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If your life were a movie, what would the audience be screaming at the screen for you to do?
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It is summer 29th, 2025, and I'm currently on the border of Italy and France snowboarding by myself.
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It is day two in Thailand.
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Going to El Salvador, guys.
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This year, I didn't set a single New Year's resolution.
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I'm living by one mindset instead, and it's changing everything.
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I want to do everything, so I do nothing.
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The beginning of 2025 felt like a limbo.
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I'd just moved to New York City, I'd just graduated college, life was supposed to just be starting, but I felt stuck.
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I'd scroll on Instagram, people traveling, falling in love, living boldly, and I'd just be sitting on my couch, scrolling.
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It felt like there was an immovable wall between my life and the life that I wanted.
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Every possibility felt loud, every choice felt heavy, every path I didn't take felt like a loss.
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So I stayed still.
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I think the biggest thing I've always wanted to do was to travel, but I was so scared to do it alone.
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I told myself I would wait until I had more friends to do it, or until I made more money, or until I was just older and actually a grown-up.
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In the Unabridged Journal of Sylvia Plath, Plath writes, I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life,
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and I am horribly limited.
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This line perfectly describes your 20s.
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Somehow in a world overflowing with possibility, more people than ever feel stuck.
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So every January, we try to fix that feeling with a list.
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I am going to be happy this year.
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I am going to make myself happy.
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Lose the weight, make the money, get disciplined, be happier.
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I've rich in those lists, a lot of them, every single year.
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And somehow they always fall apart i feel like for
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so long i made my new year's resolutions these like very
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outcome based goals i want a six pack i want to
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make this much money i want 500 000 followers it was
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all about what i wanted my life to turn out
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but not how i wanted to do it it was always outcome based
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but not process based
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and i feel like the outcome based goals like every time i would either not hit hit the goal
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and feel so shit about myself.
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I would hit the goal and be like, now what?
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Because there's a problem with New Year's resolutions.
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They don't change how you see yourself.
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They don't change how you move through everyday life.
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A resolution assumes that if you want something badly enough, then you'll just become the type of person that can sustain it.
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But wanting is not the same thing as knowing how to act.
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Most resolutions fail because they rely on motivation and motivation is fragile.
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It spikes in January and disappears the moment life becomes inconvenient.
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They also collapse under perfectionism.
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You miss one workout, one good meal, one day of journaling, and suddenly it just feels useless anymore, so you just abandon it completely.
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So this year, I didn't make resolutions in the traditional sense.
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I made a mindset shift.
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I saw this tweet online.
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There must be an opposite of suicide, where someone suddenly and radically decides to start living and rescues their own life from meaninglessness.
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I realized that I can just do things.
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I traveled across three countries in six days.
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I want to introduce this concept of having high agency.
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Agency is a capacity to act.
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High agency is a belief that your life is something you actively shape, not something you wait to happen to you.
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Here's a thought experiment.
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You wake up in a third world jail cell.
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You're allowed one phone call.
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Who do you call?
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This person isn't necessarily the smartest or the richest or the most powerful.
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They're the person who would just figure it out.
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I'm standing on the border of Italy and France.
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This is France.
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This is Italy.
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They believe there's always a move to make.
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That's high agency.
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People with high agency believe in this concept.
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The world doesn't happen to you.
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You happen to the world.
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They don't view the future as a static entity.
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They view it something to be shaped by human action.
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It's January 1st, 2026.
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Last night, I impulsively decided to rebook my flight and fly to Thailand today.
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High agency people aren't fearless, aren't lucky, aren't the smartest.
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They're not special.
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They just move.
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Even when things are unclear, even when they're scared, even when the outcome isn't guaranteed.
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Once I understood that, my days changed.
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Instead of asking, what's the right decision?
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I started asking, what's a decision?
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Because action creates information, stillness does not.
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So leave the apartment, book the trip, send the message start the thing i made it to milan i recently watched at poet society
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and it reminded me of carpe diem seize the day in
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2026 i want to seize every single day live every single
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day to the max i want to tell you about something
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else that's recently impacted my thinking there's something called the deferred life hypothesis it's just believed
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that your real life starts later after the degree after the
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move after you lose the weight after you feel more confident after You treat your current life like a waiting room, a prelude, a rehearsal.
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You tell yourself that you're being practical, responsible, even patient.
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But the truth is you're just postponing your real life.
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Because later never really shows up.
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It is day two in Thailand and we just got our food.
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The goalposts move.
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There's always another milestone, another reason to wait.
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And one day you realize that you spent years preparing for a life you never actually started living.
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I feel like for so long I felt like a victim of my circumstance.
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I was lonely because I just didn't have that many friends.
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I felt unfulfilled about my job because that's just what life is and I should just deal with that.
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But I think having high agency is realizing just how much control that you have over your mind, your mindset, and your own happiness.
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I think having that mindset of the fact that you can literally just do anything
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is really empowering and really inspires me to just move every single day
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and Not just sit on my phone and scroll and feel stuck
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because the world is out there Even
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if you're stuck at a job You don't like even
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if you're in a bad relationship even if you still can't move out your hometown
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There's still so many ways to improve your life and to just do things
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There is a distinct difference between living and existing
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and I feel like after I graduated college I was just on autopilot for an entire year
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and every single day I would just wake up feeling
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so bad for myself and I just felt like something was missing But nothing was missing.
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The only thing missing was my mindset, was gratitude.
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The only difference between the people that I saw on Instagram and myself was just that they did things.
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So stop waiting for life to start.
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Treat every day like it already has because it has.
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Carpe diem.
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Seize the day.
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I feel like it's so easy to brush off these sayings.
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It's just cliche Pinterest quotes but I think when you really internalize it, you realize just how much power you have over your everyday, over your happiness, over your life.
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Your life is truly what you make of it and how you want to shape it.
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It's not the pursuit of happiness, but more the happiness of pursuit.
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So are you waiting for your life or are you living it?
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “The Mindset that Changed My Life”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: felt, agency, resolution, mindset. Questo video contiene 118 frasi e 1324 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:28. Chi parla va veloce, circa 205 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| mindset sostantivo | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | mentalità, modo di pensare |
| seize verbo | /ˈsiːz/ | prendere, afferrare |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | spaventare, impaurire |
| pursuit sostantivo | /pɝˈsut/ | ricerca, perseguimento |
| autopilot sostantivo | /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/ | pilota automatico, autopilota |
| boldly avverbio | /ˈboʊldli/ | arditamente, coraggiosamente |
| cliché sostantivo | /kliˈʃeɪ/ | cliché, luogo comune |
| horribly avverbio | /ˈhɔɹəbli/ | orribilmente |
| impulsively avverbio | /ɪmˈpʌlsɪvli/ | impulsivamente |
| inconvenient aggettivo | /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/ | sconveniente |
| overflow verbo | /ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/ | traboccare, ridondare |
| perfectionism sostantivo | /pɚˈfɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/ | perfezionismo |
| postpone verbo | /pəʊstˈpəʊn/ | rimandare |
| prelude sostantivo | /ˈpɹɛljuːd/ | preludio |
| snowboard sostantivo | /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/ | snowboard, tavola da neve |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| fall apart verbo | cadere a pezzi | |
| grow up verbo | crescere | |
| turn out verbo | risultare | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | svegliarsi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- I would hit the goal and be like, now what?
- They don't change how you see yourself.
- They don't change how you move through everyday life.
- You're allowed one phone call.
- I started asking, what's a decision?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be shaped · isn't guaranteed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | person that can · person who would |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 33 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, didn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: cliché /kliˈʃeɪ/, perfectionism /pɚˈfɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, shade /ʃeɪd/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: autopilot /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/, immovable /ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l/, impulsively /ɪmˈpʌlsɪvli/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, internalize /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: horribly /ˈhɔɹəbli/, rehearsal /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, hometown /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: mindset /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/, seize /ˈsiːz/, pursuit /pɝˈsut/, autopilot /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: radically /ˈɹædɪkli/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, fragile /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, abandon /əˈbæn.dən/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come mindset, seize, scare.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.