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For the past month or so, I've been thinking a lot about life, and when people say that,

they usually mean what they want to do in life, whether that be their career, or relationships, or entertainment, or leisure.

But I've been thinking differently.

Of course, I've been thinking about those things, but I've also been thinking about how much of your life is really yours.

How much of your life is really being lived to its full potential?

Are you living, or are you just existing?

On average, you're going to get about 79 years on this big rock called Earth.

If you live in Monaco, it's closer to 90.

If you live in Chad, you'll be lucky to get 50.

Regardless, we don't get 79 years of freedom.

We have responsibilities and things that we can't ignore.

Most importantly, our bodies.

Assuming you sleep 8 hours a night on On average, about a third of your life, or 26 years, is going to be spent sleeping.

So right away we're down from 79 to 53.

But it doesn't stop there.

Chances are if you're watching this video, you're going to or have gone to school.

In the United States, you'll go for at least 12 years.

8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 36 weeks a year.

This amounts to 17 ,280 hours spent just inside the school building.

But wait, we also have to factor in homework and out -of -school activities, among other things.

So, this is more like 22 ,000 to 25 ,000 hours, or about 3 years of your life.

If you go to college or university afterwards, make it 5 years instead.

We're down to 48 years.

Well, all this schooling and money you spent getting a degree has to be put to some use, right?

Chances are you'll try and get a job in the field of whatever it is your degree is in.

It'll probably be a full -time job, so you'll be working 40 hour weeks pretty regularly, if not more than that.

Let's say you get two weeks of vacation per year.

The average person works for about 40 to 50 years of their life, so we'll just go with the average and say 45.

Over your entire life, you'll work on average about 90 ,000 hours, or about 10 years of your life.

We have 38 years left.

Wait, depending on where you live, your commute to work will vary.

You might drive yourself, you might walk, you might use an Uber or a taxi.

Regardless, your commute to and from work, on average, takes about one and a half hours a day.

Adding this up over your entire working career, it amounts to 17 ,520 hours, or about two years of your life.

36 years left.

All of this work and studying really builds up an appetite, so you should probably spend some time eating.

On an average day, we spend about 70 minutes just eating food to survive.

In your 79 years of life, you'll spend about 32 ,000 hours just eating, or about 4 years of your life, down to 32.

Well, after you're done eating, you have to clean up and maybe do some chores around the house.

On average, you spend about one hour a day doing tasks just around your house, cleaning up after you eat, washing dishes, doing laundry, showering,

and plenty of other stuff.

This amounts to nearly 29 ,000 hours over the course of your life, or about 3 years.

29 years left.

Eventually, all of that food and water has to leave your body somehow.

You'll spend about 3 months of your life just sitting on the toilet.

Yeah.

Of course, we also waste time, and we do it pretty well.

Over the course of our lifetimes, we'll spend about 115 ,000 hours on our phones, or about 13 years.

This, of course, is just your phone.

This doesn't include you watching TV, you playing games, among other things.

16 years left.

Assuming you can afford to retire at the average age of 62, you'll spend the rest of your life living the luxuries of retirement,

if you can still function properly.

Over 50 % of retired people over the age of 65 have some sort of disability, with 15 % of those people having three or more.

Chances are, if you are one of these people, you'll be in and out of medical care pretty often.

So those final 16 years of freedom you have, it's a coin flip.

That doesn't exactly entail freedom.

So overall, you have one year in your 79 -year life to really and truly do what you want to do.

But despite the age you might be,

young or old, you may be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life.

For example, while you're young and in school from the ages of 1 to 18,

you'll most likely be spending nearly every day in the presence of your parents.

After you finish your schooling, assuming your parents are in their mid -40s, we'll say they have about 30 years left in their life.

The real world starts to set in.

Your job, your possible relationships, your important things to do in life take priority.

Eventually, if you leave your hometown, you'll only be seeing your parents around holidays and special occasions, maybe 10 days a year.

So, 300 days left with the people who brought you into the world, whereas before you would see them almost every single day.

You have already spent 95 % of the time

that you will ever spend with your parents in the first 18 years of your life.

And now, you only have the remaining 5 % for the rest of your life.

At the end of the day, there's only one thing that matters, and that's your own happiness.

What many people don't realize is that they do

so many things in life just to try and succeed as opposed to fulfilling a purpose.

They work a job they hate for 40 years just to make

that extra $30 ,000 a year so they can afford a car that they only drive to work.

It's temporary happiness, not genuine happiness.

People go to school to become a doctor because their mom or their dad or somebody else told them to, not because they actually want to.

I really hope that every single person watching this video gets insanely rich

and famous so that they can finally realize that this isn't the point of life.

The point is to be happy with what you're doing while you're doing it.

Alright, sure, the 45 working years or however long you're working is going to be hard to get past.

But what if you don't hate waking up every day to go to work?

What if your work is your happiness?

You see, life isn't a straight path.

You can't map it out perfectly one -to -one.

It just doesn't work like that.

We spend every day planning on what we're going to do the next, instead of just taking in the day for what it actually is.

Sure, we have to eat.

Duh.

But what if we spend that time eating with friends or family, or just people who make your life better?

Your commute to work might be long and tedious sometimes,

but what if you spend that time listening to podcasts or carpooling with co -workers and friends?

The 13 years we waste on our phones might seem useless, but what if we use that time to build the business you've always wanted to,

or build the brand you've always wanted, or make a YouTube channel to talk to people about the random ideas you get?

You'll bring so much value to people that you never even thought was possible.

Let's say you take care of yourself and regularly work out and eat decently well.

Your chances of being healthy later in life is much more likely,

and you'll have much more free time to master the things that you really want, whether that be a skill or just relationships with others.

No matter what you or I or any person on this planet does, time doesn't stop for anyone.

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Time is the one thing you cannot get back.

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If you lose a lot of money, it's fine.

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You can get more.

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If your friend decides to turn their back on you.

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It's fine, there's millions of people out there in the same situation.

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But time, you can't get it back.

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Once it's gone, it's gone.

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How many days have you spent doing the same mundane tasks that you hate?

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And more importantly, when is it going to end?

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Life is about choices, every choice you've ever made has led you to this exact moment, watching this video.

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And given that you only have one life, at least in this universe, why not make your own decisions?

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So many people live life predicated on somebody else's opinion, which is dumb.

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People have so many barriers in life, but they aren't really about money, they aren't about time.

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They aren't about how you look, it's about opinions.

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Other people's opinions.

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Probably about 90 % of people are unhappy because they value someone else's opinion more than their own.

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When you're old and unable to do the things that you could have when you're younger, you'll regret.

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And regret hurts more than any breakup, failure, or anything else ever could.

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Life doesn't have to suck, you don't have to regret everything.

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That FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a poison.

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Instead of living trying to mimic people you see on Instagram or YouTube or social media, just live based on your own terms.

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Instead of just observing and living passively, really start to think about what you do with your time.

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Does that mean call your boss and tell him you quit?

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No. Does that mean drop out of school tomorrow?

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No. All it means is to truly decide what you want in life and put yourself in the right direction.

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It's not going to happen overnight, that's not the point.

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There would be no journey, then.

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As cliche as it sounds, your 79 year journey here is very short.

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Sure, it's technically the longest thing you'll ever do.

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But the universe is 13 .8 billion years old.

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If the universe's history was condensed down into 24 hours, the world as we know it, with cars and airplanes and civilization as we know it,

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would only come into existence in the very last second.

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Block out any and all negativity in your life, and once you can truly realize that the only opinion that matters is your own,

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life can get pretty clear.

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And the noises inside your head get pretty quiet.

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這節口語課以影片“How Short Your Life REALLY Is”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：hour, spend, average。這段影片共有 62 個句子、1750 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 10:06。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 173 個詞，接近日常對話。 92% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙容易理解。全部 62 個句子中有 12 個是問句，適合練習疑問語調和簡短回答。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
happiness 名詞	/ˈhæpinɪs/	幸福, 快樂 /快樂
regret 動詞	/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/	後悔 /後悔, 遺憾 /遺憾
importantly 副詞	/ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/	重要的是...
retire 動詞	/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/	退休, 引退
ignore 動詞	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	無視 /無視, 忽略
temporary 形容詞	/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/	暫時 /暫時
wash 動詞	/wɑʃ/	洗, 洗滌 /洗滌
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	技巧, 技能
suck 動詞	/sʌk/	吸吮, 咂
priority 名詞	/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/	優先權 /優先權, 更重要的事
vacation 名詞	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	假期
lifetime 名詞	/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/	一生, 一輩子 /一輩子
occasion 名詞	/əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/	場合 /場合, 機會 /機會
genuine 形容詞	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/	真正, 真誠 /真誠
luxury 名詞	/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/	豪華 /豪華

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
miss out 動詞		錯過 /錯過, 放過 /放過
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	醒, 醒來 /醒來
work out 動詞	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /計算, 算出

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

What if your work is your happiness?
You see life isn't a straight path.
You can't map it out perfectly one-to-one.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	I've been thinking
條件句 if + 從句，will/would + 動詞 — 條件及其結果	If you live in Chad, you'll be · if you leave your hometown, you'll only
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have gone · have already spent · you've always wanted
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	being lived · be spent · be put

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 62 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you'll, you're, doesn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: wash /wɑʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, dish /dɪʃ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, vary /ˈvɛəɹi/, overnight /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, negativity /ˌnɛɡ.əˈtɪ.vɪ.ti/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, regret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/, commute /kəˈmjuːt/, wash /wɑʃ/, alright /ɔlˈɹaɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, alright /ɔlˈɹaɪt/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 happiness, regret, importantly 這類單詞。

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