【英会話】仕事の合間にYopi's English School動画をラジオ感覚で視聴①
Yopiさんの番組は英会話を学べるだけではなく、題材にストーリー性やメッセージ性があるので、ラジオ番組を聴く感覚で楽しめます。
動画には日本語字幕も併記されているので、聞きながら英語で理解できるように英語だけ抜き出してみました。
スマホの代わりにメモ帳を使ってたら良いことがたくさんあった話。【ネイティブ英語】
This is my notepad.
So why do I carry this thing everywhere with me?
This all started from a very well-meaning Nathaniel Drew, who is kind of notebook expert if those even exist.
And I kept bumping into this with other yourtubers where they would experiment with taking notes with a pen and paper or writing video scripts with pen and paper or scheduling or journaling and things like that.
And now in our fast paced, media consuming era, there are a select few that seem to be moving back to that, or at least rrying it out.
And despite all the fancy new apps and softwares coming out, there's just this nagging thought that perhaps we are leaving something behind that we shouldn't.
You can guess what I decided.
I mean, what if something amazing where to happen?
I instantly fell in love with it.
We went everywhere together and I never left the house without it.
I even took it a few places that I didn't take my phone.
Unlike my phone, my natepad never goes dead, never distracts me.
And above all, it has absolutely no agenda.
If I ignore it, it doesn't even try to get my attention.
Okay, this all sounds a little facetious, right?
But I'm actually, like, dead serious.
And here's why.
Attention.
Attention is one of the rarest and most valued commodities in our world today.
I'll give you an example and tell me if you can relate to this or not.
But have you ever.
Have you ever picked up your phone to do something specific, like, send a message or make a note or look something up?
And within, like 3 seconds, you had no idea.
Like, you had completely forgotten why you picked up your phone in the first place.
If that's ever happened to you, then that's a prime example of you stepping in to use a took to further your own agenda, but instead you got hijacked by something that looked a little bit more enticing in the moment and it completely derailed what you where originally trying to do at least for the moment.
One of the first things I noticed when I started carrying this thing around with me is it provided me with a place to just spill organic thoughts with zero potential to ever be distracted of for outside ideas to mingle with my own.
Speaking from past experiences, this could be anything from, making a grocery list that I'm sure my friend Zach remembers to, you know, trying to process emotions and figure out why I'm angry at a friend.
Or another aspect of this is putting down creative ideas, because a creative idea can come very quick and it can just pop in your head and if there's any kind of distraction, you can lose that.
At least I can.
And there's one more aspect of this.
That I think is really, really important.
And it's worth mentioning.
It's like
Have you ever forgot to take your phone somewhere with you?
Like for a couple of hours.
Not that you had it with you but on silent.
But you literally didn't even have it with you.
If you're anything like me, there's something different about physically being removed from something that can distract you like your phone versus just having it like with you but on silent.
And this is huge because this can literally make the difference of solving or jeopardizing a solution or a creative idea.
This will cost you $1.
So feel free to try it out for a few weeks and just see if it works for you.
What I love to do is whenever I'm in a group and everybody's their phones and it's all bored and stuff.
Instead of pulling on my phone, I'll pull out my notepad and just start writing.
It's amazing, literally no one sees it coming.
