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Okay, today I'm gonna help you get out of a rut.

Maybe you're a creative or an ambitious person who's fallen off.

Probably you fall into these vicious cycles all the time of self -improvement

and then self -destruction where you like get your life together

and build the perfect workout program and exactly what you want out of your life.

You stay consistent with it for like a week or two

and then you fall off and you spiral back into cheap dopamine, binging.

I get it, I've been there.

I've done that many times myself

and I've gotten really good at getting out of the rut that forms when you fall into this pattern.

So all we're going to do today is just break down the process into a series of simple steps you can follow.

What I want you to do is get a journal, a piece of paper, something you can write on.

I want you to get a pen, and we're just going to think through this together.

And then you're going to take some action.

This is very simple.

It's nothing you haven't heard before.

All I'm going to do is try to give you a helpful voice in your head

that then makes you actually want to do it.

So the trick is this.

We have to recondition your brain to get satisfaction from doing difficult things.

If you have fallen off and you're in a rut, probably your brain is really addicted to getting that quick hit of pleasure

or satisfaction from scrolling or vaping or smoking weed or drinking or binge eating or watching porn, any number of cheap dopamine substances.

I get it.

Again, no shame, no guilt.

You're a human being.

Those things tend to be awesome when you're in a really bad state.

So I get it.

We have to get your brain to be like, oh, I enjoy meaningful progress.

I enjoy moving towards a goal and I enjoy facing challenge in order to get closer to that goal.

So this looks like working out.

This looks like writing.

This looks like doing the dishes, putting on clean clothes, going to the store to buy groceries, to do some of these things.

You understand the deal.

And none of it is glamorous when you do it.

But over time, your brain's going to be like, yep, I like this.

I like this.

I feel like I'm stacking up points.

It's more about getting into this state where you are seeking those things out

and it just takes a little bit of coaxing, okay?

Because right now in the rut, it feels impossible.

And then whatever creative ambition or passion in life you wanna pursue feels definitely impossible, right?

Because it's just like, how could I possibly do something difficult right now when I can't get myself out of bed?

So we're just gonna coax you into a state of doing that, okay?

And understand the power of momentum is that

if you do get your feet on the floor and then stand up and then put on clothes, take a shower, put on clothes,

do the dishes, is make yourself a single egg and then eat that and then go for a walk around the block.

If you can just stack up like 10 of those things, immediately you're going to start feeling better, right?

Now, and then over the course of the week, you're going to slowly remove the cheap dopamine substances so

that your brain naturally gets excited by the difficult challenge or by the writing practice.

If you want creative work to replace your consumption addictions, you have to remove the consumption addictions so that it becomes interesting, right?

In a world where you're distracted all the time, writing, performing music, whatever your passion is, is just not going to be that fun, right?

Or it won't be fun if your brain is overloaded with cheap dopamine you didn't earn.

You know this, I know this, we're just reviewing it again because it's good to talk about.

The real thing we need to get into is understanding the force that causes that fall -off effect, which is entropy.

Entropy means chaos.

It can also mean resistance.

Resistance as defined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art.

Resistance, or entropy, or chaos, whatever you really want to call it, is just all the shit,

internal and external, that gets in the way of you doing what you want to do, or that makes it hard.

Internal resistance, internal entropy is self -doubt.

It's the desire to be distracted.

It's the desire to do something besides what you know you should be doing.

External resistance is just all of the inconvenience of life.

It's extreme weather events.

It's having to do stuff for your job.

It's family drama.

It's all of the difficult stuff that demands your attention that you don't really want to do.

We have to learn to navigate all of this stuff.

This is a crucial skill of being a creative in the 21st century, of being a human being in the 21st century or any century.

We have to be able to face the inevitable chaos of life.

And the mistake is thinking that we can somehow not deal with chaos.

When you fantasize about your perfect locked in existence, you're very rarely factoring in all of the inevitable entropy,

when you can't sleep because you had too much caffeine during the day,

or when you have a throat infection and have to go to the doctor

and that gets in the way of your perfect dialed robotic routine.

You rarely account for these things when you're imagining, when you're fantasizing, when you're mentally masturbating about your future life.

So now we're going to get real and we're going to say these things happen and we need to somehow stay aligned,

stay connected to our more aligned identities when the inevitable chaos presents itself, because it is inevitable.

What happens when you fall off is you let entropy sweep you away.

This is my experience, at least.

I've had so many experiences where I get really locked in and I get really dialed in my lifestyle.

I start writing, I'm working out, I feel really, I feel like I'm connected to that locked in version, the future that I want to live.

And then entropy rears its ugly head, internal or external.

Internal being, oh, I get distracted

And then now I don't feel like I'm, um, who I said I was or external entropy.

I get sick.

I get a throat infection.

I get a gut infection that happened to me this summer.

I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

And then suddenly you're like, oh, I'm not perfect.

The whole system is going to collapse.

I am.

I can't do this.

I can't be perfect.

So I'm not going to do it at all.

And this typically happens gradually.

But you see the problem, right?

It's like this this isn't going to work for us.

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The real skill we have to build is being able to ride the wave of entropy, chaos, inevitable discomfort, inconvenience, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, without losing ourselves and being able to engage with the system imperfectly.

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So what I'll invite

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you to do is I'd like you to take the pen on the piece of paper you took out,

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and I want you to write down just exactly what happened the last time you fell off maybe this was today, maybe this was last week.

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I just want you to write out the sequence of events that led to it.

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And I want you to look for the pattern in there.

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Notice where the entropy comes in.

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Was it internal or external, right?

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Was it something that happened that was outside your control that then made you give up on yourself?

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Or was it something internal?

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And then you kind of bought back into the narrative of being not locked in, of being undisciplined, of being weak, a shameful, addicted creature.

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You see how these narratives inform our actions, right?

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When we believe that we are addicted, helpless, we tend to do those things more.

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When we believe that we are locked in, that we're disciplined, that we're powerful creatures that can do amazing things,

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we typically engage with the meaningful challenge a little bit more.

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And the way that you influence that narrative is through the action.

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Forget about the imagining who you want to be and just do the things.

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Action rewires the whole narrative.

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And that's the power of doing a million small things.

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Not a million, but like a hundred small things.

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Get out of bed, put on clean clothes, take a shower, do a workout, go for a walk, listen to music,

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listen to a song that makes you feel like yourself.

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Write down every single thing you can about what you're struggling with.

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And then you start to feel like a human being again.

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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「How to get out of creative block」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：entropy, internal, chaos。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が124文、単語が1522語あります。音声の長さは7:13です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約211語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。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
chaos 名詞	/ˈkeɪˌɑs/	混沌
inevitable 形容詞	/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/	不可避の, 避けられない
narrative 名詞	/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/	物語
cloth 名詞	/klɒθ/	布
infection 名詞	/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/	伝染
distract 動詞	/dɪˈstɹækt/	気をそらす
addict 名詞	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	中毒者
passion 名詞	/ˈpæʃən/	激情
rarely 副詞	/ˈɹɛəɹli/	滅多に…ない, 稀に
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	腕, 技
connect 動詞	/kəˈnɛkt/	繋げる
consumption 名詞	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	消費
throat 名詞	/ˈθɹoʊt/	喉
substance 名詞	/ˈsʌbstəns/	物質
dish 名詞	/dɪʃ/	皿

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
write down 動詞	書き留める, 記す
stand up 動詞	立ち上がる
take out 動詞	取り出す

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。

I get it, I've been there.
It's nothing you haven't heard before.
I feel like I'm stacking up points.
It's having to do stuff for your job.
I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

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
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	I've been · I've done · I've gotten
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	is really addicted · is overloaded · be distracted

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, I'm, we'reなど、短縮形や弱形を50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: cloth /klɒθ/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
「sh」と「zh」の音: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/

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: rarely /ˈɹɛəɹli/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, gradually /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/, scroll /skɹoʊl/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, meaningful /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/, helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/, define /dɪˈfaɪn/

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。chaos, inevitable, narrative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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