Pratica di Shadowing: Why being bored is a good thing - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Boredom.
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A state of being that's gotten a pretty bad rap over the years.
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But as I'm continuously trying to navigate this super connected world we're now living in, the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained,
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but the more I think that being bored isn't such a bad thing.
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In fact, from a creative standpoint, it might actually be a really good thing.
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Just hear me out.
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I feel like we live in a very overstimulated world.
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And lately it feels like a little much.
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Changes to Instagram, a growing trend in the US.
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We're always being bombarded with information.
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From social media platforms, keeping up with the trends, what should we make and who should we watch.
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It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling.
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Jumping from one device to another and often not taking breaks for extended periods of time.
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to be entertained could turn into a life that's distracted.
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I sense that most people have encountered this at some point or another but lately just everything has been feeling like noise.
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Everything online is starting to look like a copy of one another
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and as someone who's caught between trying to make sense of it
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while also barely keeping up with the pace of the world, it can get a little...
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overwhelming.
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and I think it's affecting my creativity.
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you A while in my search for an antidote, there was one idea I became increasingly curious about.
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It started when I read Austin Kleon's book, "Steal Like an Artist." In the book, he says, "Take time to be bored.
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Creative people need time to just sit around
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and do nothing." I want to see what happens when I embrace this idea of boredom over the next couple of days.
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If there is any difference at all in the creativity, in my ideas.
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Did I need a detox?
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Did I not?
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Did I hate it?
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Was it useless?
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Just for an hour or two each day, how hard can that be?
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So it's day one and I went a good, I was doing good.
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I was doing good for the first two minutes, and then I just reached for my phone.
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out of habit.
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I'm literally purposely doing this experiment.
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The habit of just like picking up and checking our phones when we're literally doing nothing.
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crazy.
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So yeah, if that's a any indication how things are going.
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You see, an interesting thing happens when you're in a less stimulated state.
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Our minds are able to wander, to get creative with problem -solving, and let one storm in ideas find the space to plant roots and grow.
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Just like when we get our best ideas in the shower, or think of new characters for our book on our commute, our body goes on autopilot,
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and our minds go somewhere else.
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Being bored literally has to be laying around doing nothing.
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I think that it counts as washing the dishes and folding your laundry, going for a walk, normal mundane everyday things,
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just without reaching for your phone to help pass the time.
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It's interesting that boredom is not typically something that's pursued, but many of the world's problems are because there is just too much of everything.
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content.
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at least in the beginning.
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Okay, so I have been really enjoying this experiment so far.
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It's only been three days, but I feel like there is
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something about needing to fill the silence and also being alone with your thoughts it's almost It can be uncomfortable.
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It has just been really nice to not be living from screen to screen all the time
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and instead feeling like I'm living in the real world.
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It's also been really nice to just have the space to think, just allowing you to have that designated time.
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I know that sounds so weird because creativity is such an organic thing, but we live in such a busy world.
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Our schedules are often filled up from like hour to hour.
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This is also feeling a lot like a dopamine detox.
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Mainly because I'm doing this like every single day.
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Now that I'm doing this experiment, I'm realizing like how much it actually plays into my daily life.
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I think that the more society becomes obsessed with productivity, the more we need to search for small pockets of time to be bored.
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But it's not just about doing nothing, but I find it's more so choosing to be observant of the world around you every now and then.
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Being left to my thoughts without media and posts telling me how to feel.
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every time I need to fill the silence.
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but instead embracing it.
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Sometimes it feels like boredom can be one of the most undesirable states you can be in.
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We go so much out of our way to occupy our time with other work or projects, and maybe there are some things we can learn from it.
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Alright, so I've been doing this for about a week now.
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It got easier as the days went on.
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I started to embrace it more.
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It's been really interesting to see new ideas and also old ideas.
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Just ponderings that randomly have come up one
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or two hours every afternoon may not seem like a lot
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but I think that there's a real compound effect there to just be intentional with
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that time to embrace this boredom and this mundaneness and see what comes up from that.
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We often already have everything we need to think up new ideas or find inspiration around us.
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But I think it's a matter of really creating the time to facilitate that.
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Not too much and not too little of it, but just enough that when we do to our creative work we feel ready to.
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So this isn't really a solution or a groundbreaking discovery, but perhaps an alternate perspective on nurturing our creativity.
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As Steve Jobs once said, boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything.
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I've been on hold on baby with you.
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Lo scenario: il noioso come fonte di creatività

Il video ci porta in un mondo iperconnesso, dove la costante stimolazione da social media e notizie ci lascia drained (esauriti) e con poca creatività. L'autore decide di sperimentare la noia, abbandonando per un po' lo smartphone, per scoprire se questo stato "negativo" può invece diventare un antidoto. È un scenario reale che molti di noi vivono: come gestire la sovraccarica informativa e ritrovare le proprie idee? Questa conversazione è perfetta per la pratica di conversazione in inglese, perché tratta un argomento attuale e usa un linguaggio colloquiale ricco di espressioni utili.

Frasi e collocazioni da memorizzare

  • Get a bad rap: "Avere una brutta reputazione". Esempio: "La noia ha avuto una brutta reputazione per anni".
  • Overstimulated world: "Mondo iperstimolato". Come dice l'autore: "Viviamo in un mondo iperstimolato, dove siamo bombardati da informazioni".
  • Detox: "Detossicazione". Nel contesto: "Ho bisogno di una detossicazione dallo smartphone per ricuperare la creatività".
  • Mind wanders: "La mente vaga". Quando siamo in silenzio, "la mente vaga e trova soluzioni creative".
  • Lay around doing nothing: "Stare a letto a non fare niente". La noia non è solo questo, ma anche fare cose banali senza lo smartphone.

La tua sfida al shadowing: ripeti e imita

Per migliorare la tua pronuncia e la fluidità, usa la tecnica del shadowing in inglese. Segui questi passaggi: 1) Ascolta un frammento del video (20-30 secondi) dove l'autore parla della sua esperienza con la noia. 2) Ripeti immediatamente dopo, imitando l'intonazione e il ritmo. 3) Focus su espressioni come "it can get a little overwhelming" o "the habit of picking up the phone" per capire come le parole si connettono. Un shadowing site o un app per il shadow speech può aiutarti a registrare te stesso e confrontarti con l'originale. Ricorda: il shadowspeaks non è solo ripetere, ma "diventare" la voce dell'autore per capire il suo tono e le sue emozioni. Prova per 5 minuti al giorno e noterai la differenza nella tua confidenza!

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corsohas been feeling · I've been doing
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas not only left · have encountered · have been
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabeing bombarded · be entertained · are often filled

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.

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