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There are some books that stick out in my mind that have had a very, very big impact on me.
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And so I like to answer that question by not the three greatest books ever,
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but the three books that have had the most impact on my life.
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I read like thousands over the years, thousands of books for research.
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And so it's kind of like people will all of it ask you, who's your favorite child if you have a lot of children
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and you'll inevitably say it's like the last one etc
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so it'll be like the last books i read are my favorites
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but there are some that stick out in my mind
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that have had a very very big impact on me so i can remember when i was very young
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i must have been 15 or
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so i got a copy of machiavelli's the prince now i can assure you
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that i hardly understood a word of it i had never worked anywhere
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i had no knowledge of power I had never been in like a court -like environment.
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I'd never been around anybody like a prince or anything.
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But I loved that book.
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I thought it was fantastic.
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It had no relevance to my life in high school, obviously.
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But what did I love about it?
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I loved the brutal realism of it.
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I loved the fact that he was looking at human beings as if we are these animals that we are.
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And he was analyzing it without all the usual guilt, all the usual moralism what's going on in the world.
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He was just presenting us as we are.
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I didn't really understand experientially what he was talking about, but the style of it,
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the clarity, the pragmatism, the beautiful language entranced me.
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And so I've probably read that book six or seven times over the years, different formats.
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But that paperback, that really strange little spindly little, tiny little paperback that I had when I was 15.
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Boy, that had a huge impact on me.
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And you can see, obviously, the influence on my books.
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The second book, I studied ancient
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Greek in college.
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And you'll think, God, that has to be the most irrelevant subject anyone could ever study in university.
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And you're probably right.
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But it taught me some great things.
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It's the ultimate mental discipline.
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And I remember when I was in my second year, I believe, we were given Thucydides,
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we call it Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.
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It took me three days to read one paragraph in ancient Greek.
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The language was so difficult, so weird.
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I had to think about each word and sentence, etc. And I thought, I came out of that and I go,
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the style of this is so insane, it's so intricate, it's so brilliant, it's so convoluted yet logical in its own way.
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And I became an incredible fan of Thucydides.
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And obviously I read it later on in English, the whole book, and it's the most beautiful thing you can ever read
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because here you're reading about our history as humans some 2500 years ago in ancient greece
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and you've got this narrator who's
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so modern who someone could be somebody who's not sitting right next to you who has this very clear perspective
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and he's describing these events so far in the past they're so dramatic and they're so exciting and he's analyzing it brilliantly.
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I wish we had a handful of writers to this day who could be like that, who could have that clarity,
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who could have that kind of logic, who could have that kind of analytical ability.
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But it existed 2 ,500 years ago in this great historian Thucydides.
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He wrote one book that I know of, the history of the Peloponnesian War, but it's the most marvelous adventure you could ever go on.
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It's a fantastic book.
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It had a huge influence on me, almost as powerful as the Machiavelli.
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The third book is a very weird one.
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It's not something that most people know about or that I've ever really discussed, but it had a very large impact on me.
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And it's, there's a series of books written in the 60s by a writer named Carlos Castaneda.
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He was talking about the teachings of Don Juan, which is the title of one of his book.
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And he had a book called The Journey to Ixitlan.
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And if you ever pick up a copy of The Jury to Ixitlan, I think it's in the early 70s that it came out,
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1970, 71, you will understand where Robert Greene got a lot of the 48
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Laws of Power and the 33
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Strategies of War.
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These are amazing books.
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You know, sometimes I wonder if they date so well because they come from the drug period.
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And basically what it's about is the author is an anthropology student at UCLA named Carlos Castaneda
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and he goes to study indigenous Indian practices and he comes upon this Yaqui Indian.
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named Don Juan, who kind of initiates him in all of the ways of his indigenous culture.
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And it includes eventually ingesting peyote and learning to become a crow and all of these weird things that you think, wow, that's too weird.
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But a lot of it is this stuff that's all about power.
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It's all about controlling yourself.
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It's all about confronting your mortality.
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It's all about becoming this great warrior in life.
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and you know if I read it now I still love it it's not the same as
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when I read it when I was 16
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and I was getting excited about that stuff
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but it's still very impactful it's still a wonderful book
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and I'm actually using a little bit in the law of sublime
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so those are the three books
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that I think have had the largest impact on me of course
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I'm leaving out Friedrich Nietzsche who had probably the greatest impact on me of all
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but there's not one book I can single out there's like eight books
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and then of course there's my favorite novelist Dostoevsky who had a huge impact on me.
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I can't pick out one novel I have two three
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or four so that's my convoluted long -winded way of answering that question.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “3 Books That Will Change Your Life”. Las palabras que más se repiten: impact, Thucydides, weird. Este vídeo tiene 83 frases y 1048 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:14. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 168 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| indigenous adjetivo | /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/ | indígena |
| clarity sustantivo | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | claridad |
| analyze verbo | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analizar |
| paperback sustantivo | /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/ | libro de bolsillo, libro de tapa blanda |
| format sustantivo | /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/ | formato |
| adventure sustantivo | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | aventura |
| dramatic adjetivo | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | dramático |
| insane adjetivo | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | enfermo mental, enajenado |
| entrance sustantivo | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | entrada |
| discipline sustantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| warrior sustantivo | /ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/ | guerrero, guerrera |
| logical adjetivo | /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | lógico |
| guilt sustantivo | /ɡɪlt/ | culpa |
| handful sustantivo | /ˈhæn(d)fʊl/ | puñado |
| brutal adjetivo | /ˈbɹuːtəl/ | brutal |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| leave out verbo | dejar de lado | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, I've, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, irrelevant /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/, historian /hɪˈstɔɹi.ən/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, mortality /mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, irrelevant /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, relevance /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/, novelist /ˈnɑvəlɪst/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/, pragmatism /ˈpɹæɡmətɪzəm/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, logical /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, anthropology /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/, ingest /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como indigenous, clarity, analyze.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.