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It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.
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And these people, they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.
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They understand the power that this has.
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They know what they can do with it.
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Have no conscientiousness about it.
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How is social media making us dumber?
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And do you think brain rot is a real disease?
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i've noticed it in myself so
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if i can notice something in myself i don't have to feel like i'm superior to everyone else
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and it makes me understand what people are going through
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and i've noticed in myself levels of distraction that i didn't have before and so i for instance
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instagram now only in the last three or four years have i started really paying attention to Instagram.
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And the feed is unbelievable.
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You know, these videos are addicting.
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They're amazing.
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Animals, comedians, you know, exercises that you didn't know about, things like that, products.
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And you get addicted and you watch more and more of them.
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And it cuts off your ability to focus deeply on something
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because your mind is split up into 30 second little bits here
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and there and and there and there and there
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and i realized the reason it works is
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because it operates on your emotions it's not a conscious cognitive thing
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they know how to operate on your emotions they know what hooks you things
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that are pleasant things that are entertaining things that make you angry things
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that are informing you of something
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that you never thought of before they hit your emotions and they hit the most vital emotion of all, which is loneliness.
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You feel like you're a part of something.
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You're not so alone, right?
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Okay, you're in some kind of virtual community.
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But the human brain was designed for focus.
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That's our power.
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That is our superpower.
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It's what made us who we are.
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The fact that unlike an animal, and believe me, I think animals are incredibly intelligent, but they're always distracted.
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They're always looking around.
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Where's the predator coming next?
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When am I going to get eaten?
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You know, how do I protect myself?
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Where do I get food?
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We develop the ability to be able to be safe, first of all, and then to focus deeply on things like a rock
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that we can now turn into a weapon or a tool, right?
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Our brains developed out of our ability to focus without distractions for a minute, for two minutes, for five minutes for 30 minutes
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when our ancestors tracked large game in order to hunt
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and kill them they had to focus for hours and days tracking
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that game that's what developed the human brain that's how we're able to write books create music design buildings
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that don't fall down build things create things that are beautiful that are useful these constant distractions,
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these constant sense of what are other people doing that I'm not doing,
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what am I missing, is continually breaking that focus.
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It's like a circuit.
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The circuit is being short -circuited, you know, 20 times in the space of a couple minutes.
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Whereas if that two minutes where you're like getting all these little bits of feedings from your social media,
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If you were to take those two minutes and focus on a problem, focus on yourself, focus on your life, something very different would be happening.
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So it is literally deteriorating our brains.
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It is literally diminishing and neutralizing the power of the human brain.
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And I don't say that from a position of superiority in judgment because I see it in myself.
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I see it and I understand it very deeply.
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And it's very human and these people who are programming us, and they are literally people who are programming us with their algorithms.
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They understand the power that this has.
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They know what they can do with it.
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And they completely have no conscientiousness about it.
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They take no responsibility for what they're doing to young people in their brains
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and how young people can't read a book anymore.
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They can't go through a 300 -page book
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because it's too long they're too distracted right they can't write an essay anymore
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because well they can get ai now to write the essay for them
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but and once again i'm not preaching i understand it
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if i were 20 years old growing up in this world i would be like
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that and it's already infecting me but it is rotting our brains and Anybody who argues against that, I don't know.
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I mean, the evidence I think is overwhelming that this is actually happening.
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But I wrote in my book, Mastery, literally it's a manual about how the human brain operates.
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And it's based on science and studies.
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And I'm showing you that this is the brain that we all inherited.
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And we are literally now in the process of trying to rewire our brains in a way that is not human,
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is not effective, is not powerful.
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and as far as the mechanism that makes us distracted
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and kind of takes us away from our roots of being
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able to focus on problems for an extended period of time is it just
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we're not built to experience all these different emotions back to back so quickly
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or is it all these different novel dopamine stimuli like what is it exactly well as i said it's emotion based
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so if it were just thoughts and ideas if they were just posts about plato and nietzsche and philosophy
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and you know all that stuff wouldn't have the power that it has we'd be able to control it
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In fact, we probably wouldn't be very interested in it.
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But because it plays on our emotions, we have to pay attention.
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And because we are, we think of ourselves as rational beings, but we are really emotional beings to the core.
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And we have very deep, rich emotions, and they play on those emotions.
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And when you get something that excites you, you see on your feed, something that excites you, you can't ignore it and and
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and it becomes an addiction you go down this hole so
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so people are getting addicted to like experiencing a bunch of emotions essentially I guess you could put it
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that way they're addicted to the experience of being taken outside of their day -to -day life
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and into this alternate realm where everything is interesting right okay
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so I love animals that's like one of my passions and I see, I don't really do TikTok, so I'm mostly on Instagram.
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And I know there's a whole bunch of other things that people are, Instagram's kind of passe probably.
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But I noticed there's like things about elephants or about tigers.
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Gee, I can't ignore that.
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They're so well done.
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They're so interesting that I have to watch it, right?
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And then now that I've watched one of them, now 10 of them suddenly appear.
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They flood.
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I noticed, like I started, I'm trying to like get my posture better because of my stroke.
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I saw one of post about how to correct your shoulders and loosen them up.
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And now hundreds of them.
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And I have to watch them because I'm something I'm interested in.
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They know how to hook you.
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They know how to, you're addicted to the experience of social media itself, of being entertained, diverted, distracted.
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I think that's the source of it.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Social Media is Warping Your Mind”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: brain, emotion, focus. Deze video bevat 106 zinnen en 1254 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:18. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 151 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| emotion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | emotie |
| addict zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | verslaafde |
| distract werkwoord | /dɪˈstɹækt/ | afleiden |
| distraction zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | afleiding |
| ignore werkwoord | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | negeren |
| hook zelfstandig naamwoord | /hʊk/ | haak |
| essay zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | essay, opstel |
| algorithm zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | algoritme |
| entertain werkwoord | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | vermaken, amuseren |
| argue werkwoord | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | redetwisten |
| superior bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | superieur |
| passion zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpæʃən/ | passie, hartstocht |
| essentially bijwoord | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | essentieel |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | hoewel, terwijl |
| vital bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈvaɪtəl/ | levens- |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| fall down werkwoord | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | neervallen |
| go down werkwoord | afdalen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How is social media making us dumber?
- You feel like you're a part of something.
- When am I going to get eaten?
- You know, how do I protect myself?
- Where do I get food?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is split · was designed · being taken |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who are · all, which is · Anybody who argues |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | i've noticed · I've watched |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 41 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, they're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: whereas /(h)wɛɹˈæz/, extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/, flood /flʌd/, cognitive /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, neutralize /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, argue /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/, tiger /ˈtaɪɡə/, cognitive /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als emotion, addict, distract.
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