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the biggest question of my 20s undoubtedly is who am i as if that's a simple question

just three harmless little words strung together in a way

that will make you absolutely lose your mind

and the older i get the more i wonder whether i've been asking the wrong question

because whether you find an answer to it

or not you still are yet somewhere along the way i felt like without

that answer there also couldn't be a me instead there's just this tangled mess

that has yet to reach its final form which is also exactly where the story goes wrong

you see at some point i started treating my identity as something

that must be understood by others rather than myself something

that is straightforward and easily labeled and something that makes sense and so nowadays i exist in fragments

there are different versions of myself that exist around different people parts of me that I've curated enough to be understood,

that are still me, but also not, at least not fully.

And while many things can be true at once, when it comes to who I am, I have somehow exempted myself from that rule.

I think I've been treating my identity as though it's a niche, which might sound a little strange at first,

but for everything that I do or try, I ask myself the same question.

Is this it?

Is this my thing?

As if there's only one right answer, and that it's out there, somewhere.

Like we're playing hide and seek and I'll know the second I lay eyes upon it.

Except, I have laid eyes upon it countless times, it just didn't fit the description.

In truth, I could probably give you a pretty good answer to the question of who am I.

It would just take about 10 cardboard boxes, give or take, and quite a lot of unpacking.

Nothing makes you realize just how much stuff you have like moving, and in my case also, how many versions of myself exist.

I think for a long time I assumed that who I was

and what I did had to be one coherent picture and it couldn't contradict itself in any way.

For example, I consider myself to be a pretty outdoorsy person.

I love being outdoors.

I love hiking, camping, all that stuff.

But at the same time, I am a huge homebody.

I love being at home.

I love being comfortable and cozy and warm and dry

and I felt like those two things couldn't exist at the same time

because clearly if I'm such a homebody then I just don't meet the qualifications

or the requirements to be considered an outdoorsy person.

Which it sounds so silly to say out loud

but that's just kind of how my brain worked with so many different aspects of my life.

Just assuming that if there was any form of contradiction then clearly that just wasn't who I was.

It all just had to fit into this pre -designed box and then I would get frustrated if it didn't fit.

It's easy to start feeling like you need to have a thing that defines who you are,

some signal that will tell people what box to put you in because in many ways we're faced with it every day.

It's this endless stream of niches and aesthetics and categories

and types that's trying to figure out where you fit

while simultaneously making you believe that wherever it places you must be it.

There's this weird and unsettling feeling when someone thinks they know you better than you know yourself.

In a lot of ways that happens every time we go online,

where every tap and click and scroll is collected to figure out who you are.

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you need to find a niche is a phrase i've seen

or heard increasingly often presented to you as though it's the answer to all of your problems

it's the way to success the way to an audience, the way to be understood, or liked, or respected.

And apparently, in my case at least, it's also the way to find yourself.

You might be thinking, sure, but what does moving have to do with this?

Well, imagine I would move and only take one singular box with me, a single category of items it would all be nice

and on theme and coherent but it would be equally ridiculous

because being on theme has now also come at the cost

of literally every other belonging of mine every hobby every clothing

piece every book every slightly contradicting item would be discarded for the sake of clarity

and i think the same thing happens when you assume that you can only be one thing.

You discard every other part of you for the sake of fitting into some non -existent box.

It's really just abandonment, masked as self -discovery.

Because I don't think the answer to finding out who you are is to water yourself down enough

that there's only one option left.

And so as I was packing, and then unpacking, I realized that I've spent so much time trying to put a finger on who I am,

on finding the one thing that defines me,

when all of these different sides of me have happily been living under one roof for so many years.

And yeah, some are contradicting, some I haven't touched in months or years, some I've forgotten and found my way back to,

some I'll always cherish, and others I don't always love.

but there is room for all of them and more both in my house and in myself

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這節口語課以影片“stop trying to categorize yourself”為素材。這段影片共有 80 個句子、1142 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 8:05。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 141 個詞，很適合跟讀。 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
collect 動詞	/ˈkɑlɪkt/	庋藏, 收藏
define 動詞	/dɪˈfaɪn/	界定
sponsor 名詞	/ˈspɒn.səː/	保證人 /保證人
coherent 形容詞	/koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/	凝聚的
finger 名詞	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	手指, 指頭 /指頭
clothing 名詞	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	衣服, 衣裳
ridiculous 形容詞	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	可笑, 荒謬 /荒謬
discovery 名詞	/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/	發現 /發現
label 名詞	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	標籤 /標籤, 簽條 /籤條
aspect 名詞	/ˈæspɛkt/	方面
steal 動詞	/stiːl/	偷, 盜 /盜
string 名詞	/stɹɪŋ/	線 /線
equally 副詞	/ˈiːkwəli/	一樣地 /一樣地, 同樣地 /同樣地
silly 形容詞	/ˈsɪl.i/	愚蠢, 笨
belong 動詞	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	屬於 /屬於

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
figure out 動詞	弄清楚
find out 動詞	找出, 查明

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 asking · I've been treating · have happily been living
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is sponsored · must be understood · be understood
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 curated · have laid · I've just had

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 22 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, couldn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, unlimited /ʌnˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/, qualification /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, undoubtedly /ʌnˈdaʊtɪdli/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: niche /nɪt͡ʃ/, sake /ˈseɪ̯k/, collect /ˈkɑlɪkt/, coherent /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, harmless /ˈhɑɹmləs/

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。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 collect, define, sponsor 這類單詞。

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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