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Hey, slow down.

I got something to talk about for a minute.

I hate going to the grocery store.

It freaking sucks.

I do not come here because I have to.

I do come here because I have to.

Not because I want to.

It's become kind of a necessary evil.

I got to spend hours of my life coming here for my family.

But I've been challenging myself recently.

Instead of coming in here, flying in, trying to grab everything I need, check out, leave.

Can I slow down?

Kind of relax a little bit?

Peruse the aisles?

Maybe even enjoy myself?

I've been wearing earbuds to the store to try to make this happen.

I hate it when people are always wearing their AirPods out in public.

But I have bit the bullet because if you can shift into this gear,

you're shifting into the same gear as some of the people who have lived the longest in the world.

120 year old people.

And there's a name for this gear.

Harvard calls it slow living.

Slowing down to a very comfortable pace and being okay in the moment that you're in.

Taking it all in people who can do this can avoid all this stress and tension that comes with life sometimes.

And it turns out that stuff kind of kills you.

If you're stressed out all the time, your cells age faster, your DNA can get damaged.

Serious stuff.

And guess what?

Gene Calment, 122 years old.

Richard Overton, 112.

All these people that lived super long lives, They're smoking.

They're drinking.

But they're not letting stuff stress them out.

They let go of stuff.

So it might be worth asking yourself, when you're feeling rushed, could I slow down and enjoy this?

And you might be surprised when the trade -off isn't actually as bad as you thought it might be.

There's a great story about this.

A guy, Derek, he loved riding his bike.

He lived out in California by the coast

and there is this 15 mile loop right on the ocean that he would go to all the time.

And he kind of got in a habit of just hauling through this thing.

He knew it backwards and forwards.

He could do the whole thing in about 43 minutes.

But what starts to happen is then if he hits it longer than 43 minutes, he's a little bit like, ah man.

So one day he's going and he's tired.

He's kind of stressed out.

The idea of having to do this crazy

Thing he just doesn't have it in him.

So he's like, you know what today I don't care about the time.

I'm just gonna go at a pace that feels comfortable for me

So he's going he's a little bit more relaxed.

There's a dolphin jumping in the ocean

He looks up and there's a seagull flying over his head and it poops in his mouth apparently.

I don't know if that's true but that's what he says.

So that part's not good but he feels like he can just go forever.

This is great.

He kind of remembers his joy for cycling.

He looks down at his watch when he's done.

45 minutes.

Two minutes longer than his usual time.

he would just squeeze all the juice

he had in him go as hard as possible for four percent faster than today

and that is a lesson that he never forgot

and it makes me wonder could I relax

and get pretty much the same result I think that's true more often than we might think

that's what he called his blog article relax for the same result wrote

it in 2015 i'll link it my dad sent me

that i don't know

but the other thing is uh

you might be sacrificing a lot more than just stress by not slowing down enough

i had this manager at work his name was mcqueen

i'm just gonna call him that

because he likes going fast okay we had this project we're assigned

and he wants to get this thing done as fast as possible.

He wants to impress the CEO.

He knows he wants it done.

And he's like, we can just like...

Faster than fast, quicker than quick.

It's just the two of us.

I'm the one building it.

And I just kind of slapped this thing out.

And he's like, all right, let's go release it.

Send it out to production.

This is like software stuff.

And now, was everybody really impressed?

No, they hated it.

It broke immediately

and people were like what the heck is going on people are complaining

we're getting tickets coming in i have to spend more time fixing

this stupid thing than i did building it in the first place

i ended up having to answer for this in my performance review it was it was not good

and uh this is why the military has a mantra slow is smooth smooth is fast i think enough guys

messed stuff up severely.

You know, but if you take a step back, you can see your surroundings and make sure you're stepping in the right places.

You go to the grocery store, try to just get in and out as fast as possible.

You forget something.

And then halfway through the week, you have to come back and you had Cheetos for lunch.

So it might not be a bad idea to ask yourself, Could I slow down and not just get the same result,

but maybe a better one?

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That's true a lot of the time, I think.

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Now here's the deal.

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I love going fast, right?

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I like driving fast, exercising.

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There's times to do it.

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But when you're going fast, ask yourself, am I doing this because it's fun?

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Or am I going fast because I feel some kind of pressure?

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Am I stressed out right now?

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Is this fast fun or fear?

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That's what you should ask.

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Is it fast fun, fear, fight on fall?

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Now look, pressure is fun sometimes and stress has a purpose.

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It's also good sometimes.

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Push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations, but just remember that sometimes you have a choice in the matter.

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That's kind of the point, right?

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Slow down, enjoy your life, break less stuff, and live longer.

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Hopefully.

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You know.

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I'm sorry.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How to live longer and make it suck less”. Las palabras que más se repiten: fast, slow, stress. Este vídeo tiene 118 frases y 1065 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:26. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 143 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
relax verbo	/ɹɪˈlæks/	relajar, aflojar
distress sustantivo	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	distrés, distress
gear sustantivo	/ɡɪɚ/	pertrecho, pertrechos
pace sustantivo	/peɪs/	paso
impress verbo	/ɪmˈpɹɛs/	impresionar
rush verbo	/ɹʌʃ/	correr, apurarse
lesson sustantivo	/ˈlɛs.ən/	lección
suck verbo	/sʌk/	chupar, sorber
gene sustantivo	/d͡ʒiːn/	gen, gene
juice sustantivo	/d͡ʒuːs/	zumo, jugo
loop sustantivo	/luːp/	lazo, lazada
sacrifice sustantivo	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	sacrificio
bullet sustantivo	/ˈbʊlɪt/	bala, proyectil
habit sustantivo	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	costumbre, hábito
complain verbo	/kəmˈpleɪn/	quejarse, alegar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
slow down verbo		desacelerar, decelerar
stress out verbo		agobiar, estresar
check out verbo		investigar, chequear
end up verbo		terminar, ir a parar
look up verbo	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	mejorar
turn out verbo		resultar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

Can I slow down?
It's just the two of us.
I'm the one building it.
That's true a lot of the time, I think.
Am I stressed out right now?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	people who have · people who can
Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro	might be · might think · might not be
Comparativos -er than / more … than — comparar dos cosas	longer than · faster than · more often than
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días	are always wearing · you're shifting · They're smoking

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 25 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: smooth /smuːð/, slap /slæp/, squeeze /skwiːz/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: squeeze /skwiːz/, surroundings /səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/, peruse /pəˈɹuːz/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: gene /d͡ʒiːn/, juice /d͡ʒuːs/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como relax, distress, gear.

¿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.

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