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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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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Fighting Workaholism: You Are Not a Success Machine”. Las palabras que más se repiten: relationship, addiction, success, behavior, strivers. Este vídeo tiene 109 frases y 1207 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 6:27. El hablante habla rápido, unas 187 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 17 de sus 109 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| addiction sustantivo | /əˈdɪkˌʃən/ | adicción, vicio |
| friendship sustantivo | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | amistad, amistanza (disused) |
| spouse sustantivo | /spaʊ̯s/ | cónyuge, consorte |
| reward sustantivo | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | recompensa |
| addictive adjetivo | /əˈdɪktɪv/ | adictivo, que crea dependencia |
| spiritual adjetivo | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | espiritual |
| incredibly adverbio | /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/ | increíblemente |
| exhibit verbo | /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ | exhibir |
| sneak verbo | /sniːk/ | moverse con sigilo |
| critically adverbio | /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/ | críticamente |
| excel verbo | /ɪkˈsɛl/ | aventajar, superar |
| adventure sustantivo | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | aventura |
| moral adjetivo | /ˈmoɹəl/ | moral |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | comparar, parangonar |
| guarantee sustantivo | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | garantía, caución |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verbo | crecer | |
| take away verbo | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | quitar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- 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?
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have found · you've objectified · You've taken |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | profound, which is · people who are · people who love |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 36 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/, fruition /fɹuˈɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, deleterious /ˌdɛ.ləˈtɪɹ.i.əs/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spouse /spaʊ̯s/, spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, sneak /sniːk/, snap /snæp/, strive /ˈstɹaɪv/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: addictive /əˈdɪktɪv/, adventure /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, defensive /dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, revenge /ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: exhibit /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/, wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/, metaphysical /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪkəl/
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 addiction, friendship, spouse.
¿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.