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For the past month or so, I've been thinking a lot about life, and when people say that,

they usually mean what they want to do in life, whether that be their career, or relationships, or entertainment, or leisure.

But I've been thinking differently.

Of course, I've been thinking about those things, but I've also been thinking about how much of your life is really yours.

How much of your life is really being lived to its full potential?

Are you living, or are you just existing?

On average, you're going to get about 79 years on this big rock called Earth.

If you live in Monaco, it's closer to 90.

If you live in Chad, you'll be lucky to get 50.

Regardless, we don't get 79 years of freedom.

We have responsibilities and things that we can't ignore.

Most importantly, our bodies.

Assuming you sleep 8 hours a night on On average, about a third of your life, or 26 years, is going to be spent sleeping.

So right away we're down from 79 to 53.

But it doesn't stop there.

Chances are if you're watching this video, you're going to or have gone to school.

In the United States, you'll go for at least 12 years.

8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 36 weeks a year.

This amounts to 17 ,280 hours spent just inside the school building.

But wait, we also have to factor in homework and out -of -school activities, among other things.

So, this is more like 22 ,000 to 25 ,000 hours, or about 3 years of your life.

If you go to college or university afterwards, make it 5 years instead.

We're down to 48 years.

Well, all this schooling and money you spent getting a degree has to be put to some use, right?

Chances are you'll try and get a job in the field of whatever it is your degree is in.

It'll probably be a full -time job, so you'll be working 40 hour weeks pretty regularly, if not more than that.

Let's say you get two weeks of vacation per year.

The average person works for about 40 to 50 years of their life, so we'll just go with the average and say 45.

Over your entire life, you'll work on average about 90 ,000 hours, or about 10 years of your life.

We have 38 years left.

Wait, depending on where you live, your commute to work will vary.

You might drive yourself, you might walk, you might use an Uber or a taxi.

Regardless, your commute to and from work, on average, takes about one and a half hours a day.

Adding this up over your entire working career, it amounts to 17 ,520 hours, or about two years of your life.

36 years left.

All of this work and studying really builds up an appetite, so you should probably spend some time eating.

On an average day, we spend about 70 minutes just eating food to survive.

In your 79 years of life, you'll spend about 32 ,000 hours just eating, or about 4 years of your life, down to 32.

Well, after you're done eating, you have to clean up and maybe do some chores around the house.

On average, you spend about one hour a day doing tasks just around your house, cleaning up after you eat, washing dishes, doing laundry, showering,

and plenty of other stuff.

This amounts to nearly 29 ,000 hours over the course of your life, or about 3 years.

29 years left.

Eventually, all of that food and water has to leave your body somehow.

You'll spend about 3 months of your life just sitting on the toilet.

Yeah.

Of course, we also waste time, and we do it pretty well.

Over the course of our lifetimes, we'll spend about 115 ,000 hours on our phones, or about 13 years.

This, of course, is just your phone.

This doesn't include you watching TV, you playing games, among other things.

16 years left.

Assuming you can afford to retire at the average age of 62, you'll spend the rest of your life living the luxuries of retirement,

if you can still function properly.

Over 50 % of retired people over the age of 65 have some sort of disability, with 15 % of those people having three or more.

Chances are, if you are one of these people, you'll be in and out of medical care pretty often.

So those final 16 years of freedom you have, it's a coin flip.

That doesn't exactly entail freedom.

So overall, you have one year in your 79 -year life to really and truly do what you want to do.

But despite the age you might be,

young or old, you may be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life.

For example, while you're young and in school from the ages of 1 to 18,

you'll most likely be spending nearly every day in the presence of your parents.

After you finish your schooling, assuming your parents are in their mid -40s, we'll say they have about 30 years left in their life.

The real world starts to set in.

Your job, your possible relationships, your important things to do in life take priority.

Eventually, if you leave your hometown, you'll only be seeing your parents around holidays and special occasions, maybe 10 days a year.

So, 300 days left with the people who brought you into the world, whereas before you would see them almost every single day.

You have already spent 95 % of the time

that you will ever spend with your parents in the first 18 years of your life.

And now, you only have the remaining 5 % for the rest of your life.

At the end of the day, there's only one thing that matters, and that's your own happiness.

What many people don't realize is that they do

so many things in life just to try and succeed as opposed to fulfilling a purpose.

They work a job they hate for 40 years just to make

that extra $30 ,000 a year so they can afford a car that they only drive to work.

It's temporary happiness, not genuine happiness.

People go to school to become a doctor because their mom or their dad or somebody else told them to, not because they actually want to.

I really hope that every single person watching this video gets insanely rich

and famous so that they can finally realize that this isn't the point of life.

The point is to be happy with what you're doing while you're doing it.

Alright, sure, the 45 working years or however long you're working is going to be hard to get past.

But what if you don't hate waking up every day to go to work?

What if your work is your happiness?

You see, life isn't a straight path.

You can't map it out perfectly one -to -one.

It just doesn't work like that.

We spend every day planning on what we're going to do the next, instead of just taking in the day for what it actually is.

Sure, we have to eat.

Duh.

But what if we spend that time eating with friends or family, or just people who make your life better?

Your commute to work might be long and tedious sometimes,

but what if you spend that time listening to podcasts or carpooling with co -workers and friends?

The 13 years we waste on our phones might seem useless, but what if we use that time to build the business you've always wanted to,

or build the brand you've always wanted, or make a YouTube channel to talk to people about the random ideas you get?

You'll bring so much value to people that you never even thought was possible.

Let's say you take care of yourself and regularly work out and eat decently well.

Your chances of being healthy later in life is much more likely,

and you'll have much more free time to master the things that you really want, whether that be a skill or just relationships with others.

No matter what you or I or any person on this planet does, time doesn't stop for anyone.

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Time is the one thing you cannot get back.

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If you lose a lot of money, it's fine.

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You can get more.

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If your friend decides to turn their back on you.

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It's fine, there's millions of people out there in the same situation.

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But time, you can't get it back.

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Once it's gone, it's gone.

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How many days have you spent doing the same mundane tasks that you hate?

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And more importantly, when is it going to end?

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Life is about choices, every choice you've ever made has led you to this exact moment, watching this video.

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And given that you only have one life, at least in this universe, why not make your own decisions?

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So many people live life predicated on somebody else's opinion, which is dumb.

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People have so many barriers in life, but they aren't really about money, they aren't about time.

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They aren't about how you look, it's about opinions.

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Other people's opinions.

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Probably about 90 % of people are unhappy because they value someone else's opinion more than their own.

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When you're old and unable to do the things that you could have when you're younger, you'll regret.

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And regret hurts more than any breakup, failure, or anything else ever could.

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Life doesn't have to suck, you don't have to regret everything.

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That FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a poison.

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Instead of living trying to mimic people you see on Instagram or YouTube or social media, just live based on your own terms.

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Instead of just observing and living passively, really start to think about what you do with your time.

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Does that mean call your boss and tell him you quit?

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No. Does that mean drop out of school tomorrow?

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No. All it means is to truly decide what you want in life and put yourself in the right direction.

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It's not going to happen overnight, that's not the point.

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There would be no journey, then.

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As cliche as it sounds, your 79 year journey here is very short.

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Sure, it's technically the longest thing you'll ever do.

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But the universe is 13 .8 billion years old.

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If the universe's history was condensed down into 24 hours, the world as we know it, with cars and airplanes and civilization as we know it,

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would only come into existence in the very last second.

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Block out any and all negativity in your life, and once you can truly realize that the only opinion that matters is your own,

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life can get pretty clear.

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And the noises inside your head get pretty quiet.

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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How Short Your Life REALLY Is」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：hour, spend, average。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が62文、単語が1750語あります。音声の長さは10:06です。話す速さは1分あたり約173語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。単語の92%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。全62文のうち12文が疑問文なので、疑問文のイントネーションや短い受け答えの練習に向いています。

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
happiness 名詞	/ˈhæpinɪs/	幸福, 幸せ
regret 動詞	/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/	後悔する, 悔いる
retire 動詞	/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/	退職する, 引退する
ignore 動詞	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	無視する, 忽略する
temporary 形容詞	/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/	暫くの, 暫時の
wash 動詞	/wɑʃ/	洗う
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	腕, 技
suck 動詞	/sʌk/	吸う, しゃぶる
priority 名詞	/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/	優先, 優先権
vacation 名詞	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	休暇, 休み
lifetime 名詞	/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/	生涯, 一生
occasion 名詞	/əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/	場合, 機会
genuine 形容詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/	本物の
luxury 名詞	/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/	贅沢
succeed 動詞	/səkˈsiːd/	継ぐ, 継承する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
clean up 動詞		掃除する
miss out 動詞		逃す
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	目覚める, 目を覚ます

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 work is your happiness?
You see life isn't a straight path.
You can't map it out perfectly one-to-one.

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
現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作	I've been thinking
条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果	If you live in Chad, you'll be · if you leave your hometown, you'll only
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	have gone · have already spent · you've always wanted
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	being lived · be spent · be put

注意したい発音

話し手はyou'll, you're, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を62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: wash /wɑʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, dish /dɪʃ/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

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: importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, alright /ɔlˈɹaɪt/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, vary /ˈvɛəɹi/, overnight /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, negativity /ˌnɛɡ.əˈtɪ.vɪ.ti/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: lifetime /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, flip /flɪp/, fulfill /fʊlˈfɪl/

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。
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。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。happiness, regret, retire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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