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So the technology is making human beings dumber.

And that really frustrates me because human beings are capable of incredible things.

You are capable of incredible things.

And I'm genuinely worried that your time spent online consuming, whether it's digital consumption or vaping, smoking weed, using whatever substance you need to turn your brain off,

I'm worried that that's limiting you from being what you could be.

I think you're worried about that as well.

And that's why you're still watching this.

Today, I want to tell you that there is another option.

There's another way to live your life.

I have been working on it for the last three years, and I'm going to try to condense everything

that I've worked on into this one video so that you have a place to start, so that you have a way of living that doesn't make you want to escape all the time.

Let's talk about what the tech is doing to us.

And this might be familiar to you.

Either way, I want you to get a piece of paper.

I want you to get a pen, and I want you to engage with this video meaningfully.

Really try to stay with it.

Try to give your attention to this, not try to go anywhere else, not open another tab.

Let's try to have a conversation because this is the problem of our time.

We are the generation that is going to decide what happens to humanity's consciousness.

We are faced with unprecedented distraction, overwhelm, technology we're not psychologically prepared for.

We have no idea what the AI is going to be able to do in a few years.

We really don't.

We're not prepared for this.

We were given addictive tech at a young age before we knew how to handle ourselves, before we knew how to engage with the drug that was in our pockets.

And that has given us some real challenges.

A lot of us can't focus for more than a few minutes at a time.

A lot of us haven't read a book in months.

A lot of us don't know what to do with our precious time on this planet.

So we spend our days meaningless, aimless, just trying to distract ourselves from the fact that we don't have a map.

We don't have something to aim ourselves at.

That is a core human need.

We're distanced.

We're isolated from each other.

We spend our days in our rooms, just turning our brains off.

That is not what you were meant to do in this life.

You were meant for more and you're capable of more.

You just need something to aim at, and I'm going to help you get there.

I'm working on it myself.

I'm not perfect, but for the last three years, I have been on a mission to figure this out.

The solution is not to abandon the technology.

The cat's out of the bag.

It's going to keep developing.

You need to take responsibility for yourself.

Take responsibility for your time, your habits, what you're giving your attention to.

You need to find something better to live for.

We're going to do this together.

Human beings are meant to engage with deep stories, with difficult concepts.

We're meant to think and solve problems and throw our attention at something

that you can't figure out in a minute or in 90 seconds.

We're meant to sit in rooms and talk to one another about interesting ideas.

That is something that is being robbed from us because these companies are set up to addict us, essentially.

So we're not gonna talk about that specifically.

We're gonna talk about what to do.

I want you to get a paper and pen.

If you haven't yet, this is your second chance, grab it.

Come on, we're gonna do this.

We're you and me together.

This is it how we save ourselves from the dystopia is we talk to one another

and we stay on a video for a few minutes so

that we can let our brains like stay with an idea for more than 90 seconds.

Okay.

I'm really fired up right now because it frustrates me.

It really makes me angry to see people reduced to their worst selves.

It's something that happened to me.

I lost, I would say, years of creativity to distraction and it's taken me so much time to get back to it.

Now that I have that, I am all the more excited to share it with you because I think you have something like that too.

Okay.

I know this was like a really long intro.

Here's the first step.

You need to de-stimulate yourself.

You need to rest.

Your brain is full of stuff.

Okay.

Your body might be full of stuff as well, like junk food or whatever.

I don't know what your situation is, but right now, if you're feeling really overwhelmed and anxious, let's bring it down.

You have to give it time to process out of you.

And the cool thing about your body is that it is designed to do this.

So if you just sit and do nothing for a little while, for maybe a day or a few hours, your brain is going to reset itself.

What this means is it's time to stop looking at information.

It's time to stop taking in new videos and music and things just for a short while.

And you need to let yourself get bored again.

You need to get some sleep probably.

You need to drink some water.

You need to eat some low stimulation food

and let your body return to baseline so that you can start building from the ground up again,

so that you can reconnect to a spark of curiosity so that you can feel like a child.

When you were a small child, before the screens, before you were infected with cheap dopamine and all kinds of distractions,

you had a natural curiosity about you that made you move through the world with open eyes and like, oh, I want to...

You just kind of did what your soul wanted you to do.

And I know that's a little ooey gooey, that's not scientific, but I trust that you know the feeling I'm talking about.

You can find your way back to this feeling with enough time, and then you'll start to heal from all of the overstimulation.

You can get the excitement you're looking for off of your own supply.

You can get it yourself in a much more sustainable, healthy way.

First step is to de-stimulate, and then you need to have the courage to try things.

You need to listen to what your brain wants to try, and then you have to try it without any judgment.

What stops most people I see from trying new things is the expectation that it needs to be perfect, it needs to be presentable, it needs to be good,

and it absolutely prevents them from accessing a state of play.

So for example, you might be compelled by music, but you've spent, I mean, you've seen, you might have this idea in your head that you need to be like a successful musician, or the work has to be good,

or that you even have to share it for it to be worth it.

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And And none of those things are true.

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The only thing you're solving for now is finding a game that you can play that satisfies you on an intrinsic level.

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Intrinsic motivation comes from you.

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Extrinsic motivation is like, will the world like this?

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Will the song perform?

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Will I get money from it?

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Will some external result happen because of this thing?

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It's not that.

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It comes into play later.

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But in the beginning, you're looking for that intrinsic motivation.

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Really sit with yourself for a moment and think about what you actually want to do.

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And the cool thing is in most, in almost every case that I've seen, you know, like, you know what it is, you know what you would rather be doing.

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You know what you're distracting yourself from.

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It might not be this insane, fiery passion to go become a sculptor or to go build a tech startup.

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Like, you know what I mean?

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It might be like, yeah, I think I'd like to play with Legos.

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You know, I think I want to go like that was, I had a lot of fun eight years old building this Lego architecture thing.

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And that's something that I want to try.

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And so you might do that.

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Or it might be something a little bit more formed.

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Like I want to go learn Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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And it might not be one thing, but in the beginning, you're just trying to scout out within yourself what that is.

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And then you have to follow through on it.

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And this is where we get into some of the more personal development stuff, which is the courage to start something, to face the discomfort of starting,

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understanding that discomfort is normal.

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Anytime you're starting something new, anytime that you're doing something more difficult than self-soothing and numbing,

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it's going to involve some degree of difficulty, which is good.

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What'll happen as you face that difficulty once, twice, three times, four times, more than that, is you'll start to crave it.

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This is super important to understand because a lot of People think

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that the solution to their problems is to just build this unbreakable discipline

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and become a monk and to face pain and discomfort and grind every second they're alive for the rest of their life.

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No, that's really not what it is.

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Yes, there's challenge.

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Yes, there's facing discomfort.

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But your body and your brain starts to enjoy that.

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You start to enjoy the challenge of the game.

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And then you almost become addicted to that.

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That's what I was just talking about, where the craft or the practice you give yourself to becomes the drug.

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It's not a bad kind of drug that hurts you.

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It's stimulating in a healthy way.

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And I point this out because I want to encourage you that this process is going to be fun.

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okay you don't need to suffer uh you don't need to only suffer to get to a better place in life

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yes there's pain and challenge but it's not going to be miserable all the way

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or it's not going to work if it's miserable all the way

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if you can't play this game every day of your life

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you will you will give up at a certain point you will um turn back to the thing

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that gives you reliable quick instant guaranteed comfort

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which is only going to keep you in the same place

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and it will trap you in being a lower version of yourself for the rest of your life.

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If this happens to humanity, we will lose.

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We will lose the battle.

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So we cannot have that happen.

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If you're still with me on this video, number one, thank you.

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Number two, you are literally on the front lines of humanity's consciousness.

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We're in it together.

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This is it, right?

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It's like we are fighting to become the best.

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We are fighting to become ourselves.

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We are trying to integrate all of the pieces of our psyche and our soul, and we are trying to bring to life that which we're meant to do.

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And by doing that, you saved the world, period, point blank.

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You literally saved the world.

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You can't change 100,000 people.

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You can't change a million people, but you can change yourself.

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And if you can do that, if you can have the courage to do that on a daily basis in all of the everyday, mundane, unsexy things, but just the courage to get out of bed at the time you said you would get up

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and to go on a morning walk and then train your body to try to build strength, to sit, at the page to try to get your ideas out.

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If you can do that every day, if you can face the monotony of that, right, and the repetition, if you can learn to fall in love with the monotony of difficult,

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meaningful work, you will save yourself from the onslaught of distraction and cheap dopamine and downgrading technology that we are up against.

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Make no mistake, I mean, our current reality as human beings could be called dystopian.

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I don't think that's a crazy thing to say anymore.

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This is our test.

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The cool thing is though, our war, we don't have to go storm the beaches of Normandy.

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Thank God, that's a good thing.

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What we do get to do is fight in the war of art, which is a great book by Steven Pressfield.

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Highly recommend.

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You should check it out.

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It will change your life.

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I changed mine.

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This is the war of art.

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So by engaging in your creative spark, the thing that you, the unique human on the other side of this thing can bring to the world, you will save the world and you'll save yourself.

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So get bored, de-stimulate yourself, get some rest, get some sleep, drink some water, eat some real food, wake up in the morning and then ease yourself into curiosity again.

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Give yourself some time to do this.

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It might take a day or a week or a month of trying stuff.

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And then once you find something that excites you, you're going to want to give much more time and attention to it.

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This is exactly what happened with me in short stories.

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It's the very human desire to share art with people, like the impulse that makes us tell stories around the campfire.

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You know, that's what I get to experience at scale.

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And that is a much healthier way to use the internet than trying to numb myself

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or trying to get as much meaningless attention as possible.

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You know what I mean?

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Like just try to build a following for the sake of building a following.

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No, we're not doing that.

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We're making real human art to stand up against the onslaught of slop.

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by giving yourself to this way of life, you will save the world and save yourself.

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Okay, I've said that enough times at this point.

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I think it resonates with you.

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I hope it does.

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I want to reiterate that you are capable of this.

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It's going to look different for everyone.

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Everyone's going to have different forms of contribution.

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No one's asking you to go out and create an artistic masterpiece.

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You might not even be an artist.

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Your form of contribution might be different.

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Yours might be leading other people in a company.

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Yours might be, you know, being someone who's good with numbers, right?

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And looking at, literally looking at spreadsheets and solving problems with empirical data.

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I don't know.

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Like people have a, the beautiful thing about humanity is our insane, infinite range of gifts.

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And that's what I mean to say, that's what's being flattened that's what's being taken away from us

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by all of the numbing addictive technology you have a responsibility to yourself

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and the species to figure out what you're meant to do

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and then to bring that to life um so if

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if you're in a place in life where you're like oh

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i don't have a purpose you know what i mean like

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or i don't i don't know what i'm meant to do

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with my time here it is right now you stumbled across the video on the internet

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that tells you you need to figure out you need to look inside your body right now in your brain

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and your soul and your spirit the things that I can't tell you how to find, but you know how to feel if you just stay quiet and look.

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You need to look there and figure out what you're meant to do

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and then start taking steps to bring that to life.

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This has always been the game.

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This has always been the human pursuit.

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This has always been our calling, our meaning.

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This is how we survived.

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This is how we created civilization, how we created the technology that now threatens to enslave us.

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This is how we're going to transcend through that technology and create a world that is better.

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That's what we've always done, continuous driving.

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And the cool part is it's going to be fun.

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It involves making art.

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It involves accessing your creativity.

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It involves making something that's going to make someone else's day 1% better.

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And that is so worth it.

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That is so freaking worth it.

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If it makes your day 1% better, it's worth it.

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You were not meant to numb yourself.

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You were not meant to become a dopamine zombie.

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You are capable of a lot more.

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It takes a little bit of courage to get there.

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But I want you to get as fired up about this as I am.

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I know this has been a little all over the place.

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It's been very charged with emotion because I'm angry.

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I'm angry.

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I get frustrated when I see the lack of nuance in comment sections.

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When I see people just commenting like brain rot memes in the comments

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or like when people fail to see the nuance of a story and just are only looking for a quick,

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immediate takeaway that is a one-size-fits-all sugar pill of a message.

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It's like, no, that's not what art is about.

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Art is about asking questions and having complicated conversations and not understanding right away.

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It's about the beauty and ambiguity, right?

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It's about not knowing.

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It's about being okay with uncertainty, learning to live with that.

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It's about enjoying the mystery of life rather than looking to solve it with a quick framework.

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So that's a little bit of a separate topic.

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Let me know if you want to hear more on that.

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But I'm going to keep sharing these ideas because this is very much the war of our time.

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And I want to share the field with you.

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It involves you trying to take back your brain.

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It involves you choosing to read books again.

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Not the self-improvement books that you saw on Twitter.

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Like you should like 10 books to read to become, to lock in.

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Nope.

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Go to the bookstore or the library and walk around until you see something

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that the 10 year old version of you is like that.

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Let's check that out.

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Judge your book by its cover.

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Look at the covers.

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You're like, that's interesting.

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It's not about becoming the smartest, most capable, richest, most successful person in the room.

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It is about starting to acknowledge and indulge your own childlike curiosity.

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Because then, once you stoke that fire,

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you will replace your addiction to stimulation with a real involvement in creativity.

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You'll start to see your light as a creative act on its own.

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And then you'll be excited to live.

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and that'll be worth it.

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Cool.

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That's all I got for you today.

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I love you.

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This is serious shit, but it's also going to be fun.

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I hope that makes sense.

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Look for the nuance.

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I'll see you out there.

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Have a great day.

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Mwah.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“How I trained my mind to create instead of consume”为素材。这段视频共有 281 个句子、3267 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 15:48。说话人语速较快，每分钟约 207 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

视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
numb 形容词	/nʌm/	麻木
discomfort 名词	/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/	不適 /不适, 不安
stimulate 动词	/ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/	刺激
curiosity 名词	/ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/	好奇, 好奇心
dopamine 名词	/ˈdoʊ.pəˌmin/	多巴胺
frustrate 动词	/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/	令人失望, 挫折
intrinsic 形容词	/ɪnˈtɹɪn.zɪk/	本質的, 本质的 /本质
nuance 名词	/ˈnjuː.ɑːns/	細微區別 /细微区别, 小差異 /小差异
creativity 名词	/kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/	創造力 /创造力, 創造性 /创造性
monotony 名词	/məˈnɑtəni/	單調 /单调
onslaught 名词	/ˈɒn.slɔːt/	猛攻
overwhelm 动词	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	吞沒 /吞没
addictive 形容词	/əˈdɪktɪv/	使人成癮的 /使人成瘾的
addict 名词	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	上癮的人 /上瘾的人
stimulation 名词	/stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/	刺激

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
figure out 动词	弄清楚
get up 动词	起床
go out 动词	出, 出口
take back 动词	撤回

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 think you're worried about that as well.
There's another way to live your life.
We're not prepared for this.
Will I get money from it?
You know what I mean?

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
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	I've worked · has given · haven't read
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	are faced · were given · were meant
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	stuff, which is · difficulty, which is · art, which is

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 88 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, we're, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: soothe /suːð/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, spreadsheet /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/
长单词——注意重音位置: curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, monotony /məˈnɑtəni/, stimulation /stɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/

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/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, addictive /əˈdɪktɪv/, enslave /ɪnˈsleɪv/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: discomfort /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/, stimulate /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/, intrinsic /ɪnˈtɹɪn.zɪk/, nuance /ˈnjuː.ɑːns/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, presentable /pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/

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 numb, discomfort, stimulate 这类单词。

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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本课的词汇与口语要点

视频中的重点词汇

视频中出现的短语动词

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中的语法

需要注意的发音

如何用这段视频练习

什么是跟读法？