Shadowing Practice: How To Stop Taking Things Personally - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I have good news and bad news.
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It's not about you.
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Imagine that somebody across the street waves at you, so you wave back to them.
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But then you realize that they're waving at the guy behind you and you're so embarrassed that you want to evaporate.
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You're going to replay this in the shower for the next three years.
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Whereas the person who waved at you has already forgotten it by the time that they reached their friend.
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See, the guy behind you never noticed.
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Nobody on that street noticed either.
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They weren't thinking about you.
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Because everybody on that street was thinking about themselves.
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That girl that you like who left your text on red three hours ago,
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you've reread your own message four times looking for what you said wrong.
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Meanwhile, she's in a dentist chair, or her dog just puked on her couch, or her phone died, or she saw it and thought,
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I'll answer that later.
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And then her brain did what every brain does with every text.
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She forgot about it.
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You're one of the 47 notifications that she got today wedged between a target receipt
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and a reminder to renew her car registration.
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Basically, it's not about you.
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Or let's say the worst -case scenario is actually true.
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She's not into you.
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She doesn't want to see you.
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She doesn't want to talk to you.
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You can take that as a judgment on your character and value as a human being,
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or you can realize that she has a vast network of internal values and associations that she's made,
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and for whatever reason, your unique combination of traits
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and behaviors does not stimulate the correct sequence of stimuli in her hypothalamus to trigger a conscious experience of arousal.
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You didn't do anything wrong.
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She didn't do anything wrong it was just never going to happen anyway, and it was always outside of your control.
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Basically, it's still not about you.
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Or how about this?
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Your friend bails on your birthday dinner an hour before.
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He doesn't even bother to text you an apology.
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You feel angry, offended, humiliated.
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How could you care about someone who clearly doesn't give two shits back?
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You feel bad about yourself, and you feel even worse about them.
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And you realize you are not a priority for them.
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That perhaps they aren't even capable of making another human being a priority at all.
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That perhaps they see all relationships as highly transactional, unsentimental, and conditional on getting something of value out of another person.
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You realize that you opted into this dynamic yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously, and
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that your naive romantic notions of a burgeoning bromance were premature at best and completely delusional at worst.
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You realize that this
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so -called friend who has ghosted you on the most important day of the year was never actually a friend at all.
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They were only imagined to be a friend, and that they are likely suffering from the loneliness
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and isolation of their emotionally siloed life far more than you ever will from having one fewer people at a birthday dinner.
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Basically, you realize it's not about you. Or this.
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You give a toast at your brother's wedding, and your voice cracks like you're 13.
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You lose your place, you say um 11 times, and then you sit down certain that the whole room thinks that you're a fucking idiot.
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Your face is flush with embarrassment, and you just want to curl up behind the DJ booth and die.
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Yet research finds that fewer than a quarter of the people notice our most embarrassing moments.
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The truth is, nobody fucking cares.
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They are just happy to be at a wedding.
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Happy the bride and groom are going to have a life together.
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Happy that the dinner is four courses and all paid for.
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Happy that they are going to get to dance to YMCA later
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and hopefully make out with one of the bridesmaids behind the bar.
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Happy that they are going to have an excuse to cancel all of their plans tomorrow when they have a hangover.
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By the time you sit down, they have already forgotten that you even gave a speech.
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Because it's not about you.
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Or you find out your friends planned a weekend trip to Joshua Tree and you weren't in the group chat.
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I mean, this one stings because it does feel like a verdict.
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But group trips get planned by whoever happened to be at brunch that day.
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Someone said, hey, we should go.
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And four people said yes.
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Someone made a chat and nobody stopped to audit the guest list.
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And sure, maybe you weren't loved enough to be thought of in that moment.
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Maybe they don't think of you as their bestest friend in the universe.
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Maybe they don't pine for your presence in every free moment when you're not around.
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Maybe they even find you to be a little bit needy, self -conscious, and exhausting.
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Maybe one of the four guys actually secretly kind of doesn't like you.
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Maybe they've actually known each other much longer than they've known you, and they pine for the days when they were a valiant foursome,
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off on their own together.
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Maybe they couldn't be bothered to invite other people, and they just didn't even think anything of it.
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Basically, maybe it's not about you.
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Or you get fired.
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HR is in the room, there's a box for your stuff, and it feels like the most personal judgment imaginable.
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They looked at you and they decided, this guy's not worth it.
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But in truth, layoffs get decided in spreadsheets by people who have never heard your voice.
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They don't recognize your name, and they certainly don't give a shit if you have a stellar personality or not.
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A VP needed to cut 12 % of costs before the earnings call, and your salary was a sell in column F.
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Congratulations, you get three months severance and a new LinkedIn profile picture.
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But let's say it's even worse.
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Let's say that you actually do fucking suck at your job, and you're fired for performance, and your manager is sick of your shit,
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and his manager is breathing down his neck telling him to run a tighter ship.
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So guess what?
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You're done.
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You're gone.
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And it hurts.
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It hurts to realize that you weren't good enough at that role to make the cut.
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But maybe, maybe it's not just a lost job.
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Maybe it's a market signal.
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Maybe you were not right for that role to begin with.
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Maybe it didn't suit your skill set or your personality or your interests, or you were never really motivated to do a good job anyway.
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Maybe you lacked the enthusiasm necessary to excel.
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Maybe you went into the wrong career to begin with and never stopped to question why.
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Maybe this is actually that opportunity to realize
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that you have never properly assessed what you're great at and what you're not great at.
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Maybe, just maybe, this is the best thing that has ever happened to you professionally.
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And while it is technically about you, it's also not really about you.
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It's about what you're best at and leveraging those skills to create the most enriching life possible.
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So really quick, before we talk more about how it's not about you, let's talk about me.
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Back to the video.
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Then let's say your partner cheats on you.
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Of everything on this list, this one probably feels the most about you.
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You weren't enough.
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You weren't hot enough.
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You weren't fun enough.
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You weren't present enough.
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You weren't loving enough.
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But the infidelity research points the other direction.
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The best predictor of whether someone will cheat is whether they've cheated before.
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A 2017 study that followed people across multiple relationships found
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that the people who cheated in one relationship were three times more likely to cheat in the next one.
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New partner, same result.
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The common denominator is the person doing the cheating, not the person being cheated on.
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Personality research finds the same pattern.
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People who score high in narcissism, low in conscientiousness, and who get uncomfortable when intimacy gets real are the ones who end up straying.
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They brought those traits into the relationship.
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You didn't put them there.
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So once again, it isn't really about you.
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Or is it?
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Because you did contribute to the relationship.
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You chose to be with them.
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You believed them when they told you that they were committed.
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But here's the problem.
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Infidelity isn't meaningfully connected to the quality of the partner or the relationship.
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The psychologist Shirley Glass found that 56 % of men
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and 34 % of women who'd had affairs described their marriages as happy or very happy.
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They weren't fleeing a bad partner.
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Esther Perel, who has spent decades counseling couples after affairs, says that people who stray are usually looking for different versions of themselves,
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not a different partner.
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The version who isn't a tired parent with a mortgage, or the version who feels 25 and full of energy again.
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Sure, maybe there were problems.
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Maybe you've drifted and let yourself go.
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Maybe the sex has gone stale.
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Every long relationship has problems.
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But a problem in a relationship leaves you with a bunch of honest options.
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You can bring it up and work on it.
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You can go to therapy.
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You can leave.
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Cheating is the option that lets them get what they want without having the hard conversations, without doing any of the work.
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Choosing it takes a specific type of cowardice, and that cowardice was in them long before you showed up,
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and there was nothing you could have done to fix it.
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Your partner was running from something inside of themselves, and you happened to live in the house and be with them when they ran.
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Could you have done more?
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Of course you could have.
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Could things have been salvaged?
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Yeah, probably.
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But is it about you?
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No. Honestly, it is about them.
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Now, you might be saying this is getting a little bit ridiculous.
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I mean, Mark, are you saying that nothing is about me?
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Nothing is personal?
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Isn't that just avoiding responsibility or my problems?
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No, actually, you are responsible for everything in your life.
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You are responsible for everything you do.
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And so in that sense, everything that you do is about you.
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But similarly, everything everybody else does is primarily about them.
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It's not personal towards you.
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It's not about you.
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That girl that never got back to you, it's about her.
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It's not about you.
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It's not personal.
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That friend who ditched you, it's about them, not about you.
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It's really not that personal.
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The job you lost, it's about them, not about you.
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The cheating spouse at the end of the day, even if you were a shitty partner, it was about them and the choices that they made.
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They chose to handle it that way.
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It's about them.
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So why do we resist this idea?
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Why do we keep telling ourselves that everything is actually about us?
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I think we do this because we'd have to accept the fact
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that nobody is thinking about us as much as we think they are.
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Because believing that every slight aimed at you is about you requires a certain degree of self -importance
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that I think underneath it all feels kind of good.
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To take everything personally, you're assuming that somebody with their own job, their own family, their own credit card debt
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and weird rash spent part of their day masterminding how to make you feel like shit, I mean, come on.
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They didn't.
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They don't really fucking care.
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See, the twisted fucked up thing about taking everything personally is
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that each grievance makes you the main character of the entire world.
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If your friend skipped your birthday to hurt you, then you mattered enough to be someone worth hurting.
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If a girl broke your heart because you said the wrong thing, then it means that your words matter enough to end a relationship over.
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The truth is, she just wasn't that into you.
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And being wronged feels much better than being irrelevant.
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Psychologists who study people with chronic senses of victimhood find
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that they ruminate on old slights and crave having their pain recognized by others.
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The slight becomes almost like a little trophy that they can show and display to others.
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It's proof that they count, that they matter.
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The psychologist David Elkind calls it the imaginary audience, the conviction that everybody is watching and judging you at all times.
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Kids have it, teenagers especially have it, and they agonize about it, but you're supposed to outgrow it.
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But the truth is, plenty of adults never outgrow it, they just get better at hiding it.
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When one unanswered text ruins your whole weekend, the 12 -year -old who got laughed at in the cafeteria
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is still in there inside of you throwing a fucking pity parade, imagining that everything everyone else does leads back to you.
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No matter how fucked up the situation, the reason for someone's behavior lives inside that person.
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Their fears, their habits, their bad week, their dead phone.
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Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
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had a name for a habit of assuming that you caused events that had little or nothing to do with you.
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He called it personalization, and he classified it as a cognitive distortion.
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Now, the fix that cognitive behavioral therapists use is very simple.
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When something stings, you're supposed to come up with three explanations for it that don't involve you in any way.
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They don't have to be true, they just need to be possible.
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And when part of the mess is yours, you can own that part.
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If you were a crappy partner, great, fix that for your next relationship.
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If you were really bad at your job, then you should probably figure out why.
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Now, all of this can sound a little bleak, like nobody's thinking about you that much,
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or your friends aren't lying awake wondering how you're doing every day,
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or the guests at your brother's wedding forgot your toast as soon as the conga line started.
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But actually, flip it around.
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Because if nobody is watching that closely, if nobody cares, nobody is grading you either.
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Nobody is actually judging.
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You can take the salsa class and be fucking terrible at it.
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You can start a YouTube channel and have nobody watch it.
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You can ask the dumb question in a meeting and actually learn something new.
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You can wear the weird sweater that gets you strange looks on the train.
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Nobody cares.
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Nobody's going to remember.
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The audience that you've been performing for your whole life is mostly empty seats.
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And the few people
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that are sitting there are probably too busy worrying about their own performance to notice the quality of yours.
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So no, it isn't about you.
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Which means you get to go be whoever you want to be.
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So go be it.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה מבוסס על הסרטון “How To Stop Taking Things Personally”. בסרטון הזה יש 250 משפטים ו-2846 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 14:08. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-201 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. 86% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית; כדאי ללמוד את השאר לפני שמתחילים.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 מילים מהסרטון שכדאי ללמוד, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| cheat פועל | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | רימה |
| psychologist שם עצם | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | פְּסִיכוֹלוֹג, פסיכולוגית |
| bother פועל | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | הפריע |
| fewer | /ˈfjuː.ɚ/ | פחות |
| habit שם עצם | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | הֶרְגֵּל, מִנְהָג |
| twist פועל | /twɪst/ | סובב, פיתל |
| conscious שם תואר | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | בהכרה, מודע |
| pine שם עצם | /paɪn/ | אורן |
| toast שם עצם | /toʊst/ | טוסט, קלי |
| trait שם עצם | /tɹeɪt/ | מאפיין, תכונה |
| meanwhile תואר הפועל | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | בינתיים |
| ridiculous שם תואר | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | מְגֻחָךְ |
| explanation שם עצם | /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ | הֶסבֵּר |
| ghost שם עצם | /ɡoʊst/ | רוּחַ רְפָאִים |
| skill שם עצם | /skɪl/ | מְיֻמָּנוּת, כִּשּׁוּרִים |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| sit down פועל | התיישב \ הִתְיַשֵּׁב |
| check out פועל | בדק |
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה |
משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם
משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:
- They weren't thinking about you.
- Basically, it's not about you.
- She doesn't want to see you.
- Could you have done more?
- Isn't that just avoiding responsibility or my problems?
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| הווה מושלם ממושך (Present perfect continuous) have/has been + -ing — פעולה שהתחילה בעבר ועדיין נמשכת עכשיו | have been commenting · you've been performing |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | has already forgotten · has ghosted · have already forgotten |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | were only imagined · weren't loved · be bothered |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | person who waved · someone who clearly · friend who has |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-66 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו you're, weren't, didn't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, booth /buθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, registration /ˌɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/, notion /ˈnoʊʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, behavioral /bɪˈheɪvjəɹəl/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: twist /twɪst/, meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, sequence /ˈsiː.kwəns/, awake /əˈweɪk/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, vast /væst/, romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, crack /kɹæk/, whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, resistant /ɹəˈzɪstənt/, behavioral /bɪˈheɪvjəɹəl/, trait /tɹeɪt/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו cheat, psychologist, bother.
מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?
שאדואינג היא טכניקת למידת שפה מבוססת מדע שפותחה במקור להכשרת מתורגמנים מקצועיים ופופולרית על ידי הפוליגלוט ד"ר אלכסנדר ארגואלס. השיטה פשוטה אך עוצמתית: אתה מקשיב לאודיו באנגלית ילידית וחוזר עליו בקול רם מיד — כמו צל העוקב אחרי הדובר עם עיכוב של 1–2 שניות בלבד. בניגוד להאזנה פסיבית או תרגילי דקדוק, שאדואינג מכריח את המוח והשרירים בפה לעבד ולשחזר דפוסי דיבור אמיתיים בו זמנית. מחקרים מראים שזה משפר משמעותית את דיוק ההגייה, האינטונציה, הקצב, הדיבור המחובר, הבנת השמיעה ושטף הדיבור — מה שהופך אותו לאחת השיטות היעילות ביותר להכנה לIELTS Speaking ולתקשורת באנגלית בעולם האמיתי.