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Okay, today I'm gonna help you get out of a rut.

Maybe you're a creative or an ambitious person who's fallen off.

Probably you fall into these vicious cycles all the time of self -improvement

and then self -destruction where you like get your life together

and build the perfect workout program and exactly what you want out of your life.

You stay consistent with it for like a week or two

and then you fall off and you spiral back into cheap dopamine, binging.

I get it, I've been there.

I've done that many times myself

and I've gotten really good at getting out of the rut that forms when you fall into this pattern.

So all we're going to do today is just break down the process into a series of simple steps you can follow.

What I want you to do is get a journal, a piece of paper, something you can write on.

I want you to get a pen, and we're just going to think through this together.

And then you're going to take some action.

This is very simple.

It's nothing you haven't heard before.

All I'm going to do is try to give you a helpful voice in your head

that then makes you actually want to do it.

So the trick is this.

We have to recondition your brain to get satisfaction from doing difficult things.

If you have fallen off and you're in a rut, probably your brain is really addicted to getting that quick hit of pleasure

or satisfaction from scrolling or vaping or smoking weed or drinking or binge eating or watching porn, any number of cheap dopamine substances.

I get it.

Again, no shame, no guilt.

You're a human being.

Those things tend to be awesome when you're in a really bad state.

So I get it.

We have to get your brain to be like, oh, I enjoy meaningful progress.

I enjoy moving towards a goal and I enjoy facing challenge in order to get closer to that goal.

So this looks like working out.

This looks like writing.

This looks like doing the dishes, putting on clean clothes, going to the store to buy groceries, to do some of these things.

You understand the deal.

And none of it is glamorous when you do it.

But over time, your brain's going to be like, yep, I like this.

I like this.

I feel like I'm stacking up points.

It's more about getting into this state where you are seeking those things out

and it just takes a little bit of coaxing, okay?

Because right now in the rut, it feels impossible.

And then whatever creative ambition or passion in life you wanna pursue feels definitely impossible, right?

Because it's just like, how could I possibly do something difficult right now when I can't get myself out of bed?

So we're just gonna coax you into a state of doing that, okay?

And understand the power of momentum is that

if you do get your feet on the floor and then stand up and then put on clothes, take a shower, put on clothes,

do the dishes, is make yourself a single egg and then eat that and then go for a walk around the block.

If you can just stack up like 10 of those things, immediately you're going to start feeling better, right?

Now, and then over the course of the week, you're going to slowly remove the cheap dopamine substances so

that your brain naturally gets excited by the difficult challenge or by the writing practice.

If you want creative work to replace your consumption addictions, you have to remove the consumption addictions so that it becomes interesting, right?

In a world where you're distracted all the time, writing, performing music, whatever your passion is, is just not going to be that fun, right?

Or it won't be fun if your brain is overloaded with cheap dopamine you didn't earn.

You know this, I know this, we're just reviewing it again because it's good to talk about.

The real thing we need to get into is understanding the force that causes that fall -off effect, which is entropy.

Entropy means chaos.

It can also mean resistance.

Resistance as defined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art.

Resistance, or entropy, or chaos, whatever you really want to call it, is just all the shit,

internal and external, that gets in the way of you doing what you want to do, or that makes it hard.

Internal resistance, internal entropy is self -doubt.

It's the desire to be distracted.

It's the desire to do something besides what you know you should be doing.

External resistance is just all of the inconvenience of life.

It's extreme weather events.

It's having to do stuff for your job.

It's family drama.

It's all of the difficult stuff that demands your attention that you don't really want to do.

We have to learn to navigate all of this stuff.

This is a crucial skill of being a creative in the 21st century, of being a human being in the 21st century or any century.

We have to be able to face the inevitable chaos of life.

And the mistake is thinking that we can somehow not deal with chaos.

When you fantasize about your perfect locked in existence, you're very rarely factoring in all of the inevitable entropy,

when you can't sleep because you had too much caffeine during the day,

or when you have a throat infection and have to go to the doctor

and that gets in the way of your perfect dialed robotic routine.

You rarely account for these things when you're imagining, when you're fantasizing, when you're mentally masturbating about your future life.

So now we're going to get real and we're going to say these things happen and we need to somehow stay aligned,

stay connected to our more aligned identities when the inevitable chaos presents itself, because it is inevitable.

What happens when you fall off is you let entropy sweep you away.

This is my experience, at least.

I've had so many experiences where I get really locked in and I get really dialed in my lifestyle.

I start writing, I'm working out, I feel really, I feel like I'm connected to that locked in version, the future that I want to live.

And then entropy rears its ugly head, internal or external.

Internal being, oh, I get distracted

And then now I don't feel like I'm, um, who I said I was or external entropy.

I get sick.

I get a throat infection.

I get a gut infection that happened to me this summer.

I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

And then suddenly you're like, oh, I'm not perfect.

The whole system is going to collapse.

I am.

I can't do this.

I can't be perfect.

So I'm not going to do it at all.

And this typically happens gradually.

But you see the problem, right?

It's like this this isn't going to work for us.

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The real skill we have to build is being able to ride the wave of entropy, chaos, inevitable discomfort, inconvenience, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, without losing ourselves and being able to engage with the system imperfectly.

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So what I'll invite

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you to do is I'd like you to take the pen on the piece of paper you took out,

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and I want you to write down just exactly what happened the last time you fell off maybe this was today, maybe this was last week.

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I just want you to write out the sequence of events that led to it.

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And I want you to look for the pattern in there.

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Notice where the entropy comes in.

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Was it internal or external, right?

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Was it something that happened that was outside your control that then made you give up on yourself?

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Or was it something internal?

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And then you kind of bought back into the narrative of being not locked in, of being undisciplined, of being weak, a shameful, addicted creature.

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You see how these narratives inform our actions, right?

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When we believe that we are addicted, helpless, we tend to do those things more.

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When we believe that we are locked in, that we're disciplined, that we're powerful creatures that can do amazing things,

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we typically engage with the meaningful challenge a little bit more.

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And the way that you influence that narrative is through the action.

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Forget about the imagining who you want to be and just do the things.

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Action rewires the whole narrative.

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And that's the power of doing a million small things.

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Not a million, but like a hundred small things.

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Get out of bed, put on clean clothes, take a shower, do a workout, go for a walk, listen to music,

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listen to a song that makes you feel like yourself.

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Write down every single thing you can about what you're struggling with.

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And then you start to feel like a human being again.

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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“How to get out of creative block”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：entropy, internal, chaos。这段视频共有 124 个句子、1522 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 7:13。说话人语速较快，每分钟约 211 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。 84% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

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
chaos 名词	/ˈkeɪˌɑs/	混沌
inevitable 形容词	/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/	不可避免, 總會 /总会
narrative 名词	/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/	記敘文 /记叙文
cloth 名词	/klɒθ/	布, 布料
infection 名词	/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/	傳染 /传染
distract 动词	/dɪˈstɹækt/	分心
addict 名词	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	上癮的人 /上瘾的人
passion 名词	/ˈpæʃən/	激情, 熱情 /热情
rarely 副词	/ˈɹɛəɹli/	很少, 罕有地
skill 名词	/skɪl/	技巧, 技能
connect 动词	/kəˈnɛkt/	連接 /连接
consumption 名词	/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/	消費 /消费
throat 名词	/ˈθɹoʊt/	嗓子, 喉嚨 /喉咙
substance 名词	/ˈsʌbstəns/	物質 /物质
dish 名词	/dɪʃ/	碟子, 盤子 /盘子

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	发音	释义
work out 动词	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	計算 /计算, 算出
write down 动词		寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下
break down 动词		壞了 /坏了, 出故障
stand up 动词		站起來 /站起来, 起來 /起来
take out 动词		取出

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 get it, I've been there.
It's nothing you haven't heard before.
I feel like I'm stacking up points.
It's having to do stuff for your job.
I'll tell you some other time, but like crazy.

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 been · I've done · I've gotten
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is really addicted · is overloaded · be distracted

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 50 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, I'm, we're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: cloth /klɒθ/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
长单词——注意重音位置: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: chaos /ˈkeɪˌɑs/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, cloth /klɒθ/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/, addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rarely /ˈɹɛəɹli/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, gradually /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/, scroll /skɹoʊl/

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 chaos, inevitable, narrative 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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