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That's how the book begins.
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That's how the book begins.
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The hardest thing in the world is to live only once.
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Yeah.
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Well, in a sense, you know,
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the idea of YOLO, you only live once,
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has been really destructive to our world.
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You know, corporations think they only have one life to harvest the most profit out of the environment
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and therefore harm the environment.
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You know, we're told again and again,
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no regrets, just seize the day.
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and it's very self-centered in a way.
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But I think another way to think about you only live once is what
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if you only have one chance to live with care,
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consideration, a sense of obligation to each other?
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And it's not even like this,
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you know, goody, woo-woo, selflessness,
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but it actually makes your life much better when you live with the obligation that you owe each other everything.
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both strangers and family and your environment and your community.
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And so I wanted to just change the meaning of YOLO.
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And as a poet, I love that one phrase could have double meaning.
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You can approach it that if you only have one life,
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what if you didn't just grab everything you can in the candy store,
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leaving it a total catastrophe in your wake?
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But what if you did it so that other people can also inhabit that space and you can improve it?
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And, you know, our culture often thinks that's silly, that's childish, right?
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It's too wholesome and earnest.
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But I think earnestness is an incredible, courageous thing.
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I respect it immensely in the people I meet and the students I have.
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If you're earnest and sincere,
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it's the most greatest truth because it means that you're willing to risk vulnerability and ridicule.
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You're willing to be wrong and come off silly because you believe in everything.
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I think it's okay to believe in everything.
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It's okay to believe that if you have this one life,
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you should try to make it better for other people.
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Children just have that.
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It's not a question to them.
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But as you get older,
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we start to be more fearful of that because we think that if I believe in goodness too much,
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then I've fallen for something.
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I've been duped.
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I've been stymied into believing goodness.
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And sometimes it's really hard.
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There are days where I can't do it.
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But that's my North Star.
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And that's why I started the book with that North Star,
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is that the hardest thing is to live only once.
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So make it count and make it count for others as well.
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Thank you, Prashida.
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When you started the book,
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did you start it with high story?
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Because I've talked to authors,
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they start in the middle.
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Wally Lamb told me he started,
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you know, this much is true.
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He started it in the middle because he had the idea for the twins.
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Where did it start for you?
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It started with landscape.
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It started with the town.
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I write by hand.
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So I wrote this the day after the election in 2020.
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When the results were coming in,
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it was kind of chaotic.
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No one knew what was the results were.
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And I said, all right,
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I'm gonna rent a room.
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I live in Western Massachusetts.
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I'm gonna rent a little cabin and just go away.
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And when I come back,
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hopefully we'll know what's happening.
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But it got more and more convoluted,
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as you remember from that election.
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Yeah.
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And no one knew where the country was going to be headed,
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who was going to head it.
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And I turned off all the radios and TV.
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I went to this cabin.
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I started writing by hand.
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And I spent nine pages writing about the towns in the Connecticut River Valley that sustained me,
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that I grew up in.
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Because I wanted to really think,
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like, what is my America?
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What is America?
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and I want to really sink in to the town as a character, as description.
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I wanted to really love it in all of its difficulty to just present it and not go on with a plot.
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So it started with space.
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It started with land and the history of land because land is tied to history.
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And at the end of the day,
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I think I write historical fiction,
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not in the sense of a period piece,
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but I write fiction that has history involved in it,
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and land is a part of history.
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Yeah, this is on page three where you're just scribing the natural area,
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and you say, Look how the birches,
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blackened all night by starlings,
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shatter when dawn's first sparks touch their beaks.
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I went, holy Jesus, who is this guy?
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When dawn's first shadow touches their beaks,
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It felt like we were right there watching them disperse, right?
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Well, the sentence is a linear technology.
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So it's a kind of a track.
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And what you do as an author is that you're asking a reader for their trust to say,
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just stay with me in this track.
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Because it's a big leap of faith.
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It's almost like when you're riding on a roller coaster, it's one track.
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And as an author, you have to say,
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well, let's just come with me and we're going to zoom in on something
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that people often drive past and don't think about.
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And so the book is a wonderful opportunity to recalibrate value systems,
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to create a different hierarchy of values.
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And let's just stay on these starlings and love this landscape because it's so brutal,
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because it's so fruitful to the communities that live it.
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And also, what is America?
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You know, I was haunted by that.
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I don't know what next week is going to look like,
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but I know that this landscape in all of its paradoxes has sustained my imagination
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and I want it to be true to its history.
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Wow.
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Crystal is here.
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I hear the small town setting of this story.
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Really, you connected with this?
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Very much so.
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Thank you so much, Ocean,
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for giving us this book.
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It was incredible.
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I loved it.
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Thank you.
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So I know that this is set in New England,
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but it felt like East Gladness could be any small town really suspended in time.
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I grew up in middle America in and around towns that were left behind.
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And it immediately transported me in chapter one when I was really feeling something deeply familiar.
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So I felt really life at the edge of nothing,
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the looming presence of addiction,
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the randomness of tragedy, working poverty, fast food.
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And this isn't the first time that you've written about small towns and near rural life.
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And I wanted to know what draws you to this kind of setting
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and what continues to inspire you about places like this.
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I grew up in Hartford and Hartford is interesting because if you drive,
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you're in the middle of the city and it's the city that's often been forgotten.
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We often have a saying that all the good things are sucked up by Boston and New York.
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And so it is a place where when you come to it,
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the people there are the people who can't get out.
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They're what's left over.
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We have that mentality.
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And Hartford's interesting.
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You drive 20 minutes and you'll be in a cornfield.
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You could be in the middle of skyscrapers,
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drive 20 minutes in any direction.
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You'd be in a smack dab in a cornfield.
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I was surprised to hear that because I used to go to Hartford.
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My friend Gail started her career there in Hartford.
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Really?
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WFSB in Hartford, yes.
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And so I was thinking,
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I didn't know there were cornfields near Hartford at all.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's right across the river.
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And a lot of people work in the fields and then live in the city and vice versa.
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And I realized that when you live in a small town,
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a small community, you owe respect to everybody.
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Because you can't be, pardon my French, an asshole.
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If you are, people know your name and they know your family and they know your grandmother.
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And I felt like there's an incredible obligation that you have by offering each other dignity because there's nowhere to hide.
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You can be a jerk in New York and you just fade into the subway and then that's it.
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But there's no anonymity.
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You have to stand by what you believe.
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You have to defend and argue yourself.
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And then you have to face each other when you don't agree.
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You might have to work side by side.
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And so I wanted to see that that's actually not a place left behind.
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That's an advantageous, even innovative way to relate to people.
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When you cannot hide behind anything,
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you have to face each other with respect,
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dignity, and a kind of proximity that so much of America really is.
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If you talk to people,
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everybody kind of wants the same thing.
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Even though we have vastly chaotic and disparate political beliefs,
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at the end of the day,
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we want to live with dignity and respect for each other.
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And living in a small town forces you to do that.
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And it allows you dexterity with the language.
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You know how to talk about something without offending each other, right?
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You talk so that you can see each other again at the laundromat, because you will.
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Because you will.
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Everybody knows your business.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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このレッスンでは、オーシャン・ヴォンが語る「一度きりの人生をどう生きるか」というテーマから、人生の意味や他者への配慮について考えます。この内容を通じて、英語のリスニング能力を高めると共に、自 分の意見を英語で表現するスキルを向上させましょう。特に、心に響く言葉やフレーズを学ぶことで、英語の発音を良くする練習ができるでしょう。
キーワードとフレーズ
- YOLO（一度きりの人生）
- 義務感（obligation）
- 誠実さ（earnestness）
- 他者への配慮（consideration for others）
- 脆弱性（vulnerability）
- 自己中心的（self-centered）
- 率直さ（sincerity）
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