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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,

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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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本课的词汇与口语要点

这节口语课以视频“stop trying to categorize yourself”为素材。这段视频共有 80 个句子、1142 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 8:05。说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 141 个词，很适合跟读。 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
collect 动词	/ˈkɑlɪkt/	庋藏, 收藏
define 动词	/dɪˈfaɪn/	界定
sponsor 名词	/ˈspɒn.səː/	保證人 /保证人
coherent 形容词	/koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/	凝聚的
finger 名词	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	手指, 指頭 /指头
clothing 名词	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	衣服, 衣裳
ridiculous 形容词	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	可笑, 荒謬 /荒谬
discovery 名词	/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/	發現 /发现
label 名词	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	標籤 /标签, 簽條 /签条
aspect 名词	/ˈæspɛkt/	方面
steal 动词	/stiːl/	偷, 盜 /盗
string 名词	/stɹɪŋ/	線 /线
equally 副词	/ˈiːkwəli/	一樣地 /一样地, 同樣地 /同样地
silly 形容词	/ˈsɪl.i/	愚蠢, 笨
belong 动词	/bɪˈlɒŋ/	屬於 /属于

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
figure out 动词	弄清楚
find out 动词	找出, 查明

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
现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作	i've been asking · I've been treating · have happily been living
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	is sponsored · must be understood · be understood
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 curated · have laid · I've just had

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 22 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I've, couldn't, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

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

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: niche /nɪt͡ʃ/, sake /ˈseɪ̯k/, collect /ˈkɑlɪkt/, coherent /koʊˈhɛɹ.ənt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, scroll /skɹoʊl/, harmless /ˈhɑɹmləs/

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 collect, define, sponsor 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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