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It's been a while since we talked.

Like, I mean, really talked.

For those of you who don't know me, my name's Isaac.

I'm 21.

I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

And I'm scared to get older.

Or at least sometimes.

Maybe a lot of times.

Let me just explain how I think about life.

And I know this is going deep really quick, but look, we ain't got much time.

So literally and figuratively, I think of life in this way, right?

You're a kid and then you're a teenager and then you're an adult, right?

And along the way, you're trying to figure out what is your thing, right?

Your purpose, finding meaning in your life.

What are the things that you enjoy?

What are the things that you're striving towards, your goals, your aspirations, finding success in some way? and so along the way,

you know, finding meaning through maybe a spouse or marriage or

and kids and all that kind of thing and so you're in this stage of, you know, especially in teens, young adults, you feel like you're in the in -between, right?

You know, in high school and when you're a kid, nothing's really too much expected of you, right?

Like, it's not a big deal that you don't know what you're doing with your life.

You feel like you're lost.

Of course you feel like you're lost.

If you know what you're doing, then you're the outlier.

But as you get older,

especially young adulthood, and you feel like you haven't gotten to where you want to be

and you're scared you'll never get there.

You're scared that you'll wake up one day and you'll be 30

and you've never accomplished anything or you'll be 40 and you've never accomplished anything and you've wasted the years you have.

What people talk about, you know, what's insane to me.

I hate when people do this.

I hate it when people say, Oh man, you know, enjoy your, you know, enjoy your twenties.

Those are the best years you'll ever have.

Or like, those are the best years of your life or, you know, like things like that, because that makes me feel like, well, I'm not happy.

I'm struggling.

And you're telling me this is the best it's going to get.

That's the, that's all you could say. That blows my mind.

So I can't believe that.

And I can't believe that I can't believe that the summit, that there is a summit, right?

We think, at least in my mind, I think I've always wanted to get to a place

or a certain specific goal where certain things measure up and they line up.

And for at least one moment in time where I have, you know, I'm financially set and I'm relationally set and I'm,

you know, emotionally set.

And all these things align and then I've made it.

I've won.

I've done it.

I've accomplished what I wanted to do.

And I can be at peace.

But that doesn't exist.

I have to believe it doesn't exist.

Everything I watch, every person I talk to that has accomplished what they wanted to accomplish, they're still hungrier.

They're still looking for approval.

They're still looking for love.

They're still looking for meaning.

They're still looking for purpose.

So cornering myself off into believing

that I need to get to a certain place at a certain time

and accomplish a certain thing in order for me to be happy or be fulfilled or be

be accomplished I think it's a sham I think it's a

complete lie along the way my journey over the last two

years at least with this ministry I set numerous goals of like stats

and and and and all you know amount of followers

or subscribers and goals and aspirations I wanted to get to And each time I would pass one of those milestones,

I would look back and think back and remember myself before saying, if I could only get here, then I would be satisfied.

Then I would be happy.

Then I would be fulfilled.

But I got to that place, and then all of a sudden that didn't look too hot.

Actually, honestly, the fact that I got there was a failure in itself because I should have got there sooner.

And that applies to a lot of aspects of my life.

I think of, oh, when I get to this spot, then I'll be fulfilled.

And then I get there and then I take it as a negative because it took me too long to get there.

Because I should be further along than I am.

And so you torture yourself because you have these expectations that are...

You have expectations, but on top of those expectations is your really life motivation it's connected to

that so if your expectations aren't met then your life motivation is just shriveled up.

Your meaning, your sense of purpose, your sense of peace is all connected to that.

Every day, every day that I don't feel like I've made a dent,

like into something more, something meaningful,

something that has legacy to it,

Every day that I haven't done that, I feel angry.

I feel frustrated.

I feel discouraged.

And so I feel like in some ways, every day I wake up with that motivation to do it,

to make it, to tap into that more that God would have for me.

But along the way, things pop up.

Like my own desire to find love and acceptance from other people and to find identity, right?

As long as I find my identity in my productivity,

I'll never find peace, right? because I'll never be productive enough to give myself license to let go.

Because it will never be enough.

It will never be enough.

And I think God designed it that way.

He designed it that we can wake up early.

We can, you know, grind and we can rise and grind or whatever the heck.

We can do all that.

We can strive.

We can even make an impact.

But at the end of the day, if our identity is disconnected from the one who created us,

we will always be disconnected from who we truly are in Christ.

and so as long as I find my identity in in being

that kind of person that makes an impact or find

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that identity in in in being somebody that is is successful

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or or somebody that is productive or somebody that is smart

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or or liked or loved as long as I find my identity in

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that I will always be disconnected from who I truly am and I will never find the peace that passes all understanding.

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And so what I'm trying to do, and I know this is just a weird big therapy session, I guess, but you need one of those every once in a while.

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What I'm trying to do, what I'm trying to do is tap into my identity in Christ,

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step into that, letting go of the pressure to perform in order to gain God's love,

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but rather as I step into my identity, I want my productivity and my faithfulness to God's work,

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the work that he's given me to be an outflowing of his love.

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And I know I've talked about this before.

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And at certain points in my life, I felt like that was the moment.

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That's the one I like.

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I've made it.

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I get it now.

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I can do it.

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Yeah.

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But then I just go back to where I was before.

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Same mentality, same mindset, same anxieties and discouragements all fueled by this concept that,

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that, that I'm not where I'm supposed to be.

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And that feeds into, you know, every year I feel like I'm running out of time and,

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and look, I don't want to live this way.

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I don't think anybody wants to live this way.

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I love that God, I'm thankful that God has given me a desire for more,

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for more of him and what he would have for me and, you know, and all that.

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But I'm also, I need to be aware and I'm, and for those of you who are like this,

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you need to be aware that you need to fight off the,

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the things that will steal your joy and things that will take this identity in Christ and they'll pull it,

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pull it to things that shouldn't be like identity in money, how much you're making, or your status, or how much you're working,

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or how busy you are.

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All these things are going to distract you from the point of all this.

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I could wake up every day and work my butt off for God.

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But where is my relationship with God?

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Where is my identity in God?

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Because it seems like, it seems like sometimes,

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were the people that Tony Miano gave this example once were the people

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that or the the young man that goes to the the door of somebody

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and knocks on the door and you know older guy answers it

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and and the young man asked

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if I mow your lawn can I be your son and

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that sounds crazy guys like no you can't be my son if you just mow my lawn.

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That doesn't make any sense.

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But if that, you know, that older guy first adopts that young man as his son,

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then the outflowing of that will be, could be mowing his father's lawn.

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And so we're getting this out of order here.

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We're looking for more.

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We're looking for purpose.

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We're looking for identity.

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We're looking for love, we're looking for these core, like existential, fundamental aspects to our human nature.

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And yet we abandon the one thing that is free.

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A love, acceptance, a peace, so glorious as is available to us can only be a gift.

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We can never earn it.

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but it's not good enough for us.

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We, we, we want to earn it.

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We want to work for it.

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We want to find it in other things, but it always leaves us empty.

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It always leaves us discouraged.

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It always leaves us asking, is this all there is?

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When you've got to the peak of where you wanted to go, when you've accomplished the things you wanted to accomplish, will it be enough for you?

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If If you're scared of getting older, my question for you would be, where is your foundation?

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Is it in God's sovereignty over your life?

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Or is it in your own self -reliance on doing enough,

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earning enough, succeeding enough, achieving enough to gain God's love, to gain other people's love, to gain meaning,

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to gain purpose? us where is your foundation that's pretty much

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all I have to say I know this is kind of weird video

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if you sat through the whole thing thanks I love you guys I really do

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and I really am thankful for a platform

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that I can just get on

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and talk I mean yeah we're all working we're all trying

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to figure this out you know it takes it takes time takes a lifetime

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and the more honest

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and open we can be about what we're going through about what we're feeling especially with the people around us

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that can only be beneficial it can only be beneficial thanks for watching guys i'll see you next time god bless

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這段影片能幫你提升兩大口語能力：一是自然表達內心糾結，比如用“Or at least sometimes. Maybe a lot of times.”這樣的短句展現情緒層次；二是流暢反駁他人觀點，像“I hate when people do this. I hate it when people say...”這樣的結構，能讓你在對話中清晰表達反對意見。這些都是日常交流中必備的技能，通過影子跟讀（如使用shadowing site或shadow speak工具）能快速掌握。

注意這些連讀和弱讀現象

影片裡有不少典型的連讀和弱讀，比如：“It's been a while since we talked”中“since we”連讀成/sɪns wiː/；“you're a kid and then you're a teenager”裡“and then”弱讀為/ən ðɛn/；“I can't believe that”中“can't”弱讀成/kænt/（美音常發成/kɑːnt/）。這些發音細節能讓你的口語更像母語者，看影片學英語時可以多暫停模仿。

像母語者一樣掌控節奏和重音

模仿這段演講的關鍵是抓住節奏變化和重音位置。比如 speaker 在說“that makes me feel like, well, I'm not happy. I'm struggling.”時，“well”和“not happy”“struggling”用了升調，突出情緒的轉折；而“Everything I watch, every person I talk to”則通過重複結構和重音“Everything”“every person”增強表達力度。建議用“shadowspeak”方法，跟著影片逐句跟讀，注意重音和停頓，練習5-10遍就能明顯提升口語流暢度。

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	It's been · haven't gotten · you've never accomplished
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	be fulfilled · be accomplished · would be fulfilled
最高階 the -est / the most … — 一組中最高或最低的	the best
用 “should” 提建議 should + 動詞 — 表示應該做的事	should have · should be

什麼是跟讀法？

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