跟讀練習: How to get out of creative block (today) - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Okay, today I'm gonna help you get out of a rut.

Maybe you're a creative or an ambitious person who's fallen off.

Probably you fall into these vicious cycles all the time of self -improvement

and then self -destruction where you like get your life together

and build the perfect workout program and exactly what you want out of your life.

You stay consistent with it for like a week or two

and then you fall off and you spiral back into cheap dopamine, binging.

I get it, I've been there.

I've done that many times myself

and I've gotten really good at getting out of the rut that forms when you fall into this pattern.

So all we're going to do today is just break down the process into a series of simple steps you can follow.

What I want you to do is get a journal, a piece of paper, something you can write on.

I want you to get a pen, and we're just going to think through this together.

And then you're going to take some action.

This is very simple.

It's nothing you haven't heard before.

All I'm going to do is try to give you a helpful voice in your head

that then makes you actually want to do it.

So the trick is this.

We have to recondition your brain to get satisfaction from doing difficult things.

If you have fallen off and you're in a rut, probably your brain is really addicted to getting that quick hit of pleasure

or satisfaction from scrolling or vaping or smoking weed or drinking or binge eating or watching porn, any number of cheap dopamine substances.

I get it.

Again, no shame, no guilt.

You're a human being.

Those things tend to be awesome when you're in a really bad state.

So I get it.

We have to get your brain to be like, oh, I enjoy meaningful progress.

I enjoy moving towards a goal and I enjoy facing challenge in order to get closer to that goal.

So this looks like working out.

This looks like writing.

This looks like doing the dishes, putting on clean clothes, going to the store to buy groceries, to do some of these things.

You understand the deal.

And none of it is glamorous when you do it.

But over time, your brain's going to be like, yep, I like this.

I like this.

I feel like I'm stacking up points.

It's more about getting into this state where you are seeking those things out

and it just takes a little bit of coaxing, okay?

Because right now in the rut, it feels impossible.

And then whatever creative ambition or passion in life you wanna pursue feels definitely impossible, right?

Because it's just like, how could I possibly do something difficult right now when I can't get myself out of bed?

So we're just gonna coax you into a state of doing that, okay?

And understand the power of momentum is that

if you do get your feet on the floor and then stand up and then put on clothes, take a shower, put on clothes,

do the dishes, is make yourself a single egg and then eat that and then go for a walk around the block.

If you can just stack up like 10 of those things, immediately you're going to start feeling better, right?

Now, and then over the course of the week, you're going to slowly remove the cheap dopamine substances so

that your brain naturally gets excited by the difficult challenge or by the writing practice.

If you want creative work to replace your consumption addictions, you have to remove the consumption addictions so that it becomes interesting, right?

In a world where you're distracted all the time, writing, performing music, whatever your passion is, is just not going to be that fun, right?

Or it won't be fun if your brain is overloaded with cheap dopamine you didn't earn.

You know this, I know this, we're just reviewing it again because it's good to talk about.

The real thing we need to get into is understanding the force that causes that fall -off effect, which is entropy.

Entropy means chaos.

It can also mean resistance.

Resistance as defined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art.

Resistance, or entropy, or chaos, whatever you really want to call it, is just all the shit,

internal and external, that gets in the way of you doing what you want to do, or that makes it hard.

Internal resistance, internal entropy is self -doubt.

It's the desire to be distracted.

It's the desire to do something besides what you know you should be doing.

External resistance is just all of the inconvenience of life.

It's extreme weather events.

It's having to do stuff for your job.

It's family drama.

It's all of the difficult stuff that demands your attention that you don't really want to do.

We have to learn to navigate all of this stuff.

This is a crucial skill of being a creative in the 21st century, of being a human being in the 21st century or any century.

We have to be able to face the inevitable chaos of life.

And the mistake is thinking that we can somehow not deal with chaos.

When you fantasize about your perfect locked in existence, you're very rarely factoring in all of the inevitable entropy,

when you can't sleep because you had too much caffeine during the day,

or when you have a throat infection and have to go to the doctor

and that gets in the way of your perfect dialed robotic routine.

You rarely account for these things when you're imagining, when you're fantasizing, when you're mentally masturbating about your future life.

So now we're going to get real and we're going to say these things happen and we need to somehow stay aligned,

stay connected to our more aligned identities when the inevitable chaos presents itself, because it is inevitable.

What happens when you fall off is you let entropy sweep you away.

This is my experience, at least.

I've had so many experiences where I get really locked in and I get really dialed in my lifestyle.

I start writing, I'm working out, I feel really, I feel like I'm connected to that locked in version, the future that I want to live.

And then entropy rears its ugly head, internal or external.

Internal being, oh, I get distracted

And then now I don't feel like I'm, um, who I said I was or external entropy.

I get sick.

I get a throat infection.

I get a gut infection that happened to me this summer.

I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

And then suddenly you're like, oh, I'm not perfect.

The whole system is going to collapse.

I am.

I can't do this.

I can't be perfect.

So I'm not going to do it at all.

And this typically happens gradually.

But you see the problem, right?

It's like this this isn't going to work for us.

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The real skill we have to build is being able to ride the wave of entropy, chaos, inevitable discomfort, inconvenience, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, without losing ourselves and being able to engage with the system imperfectly.

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So what I'll invite

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you to do is I'd like you to take the pen on the piece of paper you took out,

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and I want you to write down just exactly what happened the last time you fell off maybe this was today, maybe this was last week.

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I just want you to write out the sequence of events that led to it.

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And I want you to look for the pattern in there.

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Notice where the entropy comes in.

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Was it internal or external, right?

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Was it something that happened that was outside your control that then made you give up on yourself?

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Or was it something internal?

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And then you kind of bought back into the narrative of being not locked in, of being undisciplined, of being weak, a shameful, addicted creature.

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You see how these narratives inform our actions, right?

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When we believe that we are addicted, helpless, we tend to do those things more.

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When we believe that we are locked in, that we're disciplined, that we're powerful creatures that can do amazing things,

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we typically engage with the meaningful challenge a little bit more.

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And the way that you influence that narrative is through the action.

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Forget about the imagining who you want to be and just do the things.

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Action rewires the whole narrative.

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And that's the power of doing a million small things.

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Not a million, but like a hundred small things.

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Get out of bed, put on clean clothes, take a shower, do a workout, go for a walk, listen to music,

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listen to a song that makes you feel like yourself.

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Write down every single thing you can about what you're struggling with.

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And then you start to feel like a human being again.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“How to get out of creative block”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：entropy, internal, chaos。這段影片共有 124 個句子、1522 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 7:13。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 211 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 84% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

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
chaos 名詞	/ˈkeɪˌɑs/	混沌
inevitable 形容詞	/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/	不可避免, 總會 /總會
narrative 名詞	/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/	記敘文 /記敘文
cloth 名詞	/klɒθ/	布, 布料
infection 名詞	/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/	傳染 /傳染
distract 動詞	/dɪˈstɹækt/	分心
addict 名詞	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	上癮的人 /上癮的人
passion 名詞	/ˈpæʃən/	激情, 熱情 /熱情
rarely 副詞	/ˈɹɛəɹli/	很少, 罕有地
skill 名詞	/skɪl/	技巧, 技能
connect 動詞	/kəˈnɛkt/	連線 /連線
consumption 名詞	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	消費 /消費
throat 名詞	/ˈθɹoʊt/	嗓子, 喉嚨 /喉嚨
substance 名詞	/ˈsʌbstəns/	物質 /物質
dish 名詞	/dɪʃ/	碟子, 盤子 /盤子

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
work out 動詞	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /計算, 算出
write down 動詞		寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下
break down 動詞		壞了 /壞了, 出故障
stand up 動詞		站起來 /站起來, 起來 /起來
take out 動詞		取出

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：

I get it, I've been there.
It's nothing you haven't heard before.
I feel like I'm stacking up points.
It's having to do stuff for your job.
I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

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
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've been · I've done · I've gotten
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is really addicted · is overloaded · be distracted

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 50 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you're, I'm, we're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: cloth /klɒθ/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: chaos /ˈkeɪˌɑs/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, cloth /klɒθ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: rarely /ˈɹɛəɹli/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, gradually /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/, scroll /skɹoʊl/

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 chaos, inevitable, narrative 這類單詞。

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