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What if your brain was never built to keep you happy?
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What if all the worrying, the overthinking, the quiet feeling that something is off isn't a flaw in you at all, but a system doing exactly the job it was designed to do?
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Because your brain really has only one main goal, keep you alive.
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Not calm, not content, not at peace, alive.
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And the moment you understand this, a lot of your life suddenly starts to make sense.
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Why does your mind drag up an embarrassing memory from years ago?
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Why does a small problem feel enormous at midnight?
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Why can one ignored message quietly ruin your whole afternoon?
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Why even in a good moment does part of you stay on edge?
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That's not weakness, that's old wiring.
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A long time ago, staying alive meant expecting danger.
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The humans who stayed alert lived longer.
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The ones who assumed everything was fine often didn't.
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So the brain slowly learned to scan constantly for threats, for mistakes, for rejection, for anything that might hurt.
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The problem is, your brain still runs that same ancient system today, in a world nothing like the one it was built for.
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Now the dangers aren't tigers, they're social, emotional, mental.
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A text goes unanswered and your brain reads it as rejection.
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You slip up once and it treats it like failure.
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Someone your age does better and it whispers that you're falling behind.
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brain, completely different world.
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And because this all runs on autopilot, most people spend years quietly believing something is broken in them.
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But nothing is broken, your brain is simply repeating whatever it is practiced the most.
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And that's exactly where everything can change.
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Because your brain isn't fixed, it rewires itself all the time, based on what you keep thinking, keep feeling, and keep doing.
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Your daily habits aren't just routine, they're instructions, teaching your brain what to make stronger.
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Keep repeating stress and comparison, and your brain gets better at stress and comparison.
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But keep practicing calm and focus, and it starts building those paths instead.
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Which means something powerful.
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You don't have to become a whole new person to feel better.
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You just have to train your brain differently.
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So here are 10 habits that slowly pull your brain out of survival mode, toward calm, clarity, and a little more peace.
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Not overnight, but for real.
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Habit 1.
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Catch the spiral early.
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Most people don't notice how automatic their thoughts are.
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One small trigger and the mind takes off, imagining the worst, replaying old conversations, building problems that don't even exist yet.
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And the longer that loop runs, the stronger it gets.
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The goal isn't to stop negative thoughts forever, that's impossible.
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It's to interrupt them before they take over.
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The second you catch yourself spiraling, pause.
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Feel your feet on the floor.
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Notice a sound in the room.
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Anything real.
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Because wherever your attention goes again and again, your brain grows.
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Every time you interrupt the spiral, the old path gets a little weaker.
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Habit 2.
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Hold on to good moments longer.
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Here's something strange about your brain.
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Bad moments stick on their own.
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Good ones slip away.
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You could get 10 kind words and one criticism, and guess which one follows you all day?
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The criticism.
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Because a survival brain cares about problems first.
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So if you want to feel happier, you can't just wait for better days.
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You have to teach your brain to actually absorb them.
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When something good happens—a quiet morning, a real laugh, finishing something hard—don't rush past it.
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Stay in it for a few extra seconds.
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Feel it fully.
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The longer you hold a good moment, the deeper your brain stores it.
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And quickly, if you're still watching, it means part of you already knows these patterns are real.
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Most people hear something like this and scroll away in seconds, but you're still here.
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So if this is helping, subscribe.
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Not just for something to watch, but because your brain changes through repetition, and one honest reminder each week can slowly pull you out of survival mode.
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Habit 3.
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Lower the noise.
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Your brain was never built to handle endless input.
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Yet most people wake up and instantly flood it.
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Notifications, videos, opinions, arguments, scrolling.
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No silence, no stillness.
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And the mind gets exhausted without knowing why.
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Sometimes your anxiety isn't coming from your life, it's coming from too much noise.
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So build tiny pockets of quiet.
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Walk without headphones.
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Sit for a minute without your phone.
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Eat one meal with no screen.
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At first it feels strange because your brain is used to constant stimulation.
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But slowly, quiet starts to feel like relief instead of emptiness.
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Step four, move every day.
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Your brain and body aren't separate, they're in constant conversation.
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And movement shifts your mental state faster than you'd expect.
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Sit still all day and stress stays locked inside you.
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Move and your nervous system reads it as safety.
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You don't need hard workouts, a walk, a stretch, dancing in your room.
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The point isn't fitness, it's motion because motion changes emotion.
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And some thoughts simply disappear the moment your body starts to move.
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Habit five, stop feeling guilty for resting.
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A lot of people rest their body but never their mind.
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Even while relaxing, they feel behind, unproductive, guilty.
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So the nervous system never fully switches off.
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But your brain can't heal under constant pressure.
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Rest isn't laziness.
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Rest is repair.
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Sleep steadies your emotions.
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Brakes sharpen your focus.
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Stillness clears your head.
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Even machines overheat without a pause.
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Yet somehow we expect ourselves to run without stopping.
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Habit 6.
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Bring back play.
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This might be the most ignored habit of all.
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Kids play naturally.
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Adults turn everything into a task.
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Even hobbies get measured and monetized until life starts feeling heavy because everything carries pressure.
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But play changes the brain completely.
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Focus without stress.
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Presence without force.
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Joy with nothing to prove.
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So ask yourself, what did you genuinely enjoy before life got so serious?
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Drawing, music, a sport, building something, laughing with friends?
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Bring a little of it back, not to improve, just because your brain needs to feel alive.
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Habit 7.
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Watch what you repeat to yourself.
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Your brain listens to repetition, so the words you say inside your head matter more than you think.
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I'm behind.
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I always mess up.
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I'm not enough.
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Say something enough times and your brain starts treating it as fact.
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So notice your self-talk, not fake positivity, just honesty.
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Instead of, I always fail, try, I'm still learning.
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Instead of, nothing works, try, this is hard right now.
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Small shifts in language slowly become big shifts in how you feel.
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Because thoughts turn into beliefs and beliefs turn into who you think you are.
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Habit 8.
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Guard your attention.
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Your attention is your life.
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Whatever keeps grabbing it shapes how you feel.
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And most people give it away all day without noticing, letting feeds decide what they think about, fear, and compare themselves to.
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So protect your mind.
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Not everything deserves access to it.
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Some content drains you.
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Some people drain you.
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Notice how you feel after what you take in because your brain slowly becomes whatever it keeps absorbing.
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Habit 9.
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Practice being here.
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Most suffering lives in two places, the past and the future.
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Regret, worry, what ifs.
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Meanwhile, the present moment is usually far softer than the mind makes it seem.
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But the brain doesn't stay here on its own, so presence becomes a skill.
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You build it in tiny ways, feeling the water while you wash your hands, actually tasting your food, noticing the sky,
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really listening when someone talks.
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Small things, but they quietly teach your brain that life is happening now, not inside some imagined future.
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Habit 10, repeat the small things.
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This is where most people give up.
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They want change instantly.
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One perfect routine, one motivating week.
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But the brain doesn't change through intensity, it changes through repetition.
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A few calm breaths each morning, a short daily walk, 10 minutes away from your phone, one spiral you interrupted.
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Small on their own, but repeated daily, they slowly reshape your mind.
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And here's the part nobody mentions.
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Real change feels slow while it's happening.
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Rewiring your brain isn't dramatic.
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It's quiet.
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You don't wake up one day as a new person.
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Instead, one day you notice you bounce back from stress faster.
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You overthought a little less.
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You enjoyed a simple moment more.
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You felt calm without forcing it.
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Not because life became perfect, but because your brain stopped fighting you the same way.
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And maybe that's the real goal.
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Not chasing happiness every second, but building a brain that lets happiness exist on its own.
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Because the brain you have today isn't your final version.
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It's just the one your habits have built so far.
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And what you choose to repeat next decides what it becomes.
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So start small.
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One interrupted thought.
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One good moment felt fully.
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One walk.
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One minute of quiet.
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Because small things, repeated often, quietly change everything.
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If this shifted how you see your own mind, even a little, don't just scroll away and forget it.
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Pick one habit, only one, and try it today.
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And subscribe if you want your brain to stop working against you, because sometimes the right reminder at the right moment is where a different life quietly begins.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「10 Habits That Pull Your Brain Out of Survival Mode」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:brain, habit, moment, slowly, quiet。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が172文、単語が1568語あります。 音声の長さは9:56です。 話す速さは1分あたり約158語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
quietly 副詞/ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/静かに
interrupt 動詞/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/中断する, 邪魔する
spiral 名詞/ˈspaɪɹəl/渦巻, 渦巻線
repetition 名詞/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/繰り返し, 反復
scroll 名詞/skɹoʊl/巻物, スクロール
absorb 動詞/æbˈsɔɹb/吸収する
rejection 名詞/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/拒絶
pause 名詞/pɔːz/休止, 中断
subscribe 動詞/səbˈskɹaɪb/購読する
reminder 名詞/ɹɪˈmaɪndə(ɹ)/備忘, 念押し
emotion 名詞/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/感情, 心緒
autopilot 名詞/ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/オートパイロット
embarrass 動詞/ɪmˈbæɹəs/困らせる
emptiness 名詞空虚, 空
laziness 名詞/ˈleɪ.zi.nəs/無精

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語発音意味
wake up 動詞/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/目覚める, 目を覚ます
fall behind 動詞遅れる
give up 動詞降服する
switch off 動詞消す, 切る
take off 動詞脱ぐ
take over 動詞引き受ける

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • What if your brain was never built to keep you happy?
  • Why does your mind drag up an embarrassing memory from years ago?
  • Why can one ignored message quietly ruin your whole afternoon?
  • Here's something strange about your brain.
  • Instead of, I always fail, try, I'm still learning.

注意したい発音

話し手はisn't, don't, aren'tなど、短縮形や弱形を33回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, reshape /ɹiːˈʃeɪ̯p/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, autopilot /ˈɔtoʊˌpaɪlət/, positivity /ˌpɑ.zɪˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, unproductive /ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: spiral /ˈspaɪɹəl/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, replay /ˈɹiːpleɪ/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: overheat /ˌoʊvɚˈhit/, positivity /ˌpɑ.zɪˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, unproductive /ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/, overnight /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: flaw /flɔ/, headphones /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

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  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。quietly, interrupt, spiralなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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