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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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Social Media is Warping Your Mind”. Las palabras que más se repiten: brain, emotion, focus. Este vídeo tiene 106 frases y 1254 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:18. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 151 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| emotion sustantivo | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | afecto, emoción |
| addict sustantivo | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | adicto, viciado |
| distract verbo | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | distraer, despistar |
| deeply adverbio | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | a fondo |
| distraction sustantivo | /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | distracción |
| ignore verbo | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorar, desoír |
| hook sustantivo | /hʊk/ | gancho, garfio |
| essay sustantivo | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | ensayo, redacción |
| algorithm sustantivo | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | algoritmo |
| entertain verbo | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | divertir, entretener |
| argue verbo | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | argüir, argumentar |
| superior adjetivo | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | superior |
| passion sustantivo | /ˈpæʃən/ | pasión |
| essentially adverbio | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | esencialmente, en esencia |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | mientras que (locution) |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | atravesar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- 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?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is split · was designed · being taken |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people who are · all, which is · Anybody who argues |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | i've noticed · I've watched |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 41 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, they're, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vital /ˈvaɪtəl/, virtual /ˈvɜɹt͡ʃuəl/, cognitive /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, divert /daɪˈvɝt/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, pleasant /ˈplɛz.ənt/, neutralize /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, judgment /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/
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 emotion, addict, distract.
¿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.