शैडोइंग अभ्यास: A Practical Guide to Taking Control of Your Life | Cate Hall | TED - YouTube के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें
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Five years ago, I was a prisoner in my own life.
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Five years ago, I was a prisoner in my own life.
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I was hopelessly addicted to drugs.
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Every morning I would get up, go buy drugs, and then spend the rest of the day using, barely conscious, until I passed out again at the end of the night.
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I spent months at a time like that.
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I don't have a lot of memories from that time, but one thing I do remember very clearly is this incredible sense of awe and resentment I felt just watching normal people do normal things.
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I would see somebody meeting a friend for lunch, and it would seem inconceivable to me that anybody could be that free.
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They could just decide what to do with an afternoon.
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This talk isn't about addiction per se, but I'm telling you this because I really need you to understand where I'm coming from, how trapped I was, before I tell you that my life is amazing now.
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I'm clean, first and foremost.
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(Applause) I'm married to an incredible man, and we get to do all sorts of fun projects together.
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And I'm CEO of Astera Institute, a multibillion dollar private foundation that's pioneering a new approach to supporting innovative science and technology.
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(Applause) What I do want to talk about today is how I got from point A to point B.
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What changed?
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It's not that I got smarter or that I started trying harder.
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I think what changed was even more fundamental.
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It was developing a sense of personal agency, which I think about as the capacity to both see and act on all of the degrees of freedom we actually have.
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It's about being able to find the hidden doors in the walls of life.
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I want to argue that when it comes to living a satisfying and meaningful life, agency is actually much more important than the things we usually think about as critical to success, like intelligence and hard work, both of which are next to useless if misapplied, and which are becoming less and less important as we increasingly outsource them to machines.
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I saw a quote recently from Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, that I really liked.
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He said, "Intelligence is on tap now, so agency is even more important." For all of the freedom that addiction took from me, I think it actually gave me an unnatural advantage when it came to cultivating agency.
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And that's because while agency has many mothers, one of them is certainly desperation.
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Addicts call this the gift of desperation, actually.
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The willingness to do whatever it takes to change your life, to embarrass yourself by standing up in front of a roomful of strangers and say, “My name is Cate, and I’m a drug addict.” Or to lock yourself away for months.
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Or to take medications that will put you in the ER if you drink.
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By the time I went to rehab, I definitely had the gift of desperation.
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I lost my job, most of my friends.
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For a time, I'd basically lost the ability to walk.
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And so when I left, I walked into a halfway house and a complete mess of a life.
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But in a way, I think that was actually good.
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Because I felt like I had nothing left to lose.
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And that made me fearless and hungry.
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I started saying yes to everything, every connection someone was willing to make in hopes it might lead to something that would help me get back on my feet.
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I remember just going for volume.
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It didn't matter if I could tell how something would benefit me.
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That's how I ended up meeting most of the people I've worked with in the last four years.
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Losing my sense of pride also helped me learn really fast.
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I had brain damage, which meant that I didn't always understand things, and I couldn't pretend that I did either.
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So I got good at saying, "I don't understand what you just said.
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Can you explain it to me?" in situations where before I might have just nodded along.
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Side note: people love to explain things.
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(Laughter) It's a total win win.
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Now I have great news, which is that you don't need to ruin your life and then rebuild it in order to learn to be more agentic.
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I do think it helps to be some kind of desperate, but there's always something to be desperate for.
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I felt that during COVID, as friends and I watched low-income countries struggle with vaccinations because they lacked adequate cold chain storage.
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So we created a company that created a shelf-stable vaccine, and we let that desperation drive us into clinical trials in under six months, faster than any start-up in history.
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I felt another kind of desperation early on in my marriage, when it seemed like there was an invisible wall between the two of us.
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So in desperation, I learned how to resolve the emotional barriers that made it difficult for me to connect with people.
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I don't think agency is innate.
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But I do think most people learn it through sheer luck.
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If it's not the luck of desperation, then maybe it's just the luck of seeing somebody highly agentic operating up close.
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I also think, though, that it can be learned systematically and by many more people.
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I want to share some of the tactics I've learned for becoming more agentic.
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First, assume everything is learnable.
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I gave the example of learning to connect with my husband, but I could have just as easily spoken from personal experience about learning to be more optimistic or curious.
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I think most traits that people treat as fixed are actually quite learnable.
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If you both believe that they are and put the same kind of effort into learning them that you would anything else.
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Second, court rejection.
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We spend our lives carefully avoiding it, but if you're only aiming for things you get you're doing yourself a disservice.
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In fact, sometimes you have to aim for things that feel unreasonable to make sure your instinct about what's reasonable is right.
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Last time I was applying for a job, I told a couple people: "I'm thinking about starting an organization much like your own.
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Can I run yours instead?" (Laughter) A little delusional, maybe.
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But the thing is, sometimes delusional works.
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Third, seek real feedback.
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Pretty much every one of us has something holding us back that we're completely blind to and that's obvious to other people.
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Don't you want to know what that is?
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The single best way to find out is to give people a way to tell you anonymously.
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I know that might sound scary, it was to me at first, but it can also be exhilarating.
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I have an anonymous feedback box linked to my Twitter profile, and it has honestly been life-changing, not just in terms of the specific feedback I've gotten, but in knowing that I'm not trying to hide things from myself anymore.
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If I could go back in time five years and talk to the person that I was then and tell her that I would one day experience that kind of freedom, to not have to hide things, to do whatever I feel like with my afternoons, to be basically happy.
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I would not have believed it.
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But that is the power of personal agency.
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No matter how stuck you are, if you can learn to locate the doors hidden within you, you can unlock inconceivable kinds of freedom.
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Thank you. (Applause)
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इस वीडियो में, Cate Hall अपने जीवन के अनुभव को साझा करती हैं, जहां उन्होंने नशे की लत से संघर्ष किया और अंततः एक सफल जीवन की ओर बढ़ीं। इस पाठ में, आप यह जानेंगे कि किस प्रकार व्यक्तिगत एजेंसी (agency) को विकसित किया जा सकता है और कैसे यह आपके जीवन में स्वतंत्रता और संतोष ला सकता है। साथ ही, आप इससे संबंधित महत्वपूर्ण शब्दावली का अभ्यास करेंगे, जो अंग्रेजी बोलने का अभ्यास (shadowspeak) करते समय आपकी मदद करेगा।
मुख्य शब्दावली और वाक्यांश
- एजेंसी (Agency): किसी भी स्थिति में अपने विकल्पों को देखने और उन्हें स्वीकार करने की क्षमता।
- उम्मीद (Hope): सकारात्मक भविष्य की आशा।
- नशे की लत (Addiction): किसी चीज पर अत्यधिक निर्भरता।
- विपरीत (Desperation): गंभीर स्थिति में होने की भावना, जो परिवर्तन के लिए प्रेरित करती है।
- कनेक्शन (Connection): लोगों के बीच का संबंध या बंधन।
- व्याकुलता (Distraction): ध्यान भटकाने वाली चीज़ें।
- स्वीकार करना (Acceptance): किसी स्थिति या व्यक्ति को बिना किसी पूर्वाग्रह के मान लेना।
- शोध (Research): किसी विषय पर गहन जानकारी इकट्ठा करना।
अभ्यास के सुझाव
इस वीडियो की गति और टोन को ध्यान में रखते हुए, shadowspeak करने के लिए निम्नलिखित सुझावों का पालन करें:
- वीडियो को बार-बार सुनें और उन हिस्सों को दोहराएं जहाँ Cate अपने अनुभव साझा कर रही हैं। उनकी आवाज़ और एक्सप्रेशन का अनुकरण करें।
- वीडियो को शुरुआती गति पर शुरू करें, फिर धीरे-धीरे गति बढ़ाएँ जब आप आत्मविश्वास महसूस करें।
- प्रत्येक महत्वपूर्ण वाक्यांश को जुबानी दोहराएं। इसके लिए अपने साथ एक साथी रख सकते हैं ताकि वो भी आपकी सहायता कर सके।
- कोशिश करें कि वीडियो के कठिन शब्दों को सही उच्चारण के साथ कहें। उन शब्दों पर फोकस करें जो आप पसंद करते हैं, जैसे "एजेंसी" और "नशे की लत"।
- जब आप किसी भावना या संकट का सामना कर रहे होते हैं, אז उस दौर की समानता को वीडियो में ढूंढें और उससे संबंधित अनुभव साझा करें।
इन अभ्यासों से, आप यूट्यूब से अंग्रेजी सीखें के माध्यम से अपने अंग्रेजी बोलने के कौशल में सुधार कर सकेंगे और अपने जीवन में व्यक्तिगत एजेंसी को विकसित करने की दिशा में बढ़ सकेंगे।
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शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।
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