쉐도잉 연습: stop 'getting through' life. start living it. - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

There are now an extraordinary number of ways to discover you're doing perfectly ordinary things.

Incorrectly.

You can wake up at what seems like a reasonable hour and find out you've already missed the ideal window for sunlight.

You can make breakfast and discover that while the breakfast itself is fine, you've eaten it in the wrong order.

Yes, there's apparently a right order.

Going for a walk sounds innocent enough until someone explains that you should really be walking faster, or slower, or possibly uphill.

Even breathing has become suspicious.

There are people on the internet who would like to help you breathe better, sleep better, stand better, think better, and, somewhat ominously, age better.

You can improve your jawline while you sleep, optimize your shower.

Apparently there's even a correct way to sit down now.

I haven't looked into that one.

I need somewhere to draw the line.

The funny thing is, most of this advice is probably well -intentioned.

Some of it is useful.

Some of it might actually make your life better.

But taken together, it creates a pretty strange impression.

That being a person is something you could be better at.

This idea has become unusually literal lately.

Everything is being maxed.

Sleep maxing, looks maxing, health maxing.

The suffix can apparently be attached to almost any part of human existence and immediately make it sound competitive.

I'm waiting for lunch maxing, although I suspect we're already doing it and calling it protein.

What interests me isn't really the word.

The word will eventually disappear, as words do, when enough parents start using them correctly.

The instinct underneath it is much older.

We like improving things.

More specifically, we like the feeling that something can be improved.

Because improvement gives you somewhere to go.

There's a satisfying logic to it.

Identify the problem, make an adjustment, and, as a result, become slightly better.

This works beautifully for many things it's less straightforward

when the thing being optimized is a human being

because optimization requires a problem

and before you can improve something you have to find something wrong with it do

that to yourself often enough and you can become remarkably skilled at spotting everything in you

and your life that could use some work ask someone how they're doing

and it's remarkable how quickly the conversation can turn into everything

they should probably be doing better someone can tell you they're sleeping eight hours, exercising regularly, and eating reasonably well,

and somehow the conversation still has the tone of confession.

I really need to start stretching.

Of course, the stretching.

We forgot the stretching.

There's always one more thing standing between you and having finally done yourself correctly.

Maybe you should meditate.

You could certainly drink more water.

You haven't read enough lately.

By the way, how's your posture?

I'm talking to you.

Did you just sit up straighter?

There.

I've ruined sitting for you.

This is what I mean.

It happened so quickly that we barely noticed the assumption underneath it.

Wherever you currently are, there's probably a slightly better version available.

And I like better.

That's what makes this complicated.

I have ambitions, really big ones, and I don't really want to cure myself of them.

I think wanting things is a wonderful thing.

There are projects worth becoming temporarily unreasonable about and skills worth spending years getting better at.

But surely ambition needs a little jurisdiction.

Surely it doesn't also need breakfast.

There's another problem with all this improving, which is that nobody seems to know when it's finished.

This is easier with certain things.

If you're painting a wall, eventually the wall is painted.

If you're assembling a bookshelf, at some point it either resembles a bookshelf where you've made a very expensive pile of wood.

But what does finish look like when the project is you?

There's no obvious moment when you've slept enough, exercised enough, become interesting enough, or finally achieved the correct relationship with your phone.

The finish line has an annoying habit of moving as you approach it.

You start exercising because you want to feel better.

Then you feel better, which is great, except now you could be stronger.

You start reading more, and before long you're keeping track of how many books you've read, at which point somebody casually mentions they've read 52 this year

and suddenly what was once a book has become a disappointing statistic.

This is one of the more impressive things about humans.

Give us an improvement and we can turn it into a baseline almost immediately.

Maybe that's why satisfaction has started to feel so damn suspicious.

To be satisfied with something sounds dangerously close to no longer having plans for it.

Even saying, I'm pretty happy with myself, can feel oddly boastful.

You want to add something afterward, like, mostly, for now.

Obviously, there are things I'm working on.

There.

Much better.

We seem more comfortable with ourselves when there's a renovation underway.

And I understand that.

Wanting more has moved people across oceans.

It's made art and businesses in extremely tall buildings.

Dissatisfaction can be enormously useful.

But useful isn't the same as something you want running 24 hours a day.

A smoke alarm is useful, but I wouldn't want one providing general commentary.

I don't think you would either.

At some point, there has to be a difference between seeing possibility in yourself and treating yourself like you're perpetually behind schedule.

Satisfaction doesn't have to mean you've run out of ambition.

Maybe you're just allowed to occasionally look at something in your life without immediately reaching for a wrench.

because there's a point at which improving your life begins to interfere with the rather important business of living it.

You get through the morning routine so you can start work, get through work so you can exercise, get through exercise so you can make dinner, get through dinner because there's something you want to watch.

Then suddenly you're doing your sleep routine

because tomorrow you'd like to be exceptionally good at waking up and somehow another day has been successfully processed.

That's the part I find unsettling.

We keep trying to save time, organize things so they'll be faster, develop routines so we don't have to think,

and listen to podcasts and voice notes at one and a half speed because apparently even people's sentences are taking too long.

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And whenever we manage to save some time, we immediately give it another job.

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It never seems to remain saved.

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I've never heard anyone say, I became much more efficient at email and now every afternoon I stare out the window.

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No, we found 17 minutes.

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Obviously, we put something in it.

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Maybe that's why good enough makes people nervous.

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It sounds suspiciously like a person has stopped trying.

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We hear good enough and imagine resignation, standard slipping, and someone eating beans directly from the tin.

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Which, depending on the hour, might just be efficient.

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But there has to be a difference between giving up and deciding that something doesn't require further improvement.

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I don't need every part of my life operating at peak performance.

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In fact, I'm not entirely sure I want to know what peak performance looks like in several areas.

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Friendship, for example.

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What would an optimized friendship even be?

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You could probably make it more efficient.

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Have an agenda and circulate notes afterward.

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See each other for exactly 73 minutes because research recommends that's when the marginal friendship returns begin to decline.

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Nobody wants this person.

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And yet we increasingly bring that same little managerial instinct into experiences that become strange the moment they're measured too closely.

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Fun is the obvious one.

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Ask somebody who's laughing whether they're having fun and watch them briefly stop having it to find out.

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Sleep does something similar.

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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the more absurd the entire process becomes.

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There are things that seem to require a certain amount of neglect in order to work, which is inconvenient for those of us who like to interfere i wonder

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if this has something to do with why time seems to move

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so quickly now we're always trying to get something over with

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the email the workout the commute wednesday wednesday hasn't done anything wrong

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but apparently we'd really like to get through that too

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finish this start

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that use the gap between the two to answer something you can make an entire day run beautifully

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and then it's over do you see the danger in becoming extremely efficient at getting through your own life?

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Because presumably getting through it wasn't the objective.

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Well, nobody mentioned that in the brochure.

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I don't think the answer is to abandon self -improvement.

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That sounds exhausting in its own way.

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You'd have to become very committed to not improving, and before long there'd probably be a podcast about it.

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Then we'd call it lazy maxing, and somehow I'd find out I was doing that wrong too.

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I think I'm more interested in leaving certain things alone, allowing some parts of life to remain completely unimpressive.

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You should be able to waste an afternoon without later discovering it was actually restorative.

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Maybe you watched a comfort film in the middle of the day.

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You learned nothing.

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Your cortisol remains whatever cortisol is supposed to be.

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You are no better equipped to face the week ahead.

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You watched The Parent Trap again.

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That was the afternoon.

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We're very suspicious of wasted time for people who regularly spend 40 minutes deciding what to watch

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and maybe waste is the wrong word anyway you can waste an afternoon

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and remember it for 20 years you can use an afternoon extremely well

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and have absolutely no recollection of it the following week

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which one was wasted i don't know but i think it's worth asking

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because there's a possibility hiding inside all of this self -improvement

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you could become healthier more efficient better read better rested and exceptionally well hydrated and still somehow miss your own life.

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You were there, of course.

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You were just busy taking notes on how the whole thing could have gone better.

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At some point, you should be allowed to stop taking notes and just live.

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No maxing required.

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Oh, hey, you made it to the end.

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Congratulations on your attention span.

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Seriously, bravo.

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If you want more of this sort of thing, the essays are available in printed form as well as a digital version if you prefer reading,

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or listening if you're one of the surprisingly large number of people who enjoys my voice for reasons I'll never fully understand.

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And if you're writing something of your own, the writing outline systems I use for books, film, and TV are there too.

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Everything's at theashfiles .com.

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Now, go and make something.

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And thank you for watching.

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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “stop 'getting through' life. start living it”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 164개와 단어 1813개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 10:24입니다. 화자는 분당 약 174단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 단어의 85%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
efficient 형용사	/ɪˈfɪʃənt/	효율적인
discover 동사	/dɪˈskʌvə/	발견하다
friendship 명사	/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/	우정, 우의
routine 명사	/ɹuˈtin/	일과, 루틴
stretch 동사	/stɹɛt͡ʃ/	당기다, 늘이다
ambition 명사	/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/	야망, 야심
breathe 동사	/bɹiːð/	숨쉬다, 호흡(呼吸)하다
correctly 부사	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	정확(正確)히
satisfaction 명사	/sætɪsˈfækʃən/	만족
podcast 명사	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	팟캐스트
satisfy 동사	/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/	만족시키다
interfere 동사	/ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/	방해하다, 간섭하다
instinct 명사	/ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/	본능
exceptionally 부사	/ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/	예외적으로
complicated 형용사	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	복잡하다

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어	발음	뜻
give up 동사		항복하다
sit down 동사		앉다
wake up 동사	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	눈뜨다, 일어나다

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

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

I haven't looked into that one.
What interests me isn't really the word.
You haven't read enough lately.
By the way, how's your posture?
Did you just sit up straighter?

이 영상의 문법

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

문형	영상 속 표현
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	you've already missed · you've eaten · has become
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	being maxed · be attached · can be improved
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보	improving, which is · better, which is · work, which is

주의할 발음

화자는 you're, don't, I'm 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 55번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

“th” 소리: breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
“sh”와 “zh” 소리: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, objective /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, bravo /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/
/z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, lazy /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/

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, efficient, discover, friendship 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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