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as a social scientist I'm intensely interested in addictive behaviors a lot of people watching
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this video right now they're watching it because they want an edge
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and that's great I admire that you're strivers so am I
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but strivers in the striving process
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they open themselves up to one of the most deleterious addictive behaviors known to mankind and that's workaholism people
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People will work hard, it will create dysfunction in their relationships, they will exhibit hiding behavior where they're sneaking around.
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You don't believe it?
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Well, ask yourself, do you sometimes sneak into the bathroom to check your email, your work email?
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Do you snap shut your laptop computer on a Sunday afternoon when your partner comes home?
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Yeah, yeah, well you're doing it too.
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People get defensive when people question how much they're working, well that's classic addictive behavior.
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Now, I have found in my own work that workaholism actually isn't the primary addiction.
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It's a secondary addiction.
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The primary addiction for most strivers is an addiction to success.
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Success is achieving something of merit and being rewarded for it.
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Many strivers, many of my students, me, look, I'm guilty here.
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We feel fully alive when amazing things are happening and we're able to create value.
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And we don't feel fully alive when we're not doing those things, quite frankly.
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It's a real reward to see something come to fruition, to get that deal, to finish that book in my case,
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to teach a class that goes incredibly well, to get that compliment.
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A lot of that success addiction behavior is neurophysiological as a matter of fact.
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You find that people actually get dopamine in a way, that's a neuromodulator that's implicated in all forms of human addiction,
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that they get dopamine specifically when they feel that they're succeeding at work.
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And while they keep seeking those rewards, they keep seeking success, and seeking success is hard.
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You have to excel, and you have to excel compared to other people, and that means you need to outwork other people,
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and that leads to the work addiction.
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The underlying problem is success addiction.
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Behind that, there's actually something even more profound, which is a tendency to reduce yourself to nothing more than a success machine.
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That's a problem.
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That's a moral problem, as a matter of fact you're more than a success machine.
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You're not a robot.
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Neither am I.
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But when you see yourself as the most excellent person, so very special, you've objectified yourself.
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You've taken away a big piece of your humanity.
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Here's basically how I sum this up.
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If you're exhibiting workaholic behavior, you need to deal with it.
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But then the next question is, okay, how do I stop?
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How do I stop?
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Is there a 12 -step program?
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Is there some detox center that I can get into?
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And the answer
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The answer is no, although a lot of people do need to seek help from mental health professionals for this.
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The answer to this is to actually build your team on
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the people who are going to give you the opportunities to do things that are actually more satisfying than that.
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You need to actually take the people that you love the most and that perhaps you've been neglecting and ask them,
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what do you think I should do?
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What do you actually think I should do instead of that?
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But for workaholics, the primary relationship, love relationship in their life is with work.
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That's not a good love relationship because work can't really love you back.
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Work takes.
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Work doesn't give.
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That means usually you need to cultivate the relationships with the people that really can love you back.
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Who are these people?
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Well, I recommend that people actually start to develop a serious spiritual life, a serious spiritual practice, whether it's a religious experience or not
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that depends on different people maybe
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that means reading the wisdom literature getting in touch with the stoic philosophers
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you know studying the works of Johann Sebastian Bach I don't know going back to the faith of your youth
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but something that gives you a relationship with the divine people who are married is doubling
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and tripling down on the on the metaphysical beauty that actually can
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and should be your marital relationship that might be the first time in years you've actually been able to work on that.
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With your children, that was a big one for me, I'm telling you.
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I mean, I can't tell you the number of times
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that I spent that 14th hour in the office instead of my first hour with my kids when they were little.
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Why?
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Because I had to be special instead of happy, right?
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Workaholic special, that's for sure.
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And they got, you know, they got revenge.
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You know what they did?
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They grew up and I wasn't there for a lot of it.
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Well, now, now it's not going to be that way.
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I have deeper friendships than I ever had before, and I recommend that people actually start to develop these real friendships.
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You know, the problem that CEOs have is they have lots of deal friends, but not that many real friends.
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Deal and real.
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You know the difference.
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Deal friends are incredibly useful.
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Real friends are useless.
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They're just people who love you.
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Cultivating those friendships can be the most exciting adventure that you've had in a really, really long time.
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The bottom line is basically this.
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What substitutes for work?
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The answer is love with humans.
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That's what it comes down to.
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Because happiness is love, full stop.
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Okay, how?
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Give me the algorithm, man.
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And I get it, you know, I want that too.
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And so I do have a lot of rules of thumb that I suggest.
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Real friendship has to extend beyond your spouse, for example.
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So real friends are people that you just love.
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You don't need anything from them and they don't need anything from you.
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You really are not going to be getting the benefit
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that you need from your relationships if your only real friend is your spouse.
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And that's typically the case with a lot of strivers.
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So making real friendship, what we call companion and love with a spouse is critically important, but you need at least one more.
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At least one more person.
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And so working on that is critically important.
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Only one more is, it might be the right number for introverts.
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Extroverts, on the other hand, need more friends than that.
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Start with your spouse, if you're married, then move on to one or two
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or three people with whom you can make a real connection and start investing in that relationship.
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And that means if, you know, that person lives in Atlanta, get on the plane, man get on the plane.
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Say, let's go do something for half a day.
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What do you say?
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And they'll be like, you're coming here to do that, to see me?
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You're like, yep, it'll be super fun.
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I guarantee that you actually do that.
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But that's where the investment starts.
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And those are the numbers that we're trying to talk about.
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And anybody can do that.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „Fighting Workaholism: You Are Not a Success Machine“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: relationship, addiction, success, behavior, strivers. Dieses Video enthält 109 Sätze und 1207 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 6:27. Der Sprecher spricht schnell, etwa 187 Wörter pro Minute – rechne mit verbundenen und verkürzten Lauten. 85 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen. 17 der 109 Sätze sind Fragen – gut, um Frageintonation und kurze Antworten zu üben.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| addiction Substantiv | /əˈdɪkˌʃən/ | Abhängigkeit, Sucht |
| friendship Substantiv | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | Freundschaft |
| spouse Substantiv | /spaʊ̯s/ | Gatte, Gattin |
| reward Substantiv | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Belohnung, Lohn |
| addictive Adjektiv | /əˈdɪktɪv/ | süchtig machend, verführerisch |
| spiritual Adjektiv | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | geistig |
| incredibly Adverb | /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/ | unglaublich |
| exhibit Verb | /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ | zeigen, zur Schau stellen |
| sneak Verb | /sniːk/ | schleichen, (sich) anschleichen |
| excel Verb | /ɪkˈsɛl/ | ausstechen, übersteigen |
| adventure Substantiv | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | Abenteuer |
| moral Adjektiv | /ˈmoɹəl/ | moralisch |
| compare Verb | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | vergleichen, komparieren |
| guarantee Substantiv | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | Garantie |
| happiness Substantiv | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | Glück, Glücklichkeit |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| grow up Verb | aufwachsen, erwachsen werden | |
| take away Verb | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | wegnehmen |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- You don't believe it?
- You've taken away a big piece of your humanity.
- Here's basically how I sum this up.
- How do I stop?
- You know what they did?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have found · you've objectified · You've taken |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | profound, which is · people who are · people who love |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 36 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel you're, don't, they're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/, fruition /fɹuˈɪʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, deleterious /ˌdɛ.ləˈtɪɹ.i.əs/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/, outwork /ˈaʊtwɜːk/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, addictive /əˈdɪktɪv/, defensive /dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/, extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/, succeed /səkˈsiːd/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/, snap /snæp/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie addiction, friendship, spouse.
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