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Tanya Cushman Reviewer So, when I was in art school,

I developed a shake in my hand, and this was actually the straightest line I could draw.

Now, in hindsight, I'll admit the shake was great for some things, like mixing a can of paint or shaking a Polaroid.

But for me, this was really doomsday.

This was the destruction of my dream of becoming an artist.

This shake developed out of a single -minded pursuit of pointillism, just years of making little tiny dots.

And eventually, the dots went from being perfectly round to looking more like tadpoles because of the shake.

So to compensate, I'd hold the pen tighter, which progressively made the shake worse, so I'd hold the pen tighter still.

And this became a vicious cycle that ended up causing so much pain and joint issues, I had trouble holding anything.

And after spending years perfecting dots, I couldn't imagine being an artist in any other way.

So I left art school, and then I left art completely.

But after a few years, I couldn't stay away from art, and I decided to go to a neurologist about the shake,

and I discovered that I had permanent nerve damage.

And the neurologist took one look at my squiggly line and said, And I said, well, why don't you just embrace the shake?

Okay.

So I did.

I went home.

I grabbed a pencil.

And my slide.

I slide.

And I just started letting my hands shake and shake.

I was embracing it.

And I started making all these scribble pictures.

And even though it wasn't the kind of art that I was ultimately passionate about, it felt great.

And more importantly, once I embraced the shake, I realized that I could still make art.

I just had to find a different approach to making the art that I wanted.

Now, I still enjoy the fragmentation of pointillism, seeing all these little tiny dots come together to create a unified whole.

So I began looking for other ways to fragment images where the shake wouldn't affect the work,

like dipping my feet in paint and walking on a canvas.

Or in a 3D structure consisting of 2x4s, creating a 2D image by burning it with a blowtorch.

I discovered that if I worked on a larger scale and with bigger materials, my hand wouldn't really hurt.

And I went from having a single approach to art to an approach to creativity that has completely changed my artistic horizons.

This was the first time I'd encountered the idea that embracing the limitation could actually drive creativity.

At the time, I was finishing up school, and I was so excited to finally get a real job and afford new art supplies,

because I actually had this really pathetic set of tools,

and I felt that I could do so much more with the supplies I thought an artist was supposed to have.

I actually didn't even have a regular pair of scissors.

I was using these metal shears until I stole a pair from the office that I worked at.

So, I got out of school, I got a job, I got a paycheck, I got myself to the art store,

and I just went nuts buying supplies.

I just bought everything I've ever wanted.

And then when I got home,

I sat down and I set myself to task to really try to create something just completely outside of the box.

And I sat there for hours, and nothing came to mind.

The same thing the next day, and the next, quickly slipping into a creative slump.

I was in a dark place for a long time,

unable to create, and it didn't even make any sense because I was finally able to support my art, and yet I was creatively blank.

but as I searched around the darkness I realized

that I was paralyzed by all the choices that I never had before

and it was then

that I thought back to this limitation of my jittery hands embrace the shake

and I realized if I ever wanted my creativity back I had to quit trying

so hard to think outside of the box and and get back into it.

I wondered, could you become more creative then by looking for limitations?

What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies?

At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in Starbucks,

and I know you can always ask for an extra cup if you want one.

So I decided to ask for 50.

Why not, right?

Surprisingly, they just handed them right over.

And then with the pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents.

This became a moment of clarification for me, that we need to first be limited in order to become limitless.

Then, I took this approach of thinking inside the box to my canvas and wondered, what if instead of painting on a canvas,

I could only paint on my chest?

So I painted 30 images, one layer at a time, one on top of another, with each picture representing an influence in my life.

Or what if instead of painting with a brush, I could only paint with karate chops?

So I dipped my hands in paint, and I just attacked the canvas,

and I actually hit so hard that I bruised a joint in my pinky, and it was stuck straight for a couple weeks.

Or what if instead of relying on myself, I had to rely on other people to create the content for the art?

So for six days, I lived in front of a webcam, I slept on the floor and ate takeout,

and I asked people to call me and share a story with me about a life -changing moment.

Their stories became the art as I wrote them onto this giant, revolving canvas.

Or what if, instead of making art to display, as we always do, I destroyed it?

This destruction idea turned into a year -long project that I called Goodbye Art.

Goodbye Art.

And the idea was that each and every piece of art had to be destroyed after its creation.

In the beginning of Goodbye Art, I focused on forced destruction, like this image of Jimi Hendrix.

It's made with over 7 ,000 matches.

Then I opened it up to creating art that was destroyed naturally.

I looked for temporary materials, like spitting out food, using sidewalk chalk,

and even frozen wine the last iteration of destruction was to try to produce something

that didn't actually exist in the first place

so what I did is I organized candles on a table I lit them

and then blew them out then repeated this process over

and over with the same set of candles then I assembled the the videos into the larger image.

So the end image was never visible as a physical whole.

It was destroyed before it ever existed.

In the course of this

Goodbye Art series, I created 23 different pieces with nothing left to display.

What I thought would be the ultimate limitation really turned out to be the ultimate liberation, as each time I created,

the destruction brought me back to a neutral place where I felt refreshed and ready to start the next project.

But it didn't happen overnight.

There were times my projects failed to get off the ground, or even worse, after spending tons of time on a project,

the end image was kind of embarrassing.

But having committed to the process, I continued on, And something surprising came out of this.

As I destroyed each project, I was really learning to let go.

Let go of outcomes, let go of failures, and let go of imperfections.

And in return, I found a process of creating art that was perpetual and unencumbered by results.

I found myself in a state of constant creation, thinking only of what's next, and coming up with more ideas than ever.

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When I think back to those three years away from art, away from my dream, just going through the motions,

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instead of looking for a different way to continue that dream, I just quit.

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I gave up.

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And what if I didn't embrace the shake?

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Because embracing the shake for me it wasn't just about art and having art skills.

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It was about life and having life skills.

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Because ultimately, most of what we do takes place here, inside the box, with limited resources.

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Learning to be creative within the confines of our limitations is the best hope we have to transform ourselves

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and collectively transform our world.

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Amen.

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Looking at limitations as a source of creativity changed the course of my life.

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Now when I run into a barrier or I find myself creatively stumped, I sometimes still struggle.

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But I continue to show up for the process and remind myself of the possibilities, like using hundreds of real live worms to make an image,

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using a pushpin to tattoo a banana.

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or painting a picture using hamburger grease.

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Limitations may be the most unlikely of places to harness creativity, but perhaps one of the best ways to get ourselves out of ruts,

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rethink categories, and challenge accepted norms, and instead of telling each other to seize the day,

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Maybe we can remind ourselves every day to seize the limitation.

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Thank you.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Embrace the Shake」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：shake, limitation, image, project, instead。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が118文、単語が1579語あります。音声の長さは11:00です。話す速さは1分あたり約143語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は77%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
shake 動詞	/ˈʃeɪk/	揺する, 揺らす
embrace 動詞	/ɛmˈbɹes/	抱擁する, 抱く
destruction 名詞	/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/	破壊, 破棄
creativity 名詞	/kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/	創造性, 創造力
canvas 名詞	/ˈkæn.vəs/	帆布, キャンバス
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	腕, 技
discover 動詞	/dɪˈskʌvə/	発見する, 見つける
remind 動詞	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	思い出させる
slide 名詞	/ˈslaɪ̯d/	滑り台
rely 動詞	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	頼る, あてにする
transform 動詞	/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/	変形する, 変換する
pencil 名詞	/ˈpɛnsəl/	鉛筆
candle 名詞	/ˈkæn.dəl/	蝋燭
seize 動詞	/ˈsiːz/	捉える, つかむ
naturally 副詞	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	勿論

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
get off 動詞	降りる
give up 動詞	降服する
sit down 動詞	座る, 腰掛ける

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。

I just bought everything I've ever wanted.
I wondered, could you become more creative then by looking for limitations?
What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies?
I could only paint on my chest?
And what if I didn't embrace the shake?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	was paralyzed · be destroyed · was destroyed
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has completely changed · I've ever wanted

注意したい発音

話し手はdidn't, I'd, couldn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を17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。

「th」の音: pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, rethink /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/
「sh」と「zh」の音: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

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: rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, neutral /ˈnuː.tɹəl/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, visible /ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/, nerve /nɝv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/, clarification /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

この動画での練習方法

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。
通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。shake, embrace, destructionなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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