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A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut,

so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher Morgan Spurlock and try something new for 30 days.

The idea is actually pretty simple.

Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days.

It turns out, 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit, like watching the news from your life.

There's a few things that I learned while doing these 30-day challenges.

The first was, instead of the months flying by forgotten, the time was much more memorable.

This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month, and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day.

I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew.

I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun.

Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.

I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days.

Have you ever wanted to write a novel?

Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel from scratch in 30 days.

It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did.

By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words for the day.

You might be sleep deprived, but you'll finish your novel.

Now, is my book the next great American novel?

No, I wrote it in a month.

It's awful.

But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don't have to say, I'm a computer scientist.

No, no. If I want to, I can say, I'm a novelist.

So here's one last thing I'd like to mention.

I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick.

There's nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges.

In fact, they're a ton of fun, but they're less likely to stick.

When I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked like this.

So here's my question to you.

What are you waiting for?

I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass, whether you like it or not.

So why not think about something you have always wanted to try?

And give it a shot for the next 30 days.

Thanks.

Thank you to everyone that took the time to vote for us on the Mazda Rebels Hub.

We've been humbled by the support that we've received and the Mazda grant is going to make a huge difference.

The grant is going to support three major projects, both getting peaked out there to the community, it's going to support a hospital in Kenya to deliver eye care immediately,

and a bakery which is going to provide employment and a sustainable way of delivering eye care into the future.

We're really excited about sharing these different projects.

There are many challenges ahead, but come back here and we'll share the stories with you as they happen.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Matt Cutts: "Try Something New for 30 Days"”. Las palabras que más se repiten: challenge, novel, month, write, word. Este vídeo tiene 41 frases y 583 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:02. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 144 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. 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

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
sustainable adjetivo	/səˈsteɪnəbəl/	sostenible, sustentable
habit sustantivo	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	costumbre, hábito
adventurous adjetivo	/ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/	intrépido, aventurero
deprive verbo	/dɪˈpɹaɪv/	desproveer (de), privar (de)
footstep sustantivo	/ˈfʊtstɛp/	huella, paso
reviewer sustantivo		reseñista, reseñante
subtract verbo	/səbˈtɹækt/	restar, sustraer
dwell verbo	/dwɛl/	habitar, morar
novelist sustantivo	/ˈnɑvəlɪst/	novelista
bakery sustantivo	/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/	panadería, tahona
philosopher sustantivo	/fəˈlɑsəfɚ/	filósofo, filósofa
hike sustantivo	/haɪk/	caminata
memorable adjetivo	/ˈmɛm.(ə)ɹə.bl̩/	memorable, inolvidable
humble adjetivo	/ˈhʌmbəl/	modesto, humilde
scratch verbo	/skɹæt͡ʃ/	rascar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
turn out verbo	resultar
end up verbo	terminar, ir a parar
figure out verbo	averiguar, captar
give up verbo	rendirse, entregar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

Have you ever wanted to write a novel?
What are you waiting for?
We're really excited about sharing these different projects.

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	you've always wanted · have been · Have you ever wanted
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	was stuck · We've been humbled
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	guy who bikes · bakery which is
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venir	are going to pass · is going to make · is going to support

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, they're, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Palabras largas — cuida el acento: sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, adventurous /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: adventurous /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/, deprive /dɪˈpɹaɪv/, novelist /ˈnɑvəlɪst/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, hike /haɪk/, humble /ˈhʌmbəl/

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 sustainable, habit, adventurous.

¿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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