo | /ˈsʌbstəns/ | sustancia, substancia |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| fall off verbo | caer |
| get out of verbo | salirse de, ponerse fuera de |
| write down verbo | apuntar, anotar |
| break down verbo | descomponerse, averiarse |
| stand up verbo | levantarse, ponerse de pie |
| take out verbo | sacar |
| think through verbo | cavilar |
| walk around verbo | deambular |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- I get it, I've been there.
- It's nothing you haven't heard before.
- I feel like I'm stacking up points.
- It's having to do stuff for your job.
- I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've been · I've done · I've gotten |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is really addicted · is overloaded · be distracted |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 50 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skill /skɪl/, stack /stæk/, sweep /swiːp/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: groceries /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, fantasize /ˈfæntəˌsaɪz/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como chaos, inevitable, narrative.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.