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Hey, slow down.

I got something to talk about for a minute.

I hate going to the grocery store.

It freaking sucks.

I do not come here because I have to.

I do come here because I have to.

Not because I want to.

It's become kind of a necessary evil.

I got to spend hours of my life coming here for my family.

But I've been challenging myself recently.

Instead of coming in here, flying in, trying to grab everything I need, check out, leave.

Can I slow down?

Kind of relax a little bit?

Peruse the aisles?

Maybe even enjoy myself?

I've been wearing earbuds to the store to try to make this happen.

I hate it when people are always wearing their AirPods out in public.

But I have bit the bullet because if you can shift into this gear,

you're shifting into the same gear as some of the people who have lived the longest in the world.

120 year old people.

And there's a name for this gear.

Harvard calls it slow living.

Slowing down to a very comfortable pace and being okay in the moment that you're in.

Taking it all in people who can do this can avoid all this stress and tension that comes with life sometimes.

And it turns out that stuff kind of kills you.

If you're stressed out all the time, your cells age faster, your DNA can get damaged.

Serious stuff.

And guess what?

Gene Calment, 122 years old.

Richard Overton, 112.

All these people that lived super long lives, They're smoking.

They're drinking.

But they're not letting stuff stress them out.

They let go of stuff.

So it might be worth asking yourself, when you're feeling rushed, could I slow down and enjoy this?

And you might be surprised when the trade -off isn't actually as bad as you thought it might be.

There's a great story about this.

A guy, Derek, he loved riding his bike.

He lived out in California by the coast

and there is this 15 mile loop right on the ocean that he would go to all the time.

And he kind of got in a habit of just hauling through this thing.

He knew it backwards and forwards.

He could do the whole thing in about 43 minutes.

But what starts to happen is then if he hits it longer than 43 minutes, he's a little bit like, ah man.

So one day he's going and he's tired.

He's kind of stressed out.

The idea of having to do this crazy

Thing he just doesn't have it in him.

So he's like, you know what today I don't care about the time.

I'm just gonna go at a pace that feels comfortable for me

So he's going he's a little bit more relaxed.

There's a dolphin jumping in the ocean

He looks up and there's a seagull flying over his head and it poops in his mouth apparently.

I don't know if that's true but that's what he says.

So that part's not good but he feels like he can just go forever.

This is great.

He kind of remembers his joy for cycling.

He looks down at his watch when he's done.

45 minutes.

Two minutes longer than his usual time.

he would just squeeze all the juice

he had in him go as hard as possible for four percent faster than today

and that is a lesson that he never forgot

and it makes me wonder could I relax

and get pretty much the same result I think that's true more often than we might think

that's what he called his blog article relax for the same result wrote

it in 2015 i'll link it my dad sent me

that i don't know

but the other thing is uh

you might be sacrificing a lot more than just stress by not slowing down enough

i had this manager at work his name was mcqueen

i'm just gonna call him that

because he likes going fast okay we had this project we're assigned

and he wants to get this thing done as fast as possible.

He wants to impress the CEO.

He knows he wants it done.

And he's like, we can just like...

Faster than fast, quicker than quick.

It's just the two of us.

I'm the one building it.

And I just kind of slapped this thing out.

And he's like, all right, let's go release it.

Send it out to production.

This is like software stuff.

And now, was everybody really impressed?

No, they hated it.

It broke immediately

and people were like what the heck is going on people are complaining

we're getting tickets coming in i have to spend more time fixing

this stupid thing than i did building it in the first place

i ended up having to answer for this in my performance review it was it was not good

and uh this is why the military has a mantra slow is smooth smooth is fast i think enough guys

messed stuff up severely.

You know, but if you take a step back, you can see your surroundings and make sure you're stepping in the right places.

You go to the grocery store, try to just get in and out as fast as possible.

You forget something.

And then halfway through the week, you have to come back and you had Cheetos for lunch.

So it might not be a bad idea to ask yourself, Could I slow down and not just get the same result,

but maybe a better one?

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That's true a lot of the time, I think.

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Now here's the deal.

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I love going fast, right?

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I like driving fast, exercising.

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There's times to do it.

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But when you're going fast, ask yourself, am I doing this because it's fun?

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Or am I going fast because I feel some kind of pressure?

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Am I stressed out right now?

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Is this fast fun or fear?

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That's what you should ask.

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Is it fast fun, fear, fight on fall?

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Now look, pressure is fun sometimes and stress has a purpose.

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It's also good sometimes.

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Push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations, but just remember that sometimes you have a choice in the matter.

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That's kind of the point, right?

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Slow down, enjoy your life, break less stuff, and live longer.

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Hopefully.

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You know.

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I'm sorry.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “How to live longer and make it suck less”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: fast, slow, stress. Deze video bevat 118 zinnen en 1065 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:26. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 143 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
relax werkwoord	/ɹɪˈlæks/	losmaken
distress zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	druk, stress
smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/smuːð/	vlot
impress werkwoord	/ɪmˈpɹɛs/	imponeren, indruk maken
rush werkwoord	/ɹʌʃ/	afraffelen
lesson zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlɛs.ən/	les
suck werkwoord	/sʌk/	zuigen
gene zelfstandig naamwoord	/d͡ʒiːn/	gen
juice zelfstandig naamwoord	/d͡ʒuːs/	sap
loop zelfstandig naamwoord	/luːp/	lus, strop
sacrifice zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	opoffering
bullet zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbʊlɪt/	kogel
habit zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	gewoonte
complain werkwoord	/kəmˈpleɪn/	klagen
tension zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɛnʃən/	spanning

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
slow down werkwoord		afremmen
check out werkwoord		onderzoeken
come back werkwoord		terugkomen
end up werkwoord		belanden, terechtkomen
look up werkwoord	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	opkijken
turn out werkwoord		uitvallen, resulteren

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Can I slow down?
It's just the two of us.
I'm the one building it.
That's true a lot of the time, I think.
Am I stressed out right now?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	people who have · people who can
Mogelijkheid met “might / may” might/may + werkwoord — iets is mogelijk maar niet zeker	might be · might think · might not be
Vergrotende trap -er than / more … than — twee dingen vergelijken	longer than · faster than · more often than
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — iets dat nu of in deze periode gebeurt	are always wearing · you're shifting · They're smoking

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 25 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: squeeze /skwiːz/, surroundings /səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/, backward /ˈbækwɚd/, earbud /ˈiɹ.bʌd/, peruse /pəˈɹuːz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/, slap /slæp/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gear /ɡɪɚ/, grocery /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/, seagull /ˈsiː.ɡʌl/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als relax, distress, smooth.

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?

Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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