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Hello and welcome for this episode at the house.
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I hope you are well and that you have taken care of you since the last time we got in the ears.
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The last week there, there was no episode because I had planned to make you a story time episode on my marathon,
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but it was annuling last minute, the week of the race.
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So I didn't want to record an episode for you, without really thinking and doing something, and to complete a void.
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So I thought we would wait for the next week
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And we are here for an episode on the notion of pleasure
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And on the fact of losing pleasure in the things that we do in life
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That's what our passions, relationships, habits, hobbies, objectives that we have
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Because it's true that I think growing up, I've lost a bit of a flame and an étincell On certain things that I could do,
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on certain things that I could do
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I have a lot of put it on the ground and said that somehow we can't always do what we love,
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that everything can't always be a part of pleasure and
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that we have to know how to do things even when it's not what we wanted, even if it's not exactly what we wanted.
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And I think
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that I have a lot of received this excuse in my head on all these little things of my life, whether it be on my objectives,
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on my passions, on my relationships, saying that if I don't take pleasure to do that, it's just because it's life and it's like that.
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I think there is much more behind and
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that it is much easier to say that it is just
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because we grow
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and we take less pleasure to do all these things rather than there is a real reason behind
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and that it is between our hands and our actions daily
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and the way we talk and how we manage certain things
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that has direct impact on the pleasure that we can take
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and it is true
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that recently I have been asked a lot of questions about the pleasure in everything
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that I've been in my career in my goals, in my relationships, etc. In terms of what I've learned in my life,
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I don't think I'm never considered a perfectionist.
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In the contrary, I'm the last to have an attention to detail.
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I'm the least perfectionist who exists.
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But one of my biggest mistakes, I think that I have a lot of expectations towards myself.
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I always expect to have some results, I always expect to achieve some things in a certain way.
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And I think that these expectations towards myself are sometimes very beneficial
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because they have allowed me to do excellent things in my life
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and to achieve incredible goals and to achieve things that make me happy and which are super cool for me.
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But I think there are also moments where these expectations
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that I put on my shoulders and that I feel are the center of many things that I do,
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I can't take this pleasure in things that I take into my life, in my habits, in my passions, in my career, in my relationships.
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When we have a lot of expectations in ourselves and we can't always fill them all the time,
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even if we wait for ourselves to always respond to these things that we have in mind,
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It's a vicious circle of eternal satisfaction because it doesn't stop.
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Once you've reached some expectations, you have others who are going to place.
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And in fact, these expectations, for me, have taken a lot of place, and I think there's a lot of place,
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I think, in what I do in my life and what I do in my life.
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And I've been asked this question in the moment, to ask if it's not my fault, if I don't have too much expectations in my life.
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I was talking about an article on Substack, which was talking about this notion of pleasure.
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A woman, I don't know her name, but she mentioned the writings and research of Natalie Goldberg.
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And she called it
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What is keeping us from pleasure?
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What is what retient us to take pleasure?
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It's an anagramme of pleasure.
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P -L -E -A -S -U -R -E Each letter of pleasure is related to a notion
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that retains us to take pleasure in our lives.
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Whether in our work, in our hobbies, in our relationships, in our habits,
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in all these things what is what really retient us at the prise of pleasure
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and the fact of to aim and to take pleasure at what we do.
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The first thing that we retient in life to take pleasure is obviously for the P, the perfectionism.
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And she calls it, I need to be brilliant all the time, dès que I do something.
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This is obviously impossible.
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We never would expect someone in front of us to be 100 % perfect
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and brilliant at each thing he or she entreprend.
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And the perfectionism, I think it's natural that we want to do the things the most perfectly possible.
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In fact, I think I think today we have
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so much access to success and perfection through everything we consume
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and clicking on a button and out a thing from our pocket each minute of the day,
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each second of the day that we wait to arrive at this level of perfectionism.
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But I think it's quite logical
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that perfectionism comes completely against pleasure in the actions of life
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because it takes a lot of place because
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when we want to be perfect it's going to eat
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and it makes us forget everything else we just want to do everything to perfection.
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But the problem with perfectionism is that it empires everything to do completely natural and logical.
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It is to say that to grow in a relationship, to improve in any hobby, to evolve in your work,
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in your knowledge, etc. You have to learn, and to learn, you have to repeat,
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you have to fail, you have to learn from what we do of what we do well, we have to know.
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to not be perfect for just to improve or to learn more.
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And I think that sometimes even if I lack a bit of perfectionism in what I do in my life,
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I'm still happy to not be blocked by doing things that I like, just because I know that I'm not perfect at what I do.
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And where it comes from with the notion of pleasure, it's that there are maybe a lot of things we want to do,
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like dance, dance, theater, whatever, maybe artistic thing we want to test, but we say that I'm not brilliant and I'm not brilliant until I start,
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so I don't want to do it because I know I'm null.
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And this notion of perfectionism
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and this research of perfectionism in each aspect of our lives can prevent us from doing things
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that could potentially bring a lot of pleasure.
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Then, for the second letter, the L, it talks about legitimacy.
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It explains it as, I'm not this person.
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At first I didn't understand what she wanted to say, but when we think about it,
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let's take an example of someone who wants to go into a sport, who would like to go in a jump course,
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and who would like to go in a semi -marathon, but this person has this problem of legitimacy where she says I'm not a sportsman,
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I'm not a sportsman, I can't do that I don't know who I am
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and I think that I had a lot of
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that at the time but I didn't have been a sportsman or I didn't have been a sportsman I can't do that,
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I don't know, it's not me I was told that we're all out of a mom we're all out of someone
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everyone is becoming someone everyone is becoming who he is everyone
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in growing is becoming a mosaics of everything who he is going to happen,
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a mosaics of all the people he has met a mosaïque of all the things that he interested, all the things that he decided to work,
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to push, on which he decided to grow, to educate.
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Maybe today we are not exactly these people who think are legitimate to do things, because we have given an ideal and we think
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that everyone who does this thing has this type of character
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or this type of habit in his life and that we don't.
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But in reality, everyone can become who they want to become.
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And the big problem today is that we really put people in categories, So when you look at any industry or even sport,
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when you look at the people who have been riding a marathon semi -marathon, no one has the same story.
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Maybe there are many people who have a little bit of predisposition
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and who have been doing a lot of athletes for a long time, but most people have a completely different story.
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Most people have started differently, at different times of their lives, for different reasons.
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There is no status quo, no way, no type, no profile of the type, everyone can do that and it's too much to put barriers like
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that and I'm the first to say I'm not an writer, I'm not an actress, I can't write books,
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I can say that, while in reality there are already so many things in our life, in our civilization that prevent us from doing things,
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that make us access to things more difficult.
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Why would we come to put the buttons in the chair while there are already so many buttons exist.
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We are legitimate to test everything in our lives, we have all our place here,
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we have all the right to test what we want to test.
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And I don't know, I read this article in my mind,
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it made me realize how to legitimize it takes place in this equation of action and pleasure.
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And it really gave me to be aware of how I speak, how I see, and what I say,
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and to really try to see and understand where I feel like I'm missing from legitimize.
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To remember that it's not the case, that I have my life in my hands, that I have my personal life in my hands,
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that I have my I have my daily life in my hands
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and that I have the capacity to model my life
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and to reconstruct this mosaic that I have completed and made that I am today.
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And I thought it was important to share it with you through this episode.
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The third point, the E, the pleasure, because it's the word in English, it's not the word in French.
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It talks about exhaustion, so that's how I feel.
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It reminds me of another quote that I love, which is you can never do it with someone who can enjoy it.
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When we do something to do something until we get to no longer power, we have pushed the ball too far.
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I'm going to go back to the course to pieds, but it's like when you say you want to prepare a marathon
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and you're at your third month of preparation and you don't even know what you're at, you're all given.
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And sometimes when you go too far, you lose this notion of pleasure because you're feeling to force it, because it's the case, and
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because there's a sense of courage of exhaustion really takes a lot of place at this moment in our lives.
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And it's very difficult sometimes to find this balance between doing what we love, but not doing too much, but not doing too much.
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Because sometimes I feel that when I try to listen and really slow on certain things,
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I feel that I lose the line and then I don't want to be as good as certain things, because I'm a bit content.
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and that I feel like I don't need to leave because if I leave,
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I will lose the film and I can be as well as it is.
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And again, my waiting is sometimes a bit of perfectionism, in fact, but it's very complicated, I think, to find this balance,
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especially when we talk about business, passion, etc. You can be a photographer and be too happy that doing the photo is your job and,
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therefore, you want to and accept all things, and at the end, and not sleep, and be exhausted of what you do,
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and so lose the notion of pleasure, it's super hard.
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And I think it's inevitable to fall on top of it at a moment.
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It's inevitable, sometimes, when you do something that you like, to want to do too much,
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and so to get exhausted and to lose the notion of pleasure.
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And I think that, in fact, it's a balance balance where you have to remove weight from one side, add another, find a balance.
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It's really personal to each other.
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There's not one person.
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I think we can't do a copy -and - paste on how other people manage their sports, their hobbies, their past -temps, their job, their relationship.
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There's no copy -and -coller possible because we have all different characters, we have all different receptors, different ways to feel different,
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different pleasure, we're all completely different on that.
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And I think it's really important to sometimes be able to
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break a little bit to understand where we are going too far and how we can find this balance between
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and not to do enough enough for not to get tired because this notion of disappointment comes to ruin the pleasure.
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And I think that sometimes it's the thing that really comes to gâchers the pleasure.
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And once we realize that it's just that we're doing too much and that it's removed the pleasure,
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it allows us to slow down a little bit and so to find the pleasure.
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And that's what happened recently when I prepared the marathon which was just annuling, which I talked about in the beginning of the episode.
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I was going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all, I'm going to do it at all,
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I'm going to do it at to remove the pressure,
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remove the things I had put in my time job through this desire to prepare me correctly and intensively
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and to find out, thanks to this soulagement of intensity and this soulagement of this exhaustion that I had felt, a huge pleasure and today,
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every day, I'm going to run for me,
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it's a pure pleasure it's a pure pleasure and I'm so happy to have removed this exhaustion and this challenge in trop,
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this weight that I put on my shoulders because it allowed me to find this pleasure
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Then in What is keeping us from pleasure, the letter is the A.
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It talks about avoidance, the fact of avoiding things.
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Sometimes we know very well that things will be good, will make us happy, will be sincerely and purely good,
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mechanically, chemically in our brain, but we find a way to do something and avoid this thing.
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The type of example that comes in my mind, For example, we know that there is a book that we love too much,
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that we want to read, that there is a book that we want to go on, that we want to go on,
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that we want to go on, that we want to go on, that we want to go on, that we want to go on,
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that we want to go on, that we want to go on.
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But we want to take the solution to facilitate, to avoid that with, for example, our phone or other things.
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I would say that it is sometimes unconscious, but it is purely, I think, unconscious.
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And this is what I mean by my episode on dopamine,
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which I can only recommend you to listen if you haven't listened is that today our brain is,
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with the networks, but also with the instantanity of life in general, we all attend very instantaneously,
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and so things that are sometimes natural or can do good for us, like for example, cooking a long dish,
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going to do sports, reading a book, it seems a lot too complicated to our brain
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because it gives us a pleasure which is too far compared to an instantanity, which is promised at the second level,
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It's to say that to look at a real real,
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it will give all of the dopamine to our brain compared to reading three chapters of a book, where it's in several pages,
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several minutes, or at the end of the lecture, we will take a lot of dopamine.
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I think that it's really a work to do very long, to realize what I'm trying to do in my life,
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why I'm trying to avoid it, and to try to arrange it.
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I think that it really requires a lot of conscience, a lot of introspection what I wanted to say is it's
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good to be a little to try to understand where it comes
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and what are those things that we avoid a little bit in our lives.
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Next, what's that brings us to pleasure ?
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We go to the S, she calls it the should, so the right.
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I should be working on something serious.
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I should work on something serious.
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It's like that she describes it.
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And I think that's the real thing, really, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I think of the life of many people in general,
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it's that we don't want to do things
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that we would like to do because we think
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that there are other things we should do in the place that are more serious or better seen in the society.
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In fact, I think we are so addicted to productivity today in our society
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that as soon as there is something that doesn't look productive but that will make us a lot of pleasure,
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we say that we shouldn't do it because there are things we could do more productive.
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It's like saying that I have too much to draw, that I have too much to draw this night,
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that I want to throw a piece of art for 3 hours on my stuff, but no, in fact, I should wash my linge,
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I should work at home on my table, I should do this, I should do that.
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It's more acceptable in terms of productivity in our society, because we have the impression that everything we have, in the 24 hours of our day,
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should be provided to productivity and to things that are productive.
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but I can't describe at which point in my life
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these moments where I relapse from these things that I should do something
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and that I accept to take my time to do nothing
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or to do something that is not at all productive or
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that have nothing to do with productivity are just the moments where I get the most,
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where I feel the best in my life are the moments where I am the most happy
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and where I am the most and it's not even for giving a reason to
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that I'm not even trying to tell you
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that you don't have to be productive because it's just that it's that you accord productivité.
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Non, ce n 'est pas du tout ce que je suis en train d 'essayer de dire.
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Justement, genre, ça se trouve ça va pas du tout vous apporter de la productivité, mais si ça vous apporte du plaisir,
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putain mais en fait c 'est normal.
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Genre, on devrait tous pouvoir prendre du plaisir dans notre vie
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sans culpabiliser pour avoir pris une demi -heure pour regarder un épisode Netflix.
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Il y a plein de choses qui pourraient nous rendre tellement
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heureux dans nos vies mais qu 'on s 'empêche de faire
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juste parce qu 'on a l 'impression que c 'est pas
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productif et que ça va pas nous apporter quelque chose dans notre vie.
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Genre, c 'est pas parce que tu vas pas vendre les bonnets que tu fais quand tu tricotes, que tu peux pas te mettre au tricot.
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Genre, c 'est pas parce que tu
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You can't sell your drawings or create a side hustle or create an Instagram account of your drawings that you can't design.
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It's not because you don't want to play in a theater theater
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or pass a casting for a pub that you can't just do theater or learn text.
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We're not obligated to monetize or hustle -ish, for a little bit of an English, to put productivity in everything we do.
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And I think that really, it's a flail in my life and in the lives of many people I think today.
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It's this need to be productive when we think about it, the dimanche has just been created like the day of the Lord,
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and I don't even put religion in it or what, it doesn't matter your religion, it doesn't matter what you believe or not in the God,
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the dimanche is supposed to be sacred, like nothing to do, and we managed to have the impression that we have to give absolutely everything,
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that we just have to do every second of our time, to make productive money and stuff,
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but no, not really, and I think I'm the first who should work on it.
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I'm so part of these people who do not work on it, not to want to optimize and to productize it, even if it's a term,
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I don't know it's not a term.
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I have the right and we have the right to do things for pure pleasure, for no desire to do what else to do.
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And it should be okay and we should not want to want it
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because I think that just to want it is a vicious circle which makes it even worse.
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The next one, the U of pleasure, she called it the unworthiness, So the fact that we don't deserve something.
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I don't deserve something.
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I think it's a lot of reference to the syndrome of the impostor.
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We don't take pleasure to certain things when we feel like we don't have enough work to do it.
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And I think it's a lot of this notion of productivity that I mentioned before.
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And even of legitimacy that I mentioned before is
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that we have put in the context of the types of people who do or who do what we want.
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And I think
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that sometimes this syndrome of the imposter can take a lot of place in the pleasure
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because when you have the impression of having less worked or having less deserved something, you have the impression of being,
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excuse my term, but being a bastard of appreciating something
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because we don't deserve it and
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because there are people who need to work a lot or because there are people who don't have it, so we don't have it,
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etc. I think that it's really something on which we can work and maybe a little more niche, maybe not many people feel that.
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It's super hard to know who deserves and who doesn't deserve, because it's super subjective.
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And it's not because there's someone who works a little less, but who doesn't deserve it,
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maybe she works differently, maybe there's other things that happened, we can't know.
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And it's not because we're not exactly in a persona that we don't deserve these things in our lives, just simply.
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And I find it so sad to say, I don't deserve this thing that makes me happy and makes me happy.
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I don't say that to someone I love.
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I never say to my partner, you don't deserve this thing, you don't deserve this thing, you don't deserve this thing, you don't deserve this thing,
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you don't deserve this thing, you don't deserve this thing, you don't deserve this thing.
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You don't deserve this thing.
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You don't deserve this thing.
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I never say that to someone I love, I never say that to a friend, I never say that to someone you don't deserve this thing.
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So you won't be happy because you don't deserve it.
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It's a lie to say that you don't deserve something that will make you happy.
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Everyone deserves to be happy.
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The last letter, the R of pleasure is rules.
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It has to.
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Sometimes we don't take pleasure to do things because we have the impression
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that we need to go perfectly in a hole or that we need to do exactly the same way.
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And it's sometimes related to perfectionism.
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It's to say, for example, if you want to launch into the content creation, imagine.
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And you say, yes, but people do this, they post like that, they talk like that, they talk like that, they do this kind of videos.
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I have to do that.
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because you will just copy what exists, you will just not do anything at all, you will just do things because you need to do things,
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and you will just do things like that because it's like that it's done and that it's...
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It's absolutely necessary that I do this phrase at the beginning, or that I say it like that, or that I put this music,
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that it's like that it works and that I do post
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so frequently and that I do put such videos or such photos,
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or that I do put such stories because it's like that it's done and that everyone does things like that.
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You will just not take pleasure.
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We must follow rules in our lives, in our daily lives, in how we talk to people, how we are in the street,
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our staff etc. There are rules to follow, in life it's like that.
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So why are we, in things where we don't need rules, where we can remove rules, we don't do it?
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Why do we not just leave ourselves completely free of how we do things, how we say things, how we present things,
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our creativity, our spirit, our knowledge, our hands, our actions? why would we not leave this possibility of discovering?
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Because I think that all the things
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that I have brought the most pleasure in my life are things that I have left to discover, that I have left to imagine,
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that I have left to create, and that are coming from me,
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from my deepest, and that have been sincere and authentic in my life and in my creation.
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And I think that the times where I was a bit affrontée, I don't know if I can say it like that,
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affranchie, that's what I want to say, where I was affranchised of the rules and of what I thought of being the way to do things,
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were the times where I was the most happy, because I left myself being myself and I left myself discovering things.
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And finally, last letter, it's the E, external audience, the external audience.
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She called it what people will think.
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So what people will think.
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And I think there is nothing more human than to stop doing
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or not doing things because we think too much about the eyes of others and what people will think about us.
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When we grow up, we don't stop talking about certain passions we have
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because we have fear that people will judge who we are, because we have fear that people will see who we are,
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because we have fear that people will see who we are, or say something or think something because we have fear that they are wrong seen,
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wrong perceived, wrong interpreted, or that we have fear of following some dreams or will just
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because we have the impression that it will appear to some way to other people.
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In this external audience, there is really the way to think about what the others will think,
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but also the way to think about how to do it well because there are people who will look.
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And the two me make so much worse because at the end of the day,
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there is only that we are going to spend our lives with us.
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I don't want to live my life for someone else.
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I want to live a life that corresponds to someone else, for someone else, in the regard of someone else.
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It's a terroristic thing to say that I could
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or could make things happen because I have taken too into someone else in my life or an audience of external viewers.
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I think it's super human to control what people think of us through our actions and how we can be in sport,
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etc. It's completely human and I think it's normal.
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But it doesn't not have to prevent us from doing things that make us happy and prevent us from doing pleasure.
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I think when we feel pleasure in a hobby, in a relationship, in a job, in whatever whatever we do in our lives,
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we shouldn't try to find other reasons to do it.
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To take pleasure should be enough to continue to do something.
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We shouldn't look further.
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In any case, I hope this episode you enjoyed, I hope it talks about it as it has been mentioned,
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I hope you learned something as I learned as much as I learned through this article and this thought of Natalie Goldberg.
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I love you very much, and I say to you next week!
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Bye!
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B21
164 sentences
Throw Away These 4 Things For A Peaceful And Fulfilled Life | Over 60 | Sandra Hart
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
348 sentences
I really need to stop taking life so seriously
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Pourquoi je n’aime plus ce que j’aimais ?”. This video has 329 sentences and 5146 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:16. The speaker talks fast, about 221 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| notion noun | /ˈnoʊʃən/ | Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept. |
| impression noun | /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ | The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another. |
| productive adjective | /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ | Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile. |
| expectation noun | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| marathon noun | /ˈmæɹəθən/ | A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race. |
| productivity noun | /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/ | The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient. |
| passion noun | /ˈpæʃən/ | A true desire sustained or prolonged. |
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| theater noun | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on. |
| habit noun | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | An action performed on a regular basis. |
| genre noun | /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/ | A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. |
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| legitimacy noun | /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/ | The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity. |
| mosaic noun | /moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/ | A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture. |
| complicated adjective | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | Difficult or convoluted. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| slow down verb | To decelerate. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I don't think I'm never considered a perfectionist.
- I'm the least perfectionist who exists.
- What is keeping us from pleasure?
- What is what retient us to take pleasure?
- Next, what's that brings us to pleasure ?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been riding · have been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have taken · I've lost · have been asked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | Substack, which was · someone who wants · people who think |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | have been asked · I've been asked · be blocked |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 137 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: notion /ˈnoʊʃən/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
- Long words — get the stress right: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, legitimacy /ləˈd͡ʒɪtɪməsi/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like notion, impression, productive.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.