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20 years ago, people had hobbies.
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20 years ago, people had hobbies.
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Now they have a screen.
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The average person now spends 70 hours a week staring at a screen.
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That's not just wasting time, it's slowly destroying our brain.
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I went from a homeless teen to an MIT grad to building and advising companies worth billions.
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Somewhere in that journey, I almost lost every hobby I ever loved.
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But I also saw a pattern.
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The most successful people fiercely protect their seemingly useless hobbies.
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Because that's their best defense against brain rot.
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In this video, I'll show you why hobbies matter more than ever, how they retrain your brain for success and fulfillment,
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and share a four-part framework for choosing hobbies that can help you change your life and your career.
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The first thing we need to understand is that brain rot isn't what you think it is.
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Our brains are under a two-stage attack.
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Research from Nielsen reported that Americans spend 70 hours a week consuming media across different screens.
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That's about 10 hours a day.
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Our screens have become our full-time employers and they pay us in brain rot.
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We're all facing the same dangerous challenge and that's
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because the social media we consume is programmed to give you rapid dopamine hits.
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Now there are three side effects of social media.
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First, our brain starts craving more of those hits.
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So we start needing more hits for the same mental rewards.
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Second side effect, we start focusing more on sharing versus caring.
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You go to any concert nowadays or watch the sunset on a beach
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and you'll see people around you watching it through their phones.
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We're not enjoying our experiences, we're just camera operators for our followers.
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And this leads to the most depressing third side effect, anhedonia.
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It's a clinical term about our inability to feel pleasure from normal things.
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But that is only the first stage attack.
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There is an equally alarming second stage attack happening, AI.
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Social media changes our attention.
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AI changes our agency.
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Microsoft just studied over 300 professionals and found something kind of terrifying.
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When people are overconfident in AI, they basically turn off their own brains.
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They stop double checking their work and their critical thinking just shuts down.
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It's like you're sending someone else to the gym and then wondering why your own health isn't improving.
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AI doesn't outsource your tasks, it outsources your mind, your agency.
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And in this world of hyper-stimulated junk food, Hobbies are the nutritional meal.
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So why are your hobbies so important to your brain?
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I recently recorded a meeting with my team and I was listening to the playback and I was just horrified.
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My thoughts were jumping around mid-sentence, rambling, I had no coherence.
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I realized that my brain had become a mirror of my TikTok feed, totally fragmented.
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Sitting there with my headphone on, I literally yelled at myself and said, come on, stop babbling, get to the actual question.
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That was a wake-up call.
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If you don't keep training for focus, you're gonna lose it.
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Your brain doesn't adapt or grow when you're comfortable.
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It adapts when reality surprises you.
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No surprise, no change.
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So when you're scrolling your feed like a zombie or let AI write your essay or your strategy document, there is no struggle.
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There is no surprise.
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There is no discovery, no upgrade.
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I call it deepfake mastery.
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It looks great, but it's not real.
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You know, in medicine, if you put an arm in a cast for six months, the muscle will atrophy.
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It'll literally degenerate.
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It'll eat itself.
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And then when the cast comes off, you're going to need rehab to even open your wrists.
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Hobbies are your rehab.
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When you're cooking, you'll make a mess.
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You'll play an instrument.
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You'll miss a note.
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A hobby allows you to struggle, to be surprised.
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It forces your brain to upgrade.
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Now, if you're ambitious and you're successful or you're trying to be successful, you're probably going to feel guilty about your time spent on hobbies.
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Our 24-7 culture tells us that hobbies are selfish,
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that they're extra, that time you spend working on yourself is time stolen from work or from the people who need you.
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Nothing could be further than the truth.
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And the proof comes from an unlikely place.
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Researchers at Michigan State spent 20 years studying 773 Nobel Prize winners.
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What they found was, well, surprising.
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Nobel Prize winners had three times more serious hobbies than their peers,
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and they were nine times more likely to have formal training in crafts or fine arts or music.
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For the world's most capable minds, hobbies weren't a guilty break from their work.
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it fueled their work.
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But then the question is, how do you pick the right hobbies?
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For that, you need a framework.
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And we're going to use the vibe framework.
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Every thriving, high-performing individual needs these four pillars.
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Vitality.
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Are you running on empty?
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Then pick a hobby that gets your heart rate up.
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Dance class, Pilates, tracking, martial arts, climbing, pickleball, all fit here.
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Are you easily bored?
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Then pick a hobby that forces you to be a beginner again.
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Learn a new language, play chess, take a course, belonging.
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Do you have a real community or just a list of contacts?
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Try a hobby that weaves you into a tribe, a running club or a band, a nonprofit, a local book club,
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coaching little kids, and finally the fourth pillar, expression.
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Do you consume more than create?
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Then try a hobby that pulls something from inside of you and puts it out into the world.
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Photography, painting, playing an instrument, pottery, writing, cooking, this one can be a long list.
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So whether your guilt is, I should be working all the time, or I should be taking care of someone else, this is your answer.
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Work on yourself first.
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And one tiny observation about this, your hobbies don't have to fit neatly into one of those four quadrants.
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Painting, for example, can be an inquiry and an expression.
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For me, when I used to play in the band, it used to hit all four quadrants for me simultaneously.
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So what's the action item?
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You don't have to overthink it.
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Pick one or two hobbies that you love, apply the framework to see where they fit, if they fit, and then follow the rule of three.
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Do it three times and see if you want to commit to it.
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If it's not a good fit, pick something else.
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Make sure you pick a hobby you'll actually do with full attention because you don't pick a hobby just to escape.
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You choose it to come back to yourself.
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Now, what's the best way to keep a hobby going?
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Focus on play, not on performance.
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This is the fastest way to kill a hobby.
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Hobbies are your rehab.
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Don't turn rehab into a performance review.
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The moment your hobby becomes a scoreboard, it becomes a grind that won't restore you.
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The fastest way to kill a hobby is to post about it.
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The second you bring an audience into the room, you stop playing for yourself and you start performing for them.
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You're literally outsourcing your joy to the algorithm.
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You know, it's like going to Paris
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and spending the whole time taking a selfie with the portrait of Mona Lisa
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so you can show the world you were there and you're still trapped behind the same screen.
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So the key question I think is who this hobby is for.
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If it is for you, you'll build.
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If it is for them, you'll judge.
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If your hobby feels like a performance review, then you've lost the plot.
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So how do you actually protect the play?
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Not by fighting the urge to go back to doom scrolling.
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Social media is like an endless river.
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You don't stop a river by standing in front of it.
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You cut a new channel and let the water find its way.
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Here's how you build that channel for yourself.
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When you're enjoying your hobby, don't shoot it and don't post it.
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Focus on minutes, not on metrics.
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Start with cheap gear.
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Don't overspend.
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And finally, after each session, just ask one question.
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Did I feel more alive or more judged?
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Your hobby is where you go to be a messy, imperfect human in a world that demands you to be polished and optimized machine.
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So yes, hobbies is how you come back to yourself
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and it's supposed to restore you not rank you there's no win
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or lose only the play
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and here's what we learn from the happiest people in the world in the world happiness report in 2025
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Finland ranked number one for the eighth time in a row and US fell to number 23, its lowest ever.
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Now, Finland is no utopia.
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It endures some of the longest, toughest, bleakest winters anywhere in the world.
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But their environment is quietly built to reduce stress and increase real world experiences.
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First, they're surrounded by nature and it's a culture of walking and biking and hiking.
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Vitality?
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Check.
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Second, university education is publicly supported and affordable.
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Inquiry?
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Check.
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And in that society, there is higher trust, stronger sense of community, lower inequality, belonging?
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Check.
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And culturally, they care less about constant competition or signaling higher status and success.
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They create because they want to.
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Expression?
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Check.
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So you see, Finland has actually built their culture around the VIBE framework.
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And the people there are the happiest on earth.
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The lesson is that the life you build outside of work should not be seen as a distraction.
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It's the most irreplaceable gift you can give yourself and to everyone around you.
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You know, machines and AI can replicate your output, but they can never replicate the life that produced it.
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I've been thinking about this, that the more machines become like humans, the less will have to be like machines.
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And hobbies connect you to your inner human being.
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There is a parable that I love.
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A traveler sees three stonemasons working very hard in the sweltering heap and they're cutting blocks of stones.
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So he's wondering, he asks them what they're doing the first one says sir
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can't you see i'm cutting stones the traveler turns to the
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second one the second one says well i am earning a wage to provide for my family
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but the third one stands up tall looks up
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and says i'm building a cathedral same work different meaning your hobbies don't owe you productivity or followers or wages.
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They owe you joy.
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They bring meaning to your moments because your life is not just a pile of rocks stacked higher and higher.
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It is a cathedral.
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If you like this video, watch this one next.
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It's about how to stay calm no matter what's happening around you.
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Thank you and I love you.
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Informazioni su questa lezione
In questa lezione, gli studenti approfondiranno l'importanza degli hobby e come questi possano influenzare positivamente la salute mentale e il successo professionale. Attraverso l'analisi di un video che mette in luce i pericoli del consumo eccessivo di media digitali, impareremo a riconoscere le abitudini ottimali che aiutano a sviluppare la nostra capacità di attenzione e concentrazione. Gli studenti praticheranno sia la comprensione orale sia le tecniche di shadowing per migliorare la loro capacità di conversazione in inglese.
Vocabolario e frasi chiave
- Brain rot: un termine che descrive il deterioramento delle capacità cognitive a causa del consumo eccessivo di media.
- Hobbies: attività che si praticano nel tempo libero e che portano soddisfazione.
- Dopamine hits: picchi di dopamina indotti da attività stimolanti, come l'uso dei social media.
- Anhedonia: l'incapacità di provare piacere in attività che prima erano gratificanti.
- Critical thinking: la capacità di analizzare e valutare informazioni in modo razionale.
- Agency: il controllo su come e cosa pensiamo o facciamo.
- Focus: concentrazione su un compito o una situazione.
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