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Tanya Cushman Reviewer So, when I was in art school,

I developed a shake in my hand, and this was actually the straightest line I could draw.

Now, in hindsight, I'll admit the shake was great for some things, like mixing a can of paint or shaking a Polaroid.

But for me, this was really doomsday.

This was the destruction of my dream of becoming an artist.

This shake developed out of a single -minded pursuit of pointillism, just years of making little tiny dots.

And eventually, the dots went from being perfectly round to looking more like tadpoles because of the shake.

So to compensate, I'd hold the pen tighter, which progressively made the shake worse, so I'd hold the pen tighter still.

And this became a vicious cycle that ended up causing so much pain and joint issues, I had trouble holding anything.

And after spending years perfecting dots, I couldn't imagine being an artist in any other way.

So I left art school, and then I left art completely.

But after a few years, I couldn't stay away from art, and I decided to go to a neurologist about the shake,

and I discovered that I had permanent nerve damage.

And the neurologist took one look at my squiggly line and said, And I said, well, why don't you just embrace the shake?

Okay.

So I did.

I went home.

I grabbed a pencil.

And my slide.

I slide.

And I just started letting my hands shake and shake.

I was embracing it.

And I started making all these scribble pictures.

And even though it wasn't the kind of art that I was ultimately passionate about, it felt great.

And more importantly, once I embraced the shake, I realized that I could still make art.

I just had to find a different approach to making the art that I wanted.

Now, I still enjoy the fragmentation of pointillism, seeing all these little tiny dots come together to create a unified whole.

So I began looking for other ways to fragment images where the shake wouldn't affect the work,

like dipping my feet in paint and walking on a canvas.

Or in a 3D structure consisting of 2x4s, creating a 2D image by burning it with a blowtorch.

I discovered that if I worked on a larger scale and with bigger materials, my hand wouldn't really hurt.

And I went from having a single approach to art to an approach to creativity that has completely changed my artistic horizons.

This was the first time I'd encountered the idea that embracing the limitation could actually drive creativity.

At the time, I was finishing up school, and I was so excited to finally get a real job and afford new art supplies,

because I actually had this really pathetic set of tools,

and I felt that I could do so much more with the supplies I thought an artist was supposed to have.

I actually didn't even have a regular pair of scissors.

I was using these metal shears until I stole a pair from the office that I worked at.

So, I got out of school, I got a job, I got a paycheck, I got myself to the art store,

and I just went nuts buying supplies.

I just bought everything I've ever wanted.

And then when I got home,

I sat down and I set myself to task to really try to create something just completely outside of the box.

And I sat there for hours, and nothing came to mind.

The same thing the next day, and the next, quickly slipping into a creative slump.

I was in a dark place for a long time,

unable to create, and it didn't even make any sense because I was finally able to support my art, and yet I was creatively blank.

but as I searched around the darkness I realized

that I was paralyzed by all the choices that I never had before

and it was then

that I thought back to this limitation of my jittery hands embrace the shake

and I realized if I ever wanted my creativity back I had to quit trying

so hard to think outside of the box and and get back into it.

I wondered, could you become more creative then by looking for limitations?

What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies?

At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in Starbucks,

and I know you can always ask for an extra cup if you want one.

So I decided to ask for 50.

Why not, right?

Surprisingly, they just handed them right over.

And then with the pencils I already had, I made this project for only 80 cents.

This became a moment of clarification for me, that we need to first be limited in order to become limitless.

Then, I took this approach of thinking inside the box to my canvas and wondered, what if instead of painting on a canvas,

I could only paint on my chest?

So I painted 30 images, one layer at a time, one on top of another, with each picture representing an influence in my life.

Or what if instead of painting with a brush, I could only paint with karate chops?

So I dipped my hands in paint, and I just attacked the canvas,

and I actually hit so hard that I bruised a joint in my pinky, and it was stuck straight for a couple weeks.

Or what if instead of relying on myself, I had to rely on other people to create the content for the art?

So for six days, I lived in front of a webcam, I slept on the floor and ate takeout,

and I asked people to call me and share a story with me about a life -changing moment.

Their stories became the art as I wrote them onto this giant, revolving canvas.

Or what if, instead of making art to display, as we always do, I destroyed it?

This destruction idea turned into a year -long project that I called Goodbye Art.

Goodbye Art.

And the idea was that each and every piece of art had to be destroyed after its creation.

In the beginning of Goodbye Art, I focused on forced destruction, like this image of Jimi Hendrix.

It's made with over 7 ,000 matches.

Then I opened it up to creating art that was destroyed naturally.

I looked for temporary materials, like spitting out food, using sidewalk chalk,

and even frozen wine the last iteration of destruction was to try to produce something

that didn't actually exist in the first place

so what I did is I organized candles on a table I lit them

and then blew them out then repeated this process over

and over with the same set of candles then I assembled the the videos into the larger image.

So the end image was never visible as a physical whole.

It was destroyed before it ever existed.

In the course of this

Goodbye Art series, I created 23 different pieces with nothing left to display.

What I thought would be the ultimate limitation really turned out to be the ultimate liberation, as each time I created,

the destruction brought me back to a neutral place where I felt refreshed and ready to start the next project.

But it didn't happen overnight.

There were times my projects failed to get off the ground, or even worse, after spending tons of time on a project,

the end image was kind of embarrassing.

But having committed to the process, I continued on, And something surprising came out of this.

As I destroyed each project, I was really learning to let go.

Let go of outcomes, let go of failures, and let go of imperfections.

And in return, I found a process of creating art that was perpetual and unencumbered by results.

I found myself in a state of constant creation, thinking only of what's next, and coming up with more ideas than ever.

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When I think back to those three years away from art, away from my dream, just going through the motions,

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instead of looking for a different way to continue that dream, I just quit.

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I gave up.

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And what if I didn't embrace the shake?

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Because embracing the shake for me it wasn't just about art and having art skills.

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It was about life and having life skills.

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Because ultimately, most of what we do takes place here, inside the box, with limited resources.

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Learning to be creative within the confines of our limitations is the best hope we have to transform ourselves

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and collectively transform our world.

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Amen.

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Looking at limitations as a source of creativity changed the course of my life.

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Now when I run into a barrier or I find myself creatively stumped, I sometimes still struggle.

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But I continue to show up for the process and remind myself of the possibilities, like using hundreds of real live worms to make an image,

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using a pushpin to tattoo a banana.

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or painting a picture using hamburger grease.

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Limitations may be the most unlikely of places to harness creativity, but perhaps one of the best ways to get ourselves out of ruts,

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rethink categories, and challenge accepted norms, and instead of telling each other to seize the day,

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Maybe we can remind ourselves every day to seize the limitation.

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Thank you.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“Embrace the Shake”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：shake, limitation, image, project, instead。这段视频共有 118 个句子、1579 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 11:00。说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 143 个词，很适合跟读。只有 77% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
shake 动词	/ˈʃeɪk/	搖 /摇
limitation 名词	/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/	限制
embrace 动词	/ɛmˈbɹes/	擁抱 /拥抱, 摟抱 /搂抱
destruction 名词	/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/	毀滅 /毁灭, 破壞 /破坏
creativity 名词	/kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/	創造力 /创造力, 創造性 /创造性
canvas 名词	/ˈkæn.vəs/	帆布
skill 名词	/skɪl/	技巧, 技能
discover 动词	/dɪˈskʌvə/	發現 /发现, 發覺 /发觉
remind 动词	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	提醒
slide 名词	/ˈslaɪ̯d/	滑梯
rely 动词	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	依賴 /依赖, 依靠
transform 动词	/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/	變換 /变换, 變形 /变形
pencil 名词	/ˈpɛnsəl/	鉛筆 /铅笔
candle 名词	/ˈkæn.dəl/	蠟燭 /蜡烛, 蠟 /蜡
seize 动词	/ˈsiːz/	抓獲 /抓获, 攫取

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
come up with 动词	想出, 提出
end up 动词	到达
give up 动词	投案, 自首
go through 动词	通過 /通过
sit down 动词	坐下, 坐

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：

I just bought everything I've ever wanted.
I wondered, could you become more creative then by looking for limitations?
What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies?
I could only paint on my chest?
And what if I didn't embrace the shake?

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	was paralyzed · be destroyed · was destroyed
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	has completely changed · I've ever wanted

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 17 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 didn't, I'd, couldn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, rethink /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, brush /bɹʌʃ/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/
长单词——注意重音位置: limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, visible /ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/, nerve /nɝv/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: shake /ˈʃeɪk/, embrace /ɛmˈbɹes/, canvas /ˈkæn.vəs/, dot /dɑt/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, neutral /ˈnuː.tɹəl/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 shake, limitation, embrace 这类单词。

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