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For most of my life, I thought life was a test.

Every decision, every person I dated, every year of my 20s, there was a right and a wrong answer.

Like, if I made the right moves, the right city, the right job, the right person, the right version of myself,

then one day, I'll finally pass.

But lately, I started to think that the whole frame is broken.

Maybe life was never a test.

I think life is a game.

Act 1.

Most people are playing a game they didn't choose.

I think the first game I ever learned to play was the college admissions game.

Be well -rounded, but also exceptional, but also impressive enough in a way that can be summarized in 650 words.

Super easy, right?

My entire childhood became this long, convoluted game that I never remembered agreeing to play.

Join this club, take this AP, volunteer here, become a full human being, but somehow still can be flattened into neat little bullet points.

I learned a lot.

I worked hard.

I became disciplined.

But the dangerous part by the game is when you start believing that the rules are reality.

When you start believing that the scoreboard is the truth.

And my scoreboard is very clear.

Get good grades means being a good person.

Good school means good future.

And rejection means you did something horribly wrong.

And when you believe that for long enough, you stop asking yourself what you actually want.

You're playing the game.

You're stuck in the game.

You just ask what will make it look like you're winning.

That was the first game I ever remembered to play.

The game of being impressive.

But the thing about the game of being impressive is that it never really ends.

You think it ends when you get into college.

No, no, no. Then it becomes internships, then jobs, then cities, then apartments, then relationships.

Then whether you're doing it by 22, 25, 40, this game never ends.

You always keep on playing.

My whole life, my whole childhood was built around getting into an Ivy League school.

That was the bare minimum extortation.

As a young person, you just feel like a failure.

Your parents immigrated here and put so much money into your education.

And for it to not pay off in the way

that they expected or for you to expect it is a tough thing to deal with.

And at that time, the Ivy League school was a trophy.

That was the proof.

That was the thing that I felt like I needed to feel that I'd done my childhood correctly.

So when I got rejected, it didn't just feel like a school didn't want me.

It felt like the whole game had ended game over test failed please restart your life

but what's funny is

that it's only after getting rejected from all these colleges did i start posting youtube videos it was only

because the door that i had worshipped for so long didn't open

that i started looking for a different one

i thought rejection was the end of my life not to be dramatic

or anything but it might have been the first time my life actually became mine.

Act two.

A game is different from a test.

I think this is why the difference between a test and a game matters.

A test has one correct answer.

A game has many strategies.

A test says don't mess up, but a game says learn the mechanics.

A test makes one wrong move feel like a failure.

A game makes wrong moves part of how you get better.

And when I thought that life was a test, every wrong move felt fatal.

If I failed, it meant that I wasn't talented.

If I changed my mind, it meant that I wasn't consistent.

But in a game, the wrong move isn't an identity.

It's information.

It tells you what doesn't work.

It tells you where the walls are.

It teaches you the map.

You don't play a game for the first time and expect yourself to immediately understand the world completely.

You wander around.

You press the wrong buttons.

You talk to random characters who maybe will matter later.

You enter rooms that lead nowhere.

And maybe life is more like that than we would like to admit.

Maybe some things don't make sense yet because you haven't unlocked the next level.

And that's the inspiring part.

Not that life is easy, not that rejection isn't hurt,

embarrassment isn't sting, or losing something that you really wanted makes you want to rot in bed and order a $30 salad.

Restarted, explored, and eventually mastered.

A test makes you freeze because any answer could be wrong.

A game lets you move because every move will teach you something.

But I think where life is a game gets dangerous is

when people hear it and they just think the point is to just win harder.

More money, more beauty, more status, more followers.

The problem is not that people treat life like a game.

The problem is that they never ask which game they're actually playing.

Because every game has a different prize.

The status game says the prize is being admired.

The beauty game says the prize is to be desired.

The comparison game says proving your life is better than everyone else's.

But there is another game, the life game.

And that game has completely different rules.

The prize is not being the most impressive person in the room.

The prize is making things that feel true.

And I think that's a game that I'm trying to play now.

Not because I don't care about success, trust me, I do.

But because I don't want to play meaningless games that lead me to meaningless prizes.

I don't think the goal is to stop playing games.

I think the goal is to choose a better one.

Act four, play is where the self comes back.

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So if the aliveness game has a different prize, it also has a different way of playing.

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And I think the mechanic is something we've all almost forgotten to do.

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Play.

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There is a psychiatrist named Stuart Brown who has this line that I haven't stopped thinking about.

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He says, the opposite of play is not work, it's depression.

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Like, okay, Stuart, I just said I had no hobbies.

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But I think what he means is that when you lose play, you lose vitality.

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You lose spontaneity.

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You lose a part of yourself that can be still surprised at your own life.

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There's another psychoanalyst, Winnicott, who wrote about the true self and the false self.

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He basically believed that play is where the real self comes out, that it is in playing that a person becomes creative,

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uses the whole personality, and discovers the self.

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The true self wants to walk all around Manhattan to try all of the chocolate chip cookie stores and rank them.

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The true self wants to make something meaningful and beautiful even if it doesn't necessarily make economic sense.

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And I think that's why YouTube started to feel different for me this year.

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Because on paper, pivoting into YouTube made almost no sense.

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It meant longer videos, more effort, less immediate money, more vulnerability.

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But it felt meaningful.

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It felt like I was playing again.

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Telling these stories connecting with you guys being able to write and share these thoughts feels like playing

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It doesn't feel like just making a 30 second tiktok about lip glosses or the outfit i'm wearing that day

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It feels Fun And I think for the first time in a

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while I felt like I wasn't just feeding into a machine

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I was truly making something something with a beginning middle and end something that I could put my brain inside my memories

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My thoughts my slightly dramatic inner monologue it ultimately felt like play.

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Act five, time to play your own game.

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I don't think play means not caring.

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I think play is what becomes possible when you stop confusing fear with seriousness.

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Because I think for a long time, I thought that I was being mature when I was just being scared.

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Scared to look stupid, scared to be misunderstood, scared to try and have people see me trying.

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Children play because they don't yet believe that every mistake they make is a referendum on who they are.

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Adults stop playing because we're so obsessed with the idea of being perceived correctly.

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We would rather be impressive than curious.

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We would rather be safe than alive.

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We would rather have a perfect plan than an interesting life.

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And I think that is such a tragic trade because the people

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that I admire the most are never the ones that never lose.

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They're the ones that stay in motion.

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The ones who try strange things.

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The ones who let themselves be beginners the ones that understand

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that embarrassment is sometimes the entry ticket to a new level of the game.

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So I started to try to change the rules.

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Instead of asking, did I fail?

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What skill did this unlock?

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And I know this is slightly cringe, but maybe that's part of the entire point.

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I don't have that neat of a conclusion to this because I'm still very much in the game.

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I still want things.

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I still want success.

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I still want money.

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I still want to be admired.

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All these thing that everyone wants.

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But I'm starting to notice when my ambition starts turning me into someone that I don't like.

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I'm trying to notice when I am performing, when I could be playing, when I'm trying to win a game,

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when I never really wanted the prize to begin with.

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And I think that's the whole thing.

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Not quitting the game, not pretending that you don't care, but just pausing every once in a while and asking yourself, who made the rules?

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What am I trying to prove?

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And And what would I do if I remembered that I was allowed to play?

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Because I don't think I want a life where the prize is looking like I won.

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I think I want a life where the prize is that I got to play.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «i wish i realized this sooner». Чаще всего повторяются слова: prize, test, felt, self. В этом видео 159 предложений и 1721 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 9:14. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 186 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 84% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
impressive прилагательное	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	впечатля́ющий, внуши́тельный
scare глагол	/skɛɚ/	пуга́ть, испуга́ть
admire глагол	/ədˈmaɪɹ/	восхища́ться, восторга́ться
rejection существительное	/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/	отка́з, отклоне́ние
dramatic прилагательное	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	драмати́ческий
correctly наречие	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	пра́вильно
meaningful прилагательное	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/	зна́чимый
unlock глагол	/ʌnˈlɑk/	отпира́ть, отпере́ть
mechanic существительное	/mɪˈkænɪk/	меха́ник
embarrassment существительное	/ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/	смуще́ние, стесне́ние
meaningless прилагательное	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/	бессмы́сленный
consistent прилагательное	/kənˈsɪs.tənt/	после́довательный
necessarily наречие	/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/	обяза́тельно
curious прилагательное	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	любопы́тный, любозна́тельный
rank существительное	/ˈɹæŋk/	ряд, шере́нга

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
come back глагол		возвраща́ться, возврати́ться
come out глагол	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	выходи́ть, вы́йти

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

You're stuck in the game.
If I failed, it meant that I wasn't talented.
It tells you what doesn't work.
Instead of asking, did I fail?
What am I trying to prove?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	is broken · can be summarized · can be flattened
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	haven't unlocked · haven't stopped
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	ones who try · ones who let

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 43 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например don't, I'm, didn't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, referendum /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, wander /ˈwɑndɚ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/, hobby /ˈhɑ.bi/, horribly /ˈhɔɹəbli/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, talented /ˈtæləntɪd/, salad /ˈsæl.əd/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как impressive, scare, admire.

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