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For most of my life, I thought life was a test.

Every decision, every person I dated, every year of my 20s, there was a right and a wrong answer.

Like, if I made the right moves, the right city, the right job, the right person, the right version of myself,

then one day, I'll finally pass.

But lately, I started to think that the whole frame is broken.

Maybe life was never a test.

I think life is a game.

Act 1.

Most people are playing a game they didn't choose.

I think the first game I ever learned to play was the college admissions game.

Be well -rounded, but also exceptional, but also impressive enough in a way that can be summarized in 650 words.

Super easy, right?

My entire childhood became this long, convoluted game that I never remembered agreeing to play.

Join this club, take this AP, volunteer here, become a full human being, but somehow still can be flattened into neat little bullet points.

I learned a lot.

I worked hard.

I became disciplined.

But the dangerous part by the game is when you start believing that the rules are reality.

When you start believing that the scoreboard is the truth.

And my scoreboard is very clear.

Get good grades means being a good person.

Good school means good future.

And rejection means you did something horribly wrong.

And when you believe that for long enough, you stop asking yourself what you actually want.

You're playing the game.

You're stuck in the game.

You just ask what will make it look like you're winning.

That was the first game I ever remembered to play.

The game of being impressive.

But the thing about the game of being impressive is that it never really ends.

You think it ends when you get into college.

No, no, no. Then it becomes internships, then jobs, then cities, then apartments, then relationships.

Then whether you're doing it by 22, 25, 40, this game never ends.

You always keep on playing.

My whole life, my whole childhood was built around getting into an Ivy League school.

That was the bare minimum extortation.

As a young person, you just feel like a failure.

Your parents immigrated here and put so much money into your education.

And for it to not pay off in the way

that they expected or for you to expect it is a tough thing to deal with.

And at that time, the Ivy League school was a trophy.

That was the proof.

That was the thing that I felt like I needed to feel that I'd done my childhood correctly.

So when I got rejected, it didn't just feel like a school didn't want me.

It felt like the whole game had ended game over test failed please restart your life

but what's funny is

that it's only after getting rejected from all these colleges did i start posting youtube videos it was only

because the door that i had worshipped for so long didn't open

that i started looking for a different one

i thought rejection was the end of my life not to be dramatic

or anything but it might have been the first time my life actually became mine.

Act two.

A game is different from a test.

I think this is why the difference between a test and a game matters.

A test has one correct answer.

A game has many strategies.

A test says don't mess up, but a game says learn the mechanics.

A test makes one wrong move feel like a failure.

A game makes wrong moves part of how you get better.

And when I thought that life was a test, every wrong move felt fatal.

If I failed, it meant that I wasn't talented.

If I changed my mind, it meant that I wasn't consistent.

But in a game, the wrong move isn't an identity.

It's information.

It tells you what doesn't work.

It tells you where the walls are.

It teaches you the map.

You don't play a game for the first time and expect yourself to immediately understand the world completely.

You wander around.

You press the wrong buttons.

You talk to random characters who maybe will matter later.

You enter rooms that lead nowhere.

And maybe life is more like that than we would like to admit.

Maybe some things don't make sense yet because you haven't unlocked the next level.

And that's the inspiring part.

Not that life is easy, not that rejection isn't hurt,

embarrassment isn't sting, or losing something that you really wanted makes you want to rot in bed and order a $30 salad.

Restarted, explored, and eventually mastered.

A test makes you freeze because any answer could be wrong.

A game lets you move because every move will teach you something.

But I think where life is a game gets dangerous is

when people hear it and they just think the point is to just win harder.

More money, more beauty, more status, more followers.

The problem is not that people treat life like a game.

The problem is that they never ask which game they're actually playing.

Because every game has a different prize.

The status game says the prize is being admired.

The beauty game says the prize is to be desired.

The comparison game says proving your life is better than everyone else's.

But there is another game, the life game.

And that game has completely different rules.

The prize is not being the most impressive person in the room.

The prize is making things that feel true.

And I think that's a game that I'm trying to play now.

Not because I don't care about success, trust me, I do.

But because I don't want to play meaningless games that lead me to meaningless prizes.

I don't think the goal is to stop playing games.

I think the goal is to choose a better one.

Act four, play is where the self comes back.

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So if the aliveness game has a different prize, it also has a different way of playing.

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And I think the mechanic is something we've all almost forgotten to do.

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Play.

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There is a psychiatrist named Stuart Brown who has this line that I haven't stopped thinking about.

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He says, the opposite of play is not work, it's depression.

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Like, okay, Stuart, I just said I had no hobbies.

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But I think what he means is that when you lose play, you lose vitality.

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You lose spontaneity.

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You lose a part of yourself that can be still surprised at your own life.

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There's another psychoanalyst, Winnicott, who wrote about the true self and the false self.

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He basically believed that play is where the real self comes out, that it is in playing that a person becomes creative,

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uses the whole personality, and discovers the self.

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The true self wants to walk all around Manhattan to try all of the chocolate chip cookie stores and rank them.

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The true self wants to make something meaningful and beautiful even if it doesn't necessarily make economic sense.

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And I think that's why YouTube started to feel different for me this year.

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Because on paper, pivoting into YouTube made almost no sense.

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It meant longer videos, more effort, less immediate money, more vulnerability.

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But it felt meaningful.

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It felt like I was playing again.

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Telling these stories connecting with you guys being able to write and share these thoughts feels like playing

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It doesn't feel like just making a 30 second tiktok about lip glosses or the outfit i'm wearing that day

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It feels Fun And I think for the first time in a

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while I felt like I wasn't just feeding into a machine

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I was truly making something something with a beginning middle and end something that I could put my brain inside my memories

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My thoughts my slightly dramatic inner monologue it ultimately felt like play.

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Act five, time to play your own game.

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I don't think play means not caring.

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I think play is what becomes possible when you stop confusing fear with seriousness.

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Because I think for a long time, I thought that I was being mature when I was just being scared.

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Scared to look stupid, scared to be misunderstood, scared to try and have people see me trying.

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Children play because they don't yet believe that every mistake they make is a referendum on who they are.

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Adults stop playing because we're so obsessed with the idea of being perceived correctly.

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We would rather be impressive than curious.

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We would rather be safe than alive.

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We would rather have a perfect plan than an interesting life.

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And I think that is such a tragic trade because the people

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that I admire the most are never the ones that never lose.

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They're the ones that stay in motion.

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The ones who try strange things.

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The ones who let themselves be beginners the ones that understand

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that embarrassment is sometimes the entry ticket to a new level of the game.

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So I started to try to change the rules.

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Instead of asking, did I fail?

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What skill did this unlock?

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And I know this is slightly cringe, but maybe that's part of the entire point.

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I don't have that neat of a conclusion to this because I'm still very much in the game.

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I still want things.

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I still want success.

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I still want money.

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I still want to be admired.

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All these thing that everyone wants.

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But I'm starting to notice when my ambition starts turning me into someone that I don't like.

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I'm trying to notice when I am performing, when I could be playing, when I'm trying to win a game,

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when I never really wanted the prize to begin with.

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And I think that's the whole thing.

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Not quitting the game, not pretending that you don't care, but just pausing every once in a while and asking yourself, who made the rules?

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What am I trying to prove?

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And And what would I do if I remembered that I was allowed to play?

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Because I don't think I want a life where the prize is looking like I won.

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I think I want a life where the prize is that I got to play.

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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “i wish i realized this sooner”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: prize, test, felt, self. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 159개와 단어 1721개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 9:14입니다. 화자는 분당 약 186단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 84%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어	발음	뜻
impressive 형용사	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	인상적
scare 동사	/skɛɚ/	놀래키다
admire 동사	/ədˈmaɪɹ/	존경하다, 감탄하다
rejection 명사	/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/	거절
dramatic 형용사	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	극적
correctly 부사	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	정확(正確)히
meaningful 형용사	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	유의미(有意味)하다
mechanic 명사	/mɪˈkænɪk/	정비공, 기계공
curious 형용사	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	호기심이 많은, 궁금하다
skill 명사	/skɪl/	기술, 스킬
conclusion 명사	/kənˈkluːʒən/	종결
nowhere 부사	/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/	아무데도
discover 동사	/dɪˈskʌvə/	발견하다
connect 동사	/kəˈnɛkt/	잇다, 연결하다
chip 명사	/t͡ʃɪp/	칩

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어	발음	뜻
come back 동사		돌아오다
come out 동사	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	나오다

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:

You're stuck in the game.
If I failed, it meant that I wasn't talented.
It tells you what doesn't work.
Instead of asking, did I fail?
What am I trying to prove?

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형	영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	is broken · can be summarized · can be flattened
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	haven't unlocked · haven't stopped
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보	ones who try · ones who let

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, I'm, didn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 43번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

“sh”와 “zh” 소리: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, referendum /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: meaningful /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/, outfit /ˈaʊtfɪt/, trophy /ˈtɹoʊfi/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, fatal /ˈfeɪ.təl/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/, vulnerability /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/
/z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, pause /pɔːz/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, summarize /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, impressive, scare, admire 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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