シャドーイング練習: What to do instead of scrolling - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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So, you're bored for five minutes.
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What's the first thing you do?
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You pick up your phone, you unlock it without even thinking, scroll for a bit, and somehow an hour disappears.
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It doesn't feel like that much in a moment.
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But here's the crazy thing.
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The average teenager spends almost five hours per day on social media, which is nearly a third of their waking life.
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That's after school, after homework, after literally everything else you have to do.
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And just imagine what you could do with even just a fraction of that time.
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So here are 8 things you can do that are actually fun, surprisingly useful and way more rewarding than another hour of scrolling.
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Let's get into it.
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First up is start a personal challenge.
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You know those YouTube videos where people do these completely ridiculous
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challenges like living in a grocery store for 100 days or surviving on some deserted island?
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Obviously, we don't need to do anything that extreme, but I do think these videos stumbled onto something, which is that turning something into a challenge makes it way more engaging.
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And we can actually set our own little challenges.
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So recently, I've been learning to code.
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And I gave myself this simple challenge, which is to code for one hour every day for a week.
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Now, of course, this doesn't have to be coding for you.
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The cool thing is that you can turn pretty much anything into a challenge.
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And to make it really easy, here's a simple formula that you can use, which is to pick an activity, then set a daily goal,
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and give yourself a set amount of time to stick with it.
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For example, that might be learning 10 French words every day for a week, or maybe don't use your phone during the first hour after waking up for five consecutive days.
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And who knows, it might be the start of a new habit or the beginning of learning a new skill.
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I'm curious, what challenge are you going to set for yourself?
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Let me know in the comments.
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I might even steal some of your ideas.
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Next up is create something.
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Honestly, we spend so much time consuming things, whether that's TikToks, Netflix, even your dense school textbook.
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But we spent surprisingly little time actually making something ourselves, whether that's writing something or painting or making pancakes.
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And it's actually never been easier to get started.
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There are literally thousands of tutorials online that you can follow.
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I literally searched up something like how to draw Harry Potter and followed the tutorial and I ended up with this drawing.
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And I was looking at it thinking like, wait, I actually made that.
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And honestly, I found it such a relaxing way to spend an afternoon.
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And the coolest part is that every time you create something, you get a little bit better and you can literally just see yourself improve.
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Now the third one is upgrade your study space.
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Most of us spend literally hundreds of hours studying every year.
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So why not make our study space somewhere we actually enjoy spending time?
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Now, my desk has definitely been through a few phases.
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I think probably the worst phase was when it looked like this.
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Anyways, we don't talk about that.
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But the other day, I decided to give my desk a little upgrade.
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And it's nothing crazy, honestly.
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I just got a little plant, a nice lamp, and just cleared away random stuff I didn't need.
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And it really just made me want to sit down and study a lot more.
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And you don't really need one of those like crazy desk setups you see all over YouTube.
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I mean, mine definitely doesn't look like that.
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The goal is just to create a space that just feels nice to spend time in.
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So if you've got half an hour this weekend, consider clearing your desk or adding a small plant or even just putting your books upright.
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Next up is do today's Wordle.
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This is probably the most random suggestion on the list, but I absolutely love it.
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If you've never heard of it before, Wordle is a daily word puzzle that takes like two minutes to solve.
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And the goal is to guess the word in as few attempts as possible.
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It's honestly such a fun activity to do with friends or family,
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and it almost becomes like this little competition to see who gets it in the fewest attempts.
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Now if Wordo isn't really our thing, there are tons of other puzzles out there as well,
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whether that's chess puzzles or sudokus or learning how to solve a Rubik's cube.
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Whatever it is, it's just a really nice way to actually get your brain to work a little instead of just passively consuming content.
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Number five is join a competition.
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Honestly, one of the best decisions I ever made was joining a math competition.
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That might sound a bit weird, but I'd always enjoyed doing math.
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But competing really changed something.
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It got me surrounded by people who were just as excited about doing these problems as I was.
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And before I knew it, I was spending my Saturdays grinding difficult math problems.
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And that's not really because I had to, but more because I actually really wanted to.
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Now you might be thinking, okay, she's a bit crazy, I don't even like maths.
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The cool thing is that there are competitions in pretty much anything you can think of, whether that's writing, debating, robotics, or chess.
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The list literally goes on forever.
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And I think for me, the best part wasn't necessarily like winning anything, but it's more like competitions can give you something to work towards.
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And they introduce you to people who care about the same things as you do.
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And that alone can make a hobby so much more rewarding.
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So if there's something you're already into, just search it up, follow it by the word competition.
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And don't worry if you're just starting out, you can often find competitions that are really easy to get started with.
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Next up is organize your digital school files.
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Have you ever spent like 10 minutes looking for that chapter summary or your notes the night before test,
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Only to realize it's got something like document 17 buried somewhere between 100 random files on your computer.
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How about we spend half an hour fixing this?
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And probably the easiest way is to create one folder called school.
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And then inside that, make one folder for each subject and move your files to where they actually belong.
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And you'll end up with this nice, neat, organized place where you can actually find everything.
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Honestly, it's weirdly satisfying to do.
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And it also might save you a lot of hours of panic and headache later.
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Next up is journaling.
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I started doing this quite recently and it's been super mind clearing.
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And the way I kind of look at is
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that your brain on most days is like a computer running 50 tabs all at once.
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It could be school stuff or something someone said or just random stuff you're worried about.
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And all these things are kind of just sitting in a background and taking up a lot of mental energy.
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And journaling is a bit like closing off all these tabs.
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You get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper.
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and there is no one right way to do it but personally I love to just do a brain dump
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whatever is in my head I just get it down onto the paper
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and then I write down my action points
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so basically what I'm going to do about it
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and the cool part is
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that once it's actually written down you can look at it way more objectively than
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if it were just floating in your head like something
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that felt super huge urgent panicky at 11 p.m can suddenly look a lot smaller
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when it's just like a lines of text.
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And last but not least is explore your future.
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Honestly, we spend so much time thinking about our next exams,
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homework, deadlines, but we don't actually spend that much time thinking about the life we're actually studying for.
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So every now and then I like to explore what's out there.
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And one of my favorite ways to do that is by watching day in the life vlogs.
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So the other day I watched one about a college student and another one was about a software engineer.
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And I just found it super interesting to see what other people are up to
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and what they do in a day and what their routines are.
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So these were eight things you can do when you're bored and scrolling TikTok.
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Hopefully these gave you some inspiration.
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Comment below which one you vibe with the most, I'd love to know.
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And if you haven't already, like and subscribe and I'll see you next time.

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