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Get ready with me to run, don't walk to the pack with me for my trip to Greece in five minutes
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or less in the best neighborhood in Los Angeles with my matcha cold foam, banana flavored air one, Hailey Bieber smoothie with peptides.
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Hello team.
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As my subscribers may know, I usually post about books, but sometimes I like doing little rant videos such as this.
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Today I wanted to talk about a subject that has been
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so heavy on my mind for such a long period of time.
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specifically because I find that with social media and just being in your 20s these days,
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all of our nervous systems are firing on all cylinders.
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And I have been this year really trying to unlearn the hustle optimization mindset.
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You know the feeling when you go to the gym
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and then you realize that you're not wearing your Apple Watch or your Garmin or Fitbit, whatever.
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And there is a sense of real life panic and anxiety
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that your workout will not count because of the fact you forgot your watch at home.
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Or your phone.
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Or whatever is tracking your movements and your steps and your calories and whatever.
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And you can also bring this into reading.
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The Goodreads reading challenge.
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You can't enjoy a book without constantly thinking, what percentage am I at?
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When am I going to finish it?
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There seems to be this common feeling as of late
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that we have kind of lost the ability to enjoy our hobbies anymore because they've turned into measurements.
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Measurements used to demonstrate how smart we are, driven we are, successful we are,
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rich we are, fit we are.
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And so today I wanted to do a bit of a deep dive on this culture,
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this optimization culture, which now lends itself mostly to the term maxing.
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Optimization is the process of making a system, design, or procedure as effective, functional, or perfect as possible.
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And the first three examples it gives are business optimization, technology optimization, mathematic optimization.
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In the beginning of these technological advancements such as Apple watches and calorie trackers and stuff like that,
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it wasn't entirely wrong in the beginning.
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It finally gave everyday people like us access to health data
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that you used to have to go to your doctor to acquire.
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So it made health data far more accessible for everyone.
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And if you were someone that struggled with an autoimmune disease or weight, whether that be weight gain or weight loss, it helped you keep track of these things
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and potentially get you on a better path sooner rather than having to constantly go back and forth from the doctor.
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But somewhere along the way, it became not about health or happiness, but more about the numbers and the statistics.
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It really just stopped being about how you feel
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and more about your Strava pace and time and your sleep hours
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and your calorie count and your calorie in and out and how many grams of protein you've had every day.
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Every single thing in life became endrenched in numbers and metrics.
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And I think the real irony in this comes from the fact
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that our obsession with numbers and measurements
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and stats has taken away the things in life that truly make you feel grounded and grateful and like a human being.
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Human connection, friendships, experiences out in the world or in your town or city, whatever it is.
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And ironically, these are the things that can't be sold in supplements or can't be attained by doing a certain diet.
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And I do really think that
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that fact alone has really contributed to the amount of young people who are on antidepressants
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and anti-anxieties because we live in an age that is so ironically antisocial.
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A few weeks ago, I read a article on Substack that's called, We're All Maxing Now.
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And if you've been on social media for a long time, or even just recently, then it's very probable that you've run into looks maxing,
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money maxing, fitness maxing.
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This term blank maxing is actually something
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that we've seen on the internet since the age of the influencer actually began
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but we've only now just come up with this buzzword for it.
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A morning in my life as a clean girl.
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I wake up at 5 a.m.
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I drink hot lemon tea as soon as I wake up.
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I take my ice mask out of the freezer.
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I put it under my eyes.
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I get my ice rollers.
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I sculpt my cheekbones with my gua sha.
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I go to Pilates.
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This fascination with days in my life
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and what I eat in a day have made us believe
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that we need to be treating our bodies like excel spreadsheets
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and what kind of equations should we use to optimize our specific body
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and how can we organize our body
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and our time in the best way possible so
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that we can become the most successful the most fit
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and the most happy as fast as possible
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and i think this is also fascinating
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because i think our society has a real problem with thinking
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that happiness is something that is the light at the end of the tunnel
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and once you get there it will be happy for the rest of time
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and i think that that's a real problem because telling each other
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that you can achieve happiness it's misleading because you can never achieve happiness that will last forever.
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That's just simply not how life works, unfortunately.
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The term maxing was popularized online on a beautiful thriving metropolis on the internet called Reddit.
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It was actually popularized by a bunch of incels on Reddit
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actually where looks maxing meant how to increase your sexual value as a man.
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So why did we start doing this?
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When did we start the bottomless pit of self-optimization and why?
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In my opinion, with the rise of social media over this last decade, two decades now I suppose,
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we especially as younger people are so used to seeing lives
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that are so extravagant and so luxurious and
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so much better than our own that we begin to feel inadequate
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and i think a lot of the anger
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and insecurity of people on the internet is due to this feeling of inadequacy
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and when people feel inadequate what do they look for they look for ways to make themselves more valuable
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if that even is possible we've all heard of the like i'm a high value man i'm a high value woman.
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Like, just bullshit like that.
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And I think you can actually trace most internet trends back to the idea of optimization.
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For example, my gym routine, my back routine.
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You know what?
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I need to put on my glasses for this.
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Optimize my vision.
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As I was saying, anything framing your daily life as a human being as something to be strategized or maximized,
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that's usually a dead giveaway that you've fallen into the trap of optimization.
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Let's think of some examples.
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Time blocking, habit stacking.
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We've all read atomic habits, okay?
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Keto diet, analog technique, journaling, manifestation journals, sleep, steps, screen time, every single thing.
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I personally do believe that this is also just a very large part of North American culture.
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I have been born and raised in Toronto
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and I still live in Toronto
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and the hustle culture grind mindset like just put your head down
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and work and don't complain and get it done and make millions before you're 30 and retire at 40.
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The corporate lifestyle and dream is so deeply entrenched into our culture now
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that it's almost Just as if we have begun to see ourselves as a corporation.
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And in this Substack article, the author speaks on this as well.
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We have become so entrenched by the romanticization of corporate lifestyle
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and shareholder value that we have started seeing ourselves as businesses to be sold and brands to be marketed.
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I mean, look at the literal terms, high value man and high value woman, as I previously talked about.
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So why does optimization culture persist?
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is it still so big and why does it seem as though it's never going to decrease?
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Because optimization culture and maxing culture thrives on discontent.
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I remember my dad told me a story
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and he used to work in sports marketing and he had a meeting with the owners of Jenny Craig.
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And if you don't know what Jenny Craig is, Jenny Craig is a weight loss program.
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I'm going to get this wrong, but somebody in the meeting said to one of the reps for Jenny Craig, besides meal plans, what exactly is it that you're trying to sell?
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And the people at Jenny Craig said, we're selling hope.
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And my dad told me this story
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because it made him a bit uncomfortable in the sense
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that the markets thrive on the consumers feeling like they are in a constant state of lack.
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Whether it's lacking hope, lacking material goods, money, whatever it is,
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the advertisements you see all subconsciously try to make you feel
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as though you are lacking in what they can provide you with.
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And listen, I'm not trying to knock Jenny Craig.
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I've heard a lot of Jenny Craig success stories.
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The person who said that didn't intend to say it in a malicious manner, but I just, after thinking deeper on that,
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it made me realize just the true agendas behind the advertisements that we are so exposed to all the time.
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Every single thing is an advertisement on how to better yourself.
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The author of this article then goes into something that's very interesting about why they think that this optimization culture,
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self-optimization, maxing culture has blown up so much.
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The author states that the issue is perhaps rooted in the fact that the American dream, the house, the family, the job, is no longer attainable anymore.
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So since us youths have given up on that, we are now looking to spend our money on our appearances or our bodies,
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which is the one thing that we perhaps can control.
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But also, I think that there can be a healthy balance.
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I think you can find a balance between optimization, healthy optimization, and performative optimization or maxing.
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How do we know when it's healthy and how do we know when it's performative?
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I think something that's so interesting is thinking about why is there an option to have friends on your Apple Watch?
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Why is there an option to have friends on Strava?
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Why is it important to have followers on your fitness page?
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If it really was for yourself, why would you need other people to see it or want other people to be paying attention and to see it?
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Or why do you want to look at other people's stats?
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When you think really deeply, why do you want that?
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And I have really been trying to question these habits that I have, like these performative habits that I have.
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For me especially, it's with books.
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And if I read like one book a month, oh my god, I'm a failure.
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I shouldn't even be making book videos on YouTube.
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Like I'm obviously not reading enough.
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Hey, who cares?
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It's just like those memes, you if you win, you if you lose.
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And it's just still a beautiful scene.
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It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
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What does matter is the joy and the learning that you achieved through reading.
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I also saw a TikTok by a creator that I just loved so much.
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Peptides, Pilates, Protein, Higher Rocks, Hot Girl Walk.
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Why is everything about wellness, Like, why is every single thing about, you know, being fit, being well,
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collagen this, collagen that, why don't you just put the collagen in the bloody cocktail?
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Are we not allowed to have fun anymore?
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Are we just not allowed to, like, not care?
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But if you're a young person and you're walking around drinking matcha and going to Pilates every single weekend with your friends, get a life.
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I wasn't thinking, oh my God, calorie deficit, blah, blah, blah.
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Should I go and have a Joe and the juice?
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joe and the freaking juice something mcdonald's can you just like live life and love
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and laugh a little bit okay even us older gals right
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everything is about the wellness okay i want to be well i'm taking my vitamins
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but i also want to have a shot okay
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and be well in your own time okay go to the
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gym do the pilates drink the green juice like i don't know bathe in the matcha
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if you want to or I gargled the peptides.
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Can we just, can we just live our lives?
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Enjoy your life.
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So I did have to cut it down quite a bit because it's a very long video, but essentially what the creator is getting at is
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that there is a culture of young people becoming so obsessed with work and hustle.
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And it's like, yes, when you live in a big city or or really anywhere now, you will need a job and you will have responsibilities.
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For the majority of people, that is just the reality.
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Or you have multiple jobs, or you're in school and have a job.
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Last year, I was school full-time and working full-time.
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And let me tell you, it's not fun.
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But that is the sad reality for a lot of people nowadays.
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And I think it's really important to remind ourselves that in our 20s, we don't need to have our career figured out.
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We don't need to be able to afford a down payment
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on a house We don't need to be getting married
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and having babies if you have the ability to do all of those things and that's what you want to do
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obviously More power to you.
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That's wonderful And I wish you all the best
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but for the most part people can't afford to be doing those things
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and people don't have everything Organized at this point in their lives
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and it causes
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so much stress for Literally all of my friends in their 20s who I speak to feel the exact same way.
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They're like, I'm a failure.
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I'm behind I'm this I'm that I'm like we're 25 years old.
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We're still kids in the world So it has been uh, probably over a week since I came back to this video Hi mister.
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We have a friend now.
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We have a friend.
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This is Carmi.
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Carmi for short, of course and he's the best.
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But as I was saying, there really is an ongoing trend with people in their 20s feeling like they need everything figured out right now.
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And if they don't, then they're a failure, which I think has significantly contributed to the fact that everyone
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and their mama is on antidepressants or some kind of SSRI, myself included.
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You're not.
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You're happy as a clam, But what I really wanted to try
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and figure out from the making of this video is what are the lasting effects of maxing culture
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and how can we possibly break these habits that we've created
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that are so unsustainable and just constantly make us feel like shit.
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I read a Substack article called Why Can't I Enjoy Anything Anymore by Push to Prod
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and it was so eye-opening and so well written and I just absolutely loved it.
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The author basically just talks about he's realized
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that he no longer finds a lot of joy
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or fulfillment in things that he used to and he's trying to figure out why exactly that is.
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In one part of the article he says, the things I can still enjoy have one thing in common, they produce something.
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Code ships, videos get published, projects get finished, there's an output, something to show for the time spent.
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The things I can't enjoy anymore don't produce anything.
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Because of maxing culture, we have literally rewired our brains to think that if there is nothing to show for it,
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then that action had no merit or no meaning whatsoever.
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And every moment that we spend doing something for fun,
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we feel like takes away from the time we could have spent creating something or making something of ourselves.
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When really that's not our fault, it's impossible to constantly be in a state of inspiration and creativity at all times.
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But we feel that way because everybody is struggling so much
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because of the financial situation of the world that even when you're working your ass off, like most people are, you still feel like my life isn't where it should be.
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And I do get it, you know, like we all have a fire under our ass right now to grind now
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so we can retire later or have a great life later but how long does that road actually go?
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I feel like it's a never-ending road that eventually just eats up our lives until we are finally, maybe, hopefully, retired.
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And then you're like, I should have done all those things when I was in my 20s.
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Like, why was I so concerned about building my future?
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Like, my future is still being built.
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You're never done building your future.
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Your future is imminent.
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And my mom's calling me.
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Something that helps me, and as cheesy as this sounds.
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Yes, hello.
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Whenever I get so anxiety ridden and I think about all the things
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that I should be doing instead of relaxing or instead of enjoying time off, I always just say to myself,
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it is a wonderful fluke that we exist in the first place.
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And there is honestly nothing you are supposed to do.
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We are here to enjoy our lives and if we have passions and we have ambitions, that's amazing.
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And 100% everybody wants to live a comfortable life for themselves, of course.
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The trend now is multi-millionaire, billionaire, like crazy wealth, like I want a Lamborghini.
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Nobody needs a Lamborghini.
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Why exactly do you want that if there was no other person on earth.
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So what exactly is the solution to this?
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I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I know the solution to this
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because I do suffer from this all the time, but I think part of the solution is just noticing.
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Notice when self-improvement is for you or when it's for others.
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Notice when people
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that you look up to are trying to convince you to
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spend an exorbitant amount of money in the name of bettering yourself.
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I think sometimes I, just like others, tend to forget that we live in a very surveyed,
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calculated world where we are accosted by advertisements literally every five seconds.
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And these companies, you know, I used to work in marketing.
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These companies will literally say and do anything to get you to buy what they're selling.
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That's the name of the game.
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So don't believe what all of these skincare brands are telling you, what all of these fitness plans, gym plans.
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It becomes impossible to kind of decipher what you actually enjoy
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and what you've just been told for so many years that you should enjoy.
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And I think that that's a really important distinction to try and make.
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Try living an entire day without logging anything.
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Do your workout without your Apple Watch.
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Go to sleep without recording it.
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Just remember what it's like to be little and just exist in the day,
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in the present, enjoying the things in front of you.
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And when you're bored, figuring out something else that inspires you or something more fun to do.
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I think some of the most brilliant ideas comes from when you're bored, when you're not on your phone doom scrolling.
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The amount of time I spend on my phone just scrolling reels or TikTok is abhorrent.
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It's really bad.
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Do something that you love or something that you find fun
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or just do something in a beautiful setting or with someone that you love.
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Have a beautiful meal, have a great drink, have a cool cocktail, and don't take a picture of it.
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Don't post it on your story.
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Just sit in the presence of it.
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Although it's uncomfortable and you think you're going to forget or you're not going to remember this detail, maybe you won't.
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But then you'll realize over time that that's okay.
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How often do you actually even go back and look at the photos that you take of the food that you eat.
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Honestly, we can do hard things.
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Keep creating things if that's what you really love, but create something that's just for you.
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Try and create something that you actually aren't going to share.
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Try and dig deep to remember why exactly you love doing this in the first place.
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To try and remember what part of the process it was that excited you so much before it became a commodity.
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Just do something with no optimization benefit.
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Call your friends, watch a movie and laugh and don't log it on Letterboxd.
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Have a thought and don't as a man get a microphone and start a podcast.
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There's really so many options.
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Do I want to take a picture of my dog sleeping soundly and peacefully and blissfully on my lap right now?
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Yeah.
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And maybe that's just the process of getting older.
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Maybe you just genuinely do enjoy working and the act of giving back to the man as we get older, but I really, I really,
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really doubt that that's the truth.
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And I don't want this video to come off as some like uppity privileged person saying, just relax, don't work so hard, just enjoy your life.
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Because that's not at all my point.
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I've had a job since I was 14 and worked so many different jobs.
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I had to move out of my apartment
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because I was in such bad debt and then had to move back in with my dad.
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At the end of it all, I do think it is that damn phone.
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If you guys enjoyed this video, my name is Olivia and this is Livy's Book Club and thank you so much for watching.
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I really appreciate your time if you made it this far.
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Do something for you today.
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Love you.
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Bye-bye.
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Bài luyện nói trình độ B2 này dựa trên video “this is why you can't enjoy anything anymore”. Video này có 299 câu và 3765 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 22:52. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 165 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. 84% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất; phần còn lại nên xem trước khi luyện.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| calorie danh từ | /ˈkæləɹi/ | ca-lo, ca-lo-ri |
| advertisement danh từ | /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/ | quảng cáo |
| matcha danh từ | /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/ | mạt trà |
| retire động từ | /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/ | về hưu, hồi hưu |
| scroll danh từ | /skɹoʊl/ | cuộn, cuốn |
| mindset danh từ | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | tư duy, tư tưởng |
| cocktail danh từ | /ˈkɑk.teɪl/ | cốc-tai |
| bore động từ | /boɹ/ | khoan, đục |
| grind động từ | /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ | xay, nghiền |
| persist động từ | /pɚˈsɪst/ | kiên trì |
| luxurious tính từ | /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/ | sang trọng |
| metropolis danh từ | /məˈtɹɑp.ə.lɪs/ | siêu đô thị |
| cheesy tính từ | /ˈt͡ʃiːzi/ | sến |
| shareholder danh từ | /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/ | cổ đông, người có cổ phần |
| freezer danh từ | /ˈfɹizɚ/ | máy ướp lạnh, máy làm kem |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| go back động từ | trở lại | |
| blow up động từ | nổ | |
| take away động từ | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | lấy đi, mang đi |
| wake up động từ | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | thức dậy, dậy lên |
Những câu đáng luyện lại
Các câu ngắn, trọn ý trong video mà bạn có thể dùng lại khi giao tiếp hằng ngày:
- When am I going to finish it?
- When did we start the bottomless pit of self-optimization and why?
- Are we not allowed to have fun anymore?
- Are we just not allowed to, like, not care?
- Can we just, can we just live our lives?
Ngữ pháp trong video
Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:
| Cấu trúc | Trong video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + động từ — thói quen hoặc tình trạng trong quá khứ nay không còn | used to demonstrate · used to have · used to work |
| Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại | has been · have been · they've turned |
| Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm | can't be sold · was popularized · was actually popularized |
| Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật | people who are · person who said |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 82 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ don't, you're, I'm. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/, antisocial /ˌæntiˈsəʊʃəl/, fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, luxurious /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.əs/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/, inadequate /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:
- Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/, entrench /ɪnˈtɹɪnt͡ʃ/, thrive /θɹajv/, grind /ˈɡɹaɪnd/
- Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: collagen /ˈkɑləd͡ʒən/, matcha /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃə/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/, entrench /ɪnˈtɹɪnt͡ʃ/, cheekbone /ˈt͡ʃikˌboʊn/
- Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: calorie /ˈkæləɹi/, advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, inadequate /ɪnˈædəkwɪt/, abhorrent /æbˈhɔɹənt/, antisocial /ˌæntiˈsəʊʃəl/
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như calorie, advertisement, matcha.
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.