쉐도잉 연습: Why being bored is a good thing - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Boredom.
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A state of being that's gotten a pretty bad rap over the years.
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But as I'm continuously trying to navigate this super connected world we're now living in, the constant consumption of media has not only left me feeling pretty drained,
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but the more I think that being bored isn't such a bad thing.
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In fact, from a creative standpoint, it might actually be a really good thing.
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Just hear me out.
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I feel like we live in a very overstimulated world.
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And lately it feels like a little much.
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Changes to Instagram, a growing trend in the US.
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We're always being bombarded with information.
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From social media platforms, keeping up with the trends, what should we make and who should we watch.
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It's all here to keep us busy and scrolling.
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Jumping from one device to another and often not taking breaks for extended periods of time.
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to be entertained could turn into a life that's distracted.
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I sense that most people have encountered this at some point or another but lately just everything has been feeling like noise.
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Everything online is starting to look like a copy of one another
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and as someone who's caught between trying to make sense of it
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while also barely keeping up with the pace of the world, it can get a little...
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overwhelming.
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and I think it's affecting my creativity.
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you A while in my search for an antidote, there was one idea I became increasingly curious about.
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It started when I read Austin Kleon's book, "Steal Like an Artist." In the book, he says, "Take time to be bored.
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Creative people need time to just sit around
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and do nothing." I want to see what happens when I embrace this idea of boredom over the next couple of days.
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If there is any difference at all in the creativity, in my ideas.
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Did I need a detox?
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Did I not?
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Did I hate it?
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Was it useless?
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Just for an hour or two each day, how hard can that be?
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So it's day one and I went a good, I was doing good.
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I was doing good for the first two minutes, and then I just reached for my phone.
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out of habit.
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I'm literally purposely doing this experiment.
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The habit of just like picking up and checking our phones when we're literally doing nothing.
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crazy.
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So yeah, if that's a any indication how things are going.
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You see, an interesting thing happens when you're in a less stimulated state.
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Our minds are able to wander, to get creative with problem -solving, and let one storm in ideas find the space to plant roots and grow.
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Just like when we get our best ideas in the shower, or think of new characters for our book on our commute, our body goes on autopilot,
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and our minds go somewhere else.
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Being bored literally has to be laying around doing nothing.
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I think that it counts as washing the dishes and folding your laundry, going for a walk, normal mundane everyday things,
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just without reaching for your phone to help pass the time.
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It's interesting that boredom is not typically something that's pursued, but many of the world's problems are because there is just too much of everything.
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content.
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at least in the beginning.
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Okay, so I have been really enjoying this experiment so far.
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It's only been three days, but I feel like there is
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something about needing to fill the silence and also being alone with your thoughts it's almost It can be uncomfortable.
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It has just been really nice to not be living from screen to screen all the time
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and instead feeling like I'm living in the real world.
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It's also been really nice to just have the space to think, just allowing you to have that designated time.
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I know that sounds so weird because creativity is such an organic thing, but we live in such a busy world.
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Our schedules are often filled up from like hour to hour.
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This is also feeling a lot like a dopamine detox.
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Mainly because I'm doing this like every single day.
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Now that I'm doing this experiment, I'm realizing like how much it actually plays into my daily life.
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I think that the more society becomes obsessed with productivity, the more we need to search for small pockets of time to be bored.
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But it's not just about doing nothing, but I find it's more so choosing to be observant of the world around you every now and then.
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Being left to my thoughts without media and posts telling me how to feel.
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every time I need to fill the silence.
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but instead embracing it.
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Sometimes it feels like boredom can be one of the most undesirable states you can be in.
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We go so much out of our way to occupy our time with other work or projects, and maybe there are some things we can learn from it.
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Alright, so I've been doing this for about a week now.
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It got easier as the days went on.
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I started to embrace it more.
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It's been really interesting to see new ideas and also old ideas.
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Just ponderings that randomly have come up one
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or two hours every afternoon may not seem like a lot
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but I think that there's a real compound effect there to just be intentional with
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that time to embrace this boredom and this mundaneness and see what comes up from that.
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We often already have everything we need to think up new ideas or find inspiration around us.
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But I think it's a matter of really creating the time to facilitate that.
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Not too much and not too little of it, but just enough that when we do to our creative work we feel ready to.
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So this isn't really a solution or a groundbreaking discovery, but perhaps an alternate perspective on nurturing our creativity.
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As Steve Jobs once said, boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and out of curiosity comes everything.
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I've been on hold on baby with you.

이 레슨을 통해 배울 것

이 비디오는 "지루함이 좋은 이유"에 대해 이야기하며, 현대 사회의 과도한 자극과 창의성의 관계를 탐구합니다. 학습자는 유튜브 영어 공부를 통해 자연스러운 회화 표현을 익히고, IELTS 스피킹 준비에 도움이 되는 논리적 발화 구조를 연습할 수 있습니다. 특히 일상적인 주제를 다루는 이 영상은 영어 회화 연습에 적합하며, shadowing을 통해 발음과 리듬을 향상시킬 수 있습니다.

핵심 어휘 및 표현

  • overstimulated: 과도하게 자극받은 (예: "We live in a very overstimulated world.")
  • detox: 해독, 정화 (예: "Did I need a detox?")
  • mundane: 평범한, 일상적인 (예: "normal mundane everyday things")
  • autopilot: 자동 조작 모드 (예: "our body goes on autopilot")
  • antidote: 해독제, 대처법 (예: "in my search for an antidote")

연습 팁 (Shadowing 전용)

이 영상은 중간 속도로 발화되며, 자연스러운 톤과 많은 일상적 표현이 포함되어 있어 shadowing practice에 적합합니다. 다음과 같은 방법으로 연습하세요:

  • 속도 조절: 처음에는 0.75배 속도로 듣고 따라하세요. 발음과 리듬을 정확히 캐치한 후 원래 속도로 올리세요. 이는 shadowspeak나 shadowing site에서도 자주 권장되는 방법입니다.
  • 억양 모방: 화자가 "crazy"나 "overwhelming"과 같은 단어에서 강조하는 부분을 주의깊게 듣고, 같은 강도로 발음하세요. IELTS 스피킹에서 자연스러운 억양은 점수에 큰 영향을 미칩니다.
  • 반복 연습: "habit of just like picking up and checking our phones"와 같은 긴 문장은 여러 번 반복하여 흐름을 익히세요. 문장 구조를 이해하면 영어 회화에서 더 자유롭게 표현할 수 있습니다.

지루함을 주제로 한 이 영상은 생각을 정리하고 논리적으로 말하는 능력을 키우는 데 도움이 됩니다. 꾸준히 shadowing을 하면 발화 능력뿐만 아니라 듣기 이해력도 함께 향상될 것입니다.

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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