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A lot people spend their whole lives always comparing themselves to other people without even knowing how much it negatively affects them.

When comparing yourself to someone who is inferior than you, you may feel content with who you are and lose the passion to grow to your full potential.

When comparing yourself to someone who is superior than you, it could just make you feel bad about yourself and focus only on how little you've progressed in comparison to them.

And this can be very discouraging altogether.

I mean if you look at someone else and work your own goals around theirs you're actually following someone else's path.

But that path is probably not the same path as yours and will not be the path you need to take in order for you to achieve your own dreams.

The thing is, everyone is different.

Diamonds are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Topaz.

Topaz are valuable because it doesn't pretend to be Rubies.

Everything is beautiful in it's own way.

We are all valuable in our own way.

For example, if you're a fish but you compare your running skills to a tiger, you will undoubtedly be disappointed in your own value.

But actually, you can swim way better than a tiger can.

And that there is your value.

Therefore, what you should be focusing on is finding yourself.

Walking on your own path and competing with yourself.

Instead of looking at yourself and the things that you don't have, you should be focusing on the things that you do have and do well.

And even if being yourself doesn't always succeed, like maybe you'll fall, or maybe you'll fail, you should just think that whatever the outcome is, it's the best outcome you could have.

Now you're probably wondering something like: Hey I lost the race, hey I didn't do as well on my exams as my friends, hey I did terribly in the job interview, and then think how is that the best outcome I could have?

It's the best outcome because of the circumstances in that moment.

I'll give you an example, there was a runner who finished in 4th place because the night before she raced, she didn't sleep very well therefore not getting enough rest and not having enough energy to run as she did when she was training.

She was really sad and she blamed herself because she thought that she didn't do the best that she could because if she had had more rest, she would have done better.

But in reality, she's not able to turn back the time to when she didn't get enough rest.

Which means that ultimately, we cannot control everything and we cannot change anything even if it wasn't done as well as we had hoped.

It really was the best outcome considering the situation.

The voice in our head that's always telling us things like "had I known, I wouldn't have done it that way" or "if I hadn't done it like this, I wouldn't be in the position I am in now", they comes from our hope and expectations that want to fix our disappointments but in reality we aren't able to turn back the time to fix what's already happened.

And because we can't fix it, then we think that's it's our fault and we blame ourselves.

But no matter how much we blame ourselves, we can't change the past.

Therefore, the only thing that can release us from blaming ourselves is to understand that we are not the only cause for what happened.

The runner finished in 4th place not just because she was too excited to fall asleep.

But it was also because of several other reasons.

The 3 winners had trained 6 months longer than her and were more familiar with the trail.

Not only that, but actually there was another runner that didn't make it because of a major traffic jam.

There was traffic because there was construction.

There was construction to fix a broken telephone pole.

There was a broken telephone pole from the lightning and there was lightning from the storm.

Now you can see that had the storm not hit last night, our racer would've finished 5th place because the other runner would have made it to the race.

There are so many other reasons that this could have happened.

We are not the only ones to cause something to happen and we can never go back to change the past.

So if we remember that when we are disappointed in ourselves, we may learn to blame ourselves less, have a little bit more understanding and be able to accept the things that happen to us.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这段视频共有 40 个句子、788 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 4:01。说话人语速较快，每分钟约 196 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。 88% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个不太常见的单词，附发音和释义：

compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (动词) — 比, 比較 /比较. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
runner /ˈɹʌnɚ/ (名词) — 跑步者, 跑者. A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ (形容词) — 敗興 /败兴, 失望. Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
telephone /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ (名词) — 電話 /电话. A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to…
tiger /ˈtaɪɡə/ (名词) — лохў, хў. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
pole /pəʊl/ (名词) — 極 /极. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
lightning /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ (名词) — 閃電 /闪电, 電光 /电光. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ (形容词) — 優越 /优越. Higher in rank, status, or quality.
trail /tɹeɪl/ (名词) — 足跡 /足迹, 蹤跡 /踪迹. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the…
passion /ˈpæʃən/ (名词) — 激情, 熱情 /热情. A true desire sustained or prolonged.
diamond /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ (名词) — 璇石, 鑽石 /钻石. A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
skill /skɪl/ (名词) — 技巧, 技能. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
compete /kəmˈpiːt/ (动词) — 競爭 /竞争, 高下. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
asleep /əˈsliːp/ (形容词) — 睡著的, 睡着的. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
swim /swɪm/ (动词) — 游泳. To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

视频中出现的短语动词

look at (动词) — 觀察 /观察, 看. To observe or watch.
come from (动词) — 來自 /来自. To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 24 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 didn't, doesn't, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, theirs /ðɛɚz/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: passion /ˈpæʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
长单词——注意重音位置: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, disappointment /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/

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。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 compare, runner, disappointed 这类单词。

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
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	someone who is
最高级 the -est / the most … — 一组中最高或最低的	the best
用 “should” 提建议 should + 动词 — 表示应该做的事	should be · should just think
用 “might / may” 表可能 might/may + 动词 — 有可能但不确定的事	may feel · may learn

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