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Define success for yourself.
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You already like that one?
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Define success for yourself.
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Now check this out.
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I'm in South of New Orleans a few years ago and I went to a voodoo shop.
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And they had this wooden partition against the wall of these columns.
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And in these columns were all these vials of these magic potions, right?
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And the headings above each potion defining what they would give you were things like fertility,
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health, family, legal health, energy, forgiveness, money.
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Guess which column was empty?
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Money.
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Let's admit it.
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Money is king today.
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It's what makes the world go round.
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It is success.
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The more we have, the more successful we are, right?
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Now, I would argue that our cultural values have even been financialized.
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Financialized.
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Humility is not in vogue anymore.
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It's too passive.
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It's a get -rich -quick -on -the -internet -richest -fifteen -minutes -of -fame world that we live in, and we see it every day.
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But we all want to succeed, right?
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So the question that we've got to ask ourselves is, what success is to us?
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What success is to you?
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Is it more money?
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That's fine.
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I got nothing against money.
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I don't.
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Maybe it's a healthy family.
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Maybe it's a happy marriage.
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Maybe it's to help others, to be famous, to be spiritually sound, to leave the world a little bit better place than you found it.
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Continue to ask yourself that question.
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Now, your answer may change over time, and that's fine.
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But do yourself this favor.
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Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul.
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Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.
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Don't drink the Kool -Aid, man.
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It tastes sweet, but you will get cavities tomorrow.
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Life is not a popularity contest.
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Be brave, take the hill, but first answer that question, what's my hill?
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So, me, how do I define success for me, myself?
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Well, for me, it's a measurement of five things.
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We got fatherhood, we got being a good husband, we got my health, mind, body and spirit, we got career and we got friendships.
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These are what's important to me in my life right now.
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So I try to measure these five things each day.
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I check in with them.
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I like to see whether or not I'm in the debit section or the credit section with each one.
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Am I in the red or am I in the black?
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You follow?
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For instance, sometimes say my career is rolling.
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All right, it's way up here in the black, but I see how my relationship with my wife maybe could use a little bit more of my attention.
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I got to pick up the slack on being a better husband.
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Get that one out of the red.
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Or say my spiritual health could use some maintenance.
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It's down here, but hey, man, my friendships and my social life, they're in high gear, right?
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I got to recalibrate.
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checks and balances.
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I got to go to church.
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Remember to say thank you more often, something.
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But I got to take the tally because I want to keep all five in healthy shape.
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And I know that if I don't take care of them, if I don't keep up maintenance on them, one of them is going to get weak, man.
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It's going to dip too deep into the debit section.
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It's going to go bankrupt.
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It's gonna get sick, die even.
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So first, we have to define success for ourselves.
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And then, we have to put in the work to maintain it.
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Take that daily tally.
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Tend our garden.
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Keep the things that are important to us in good shape.
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I mean, let's admit it.
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We've all got two wolves in us.
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A good one and a bad one.
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And they both wanna eat.
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The best I can tell, we just gotta feed that good one a little more than the other one.
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If you're gonna do it, do it.
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say what you can do do what you say you can't
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do it don't say you can do it don't over leverage yourself don't over leverage the decision
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and then jump in
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and kind of dip a toe i think i'll try it out no think
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if you're going to try it out beforehand but when it's time to go dive
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finish it find out come out the other side don't leave it and go
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if i just would uh -uh
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that keeps me up at night i think it keeps a lot of us up at night
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when you half -ass something and you just don't know whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going,
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I didn't half -ass it.
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I went all the way.
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I found out.
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And that ain't for me.
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Or I found out and you're damn right that is for me.
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That's a great place to get to.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “what does success mean to you?”. Las palabras que más se repiten: success, define, column, section, answer. Este vídeo tiene 90 frases y 849 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:13. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 163 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| potion sustantivo | /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/ | poción, potingue |
| tally verbo | /ˈtæli/ | escrutar, contabilizar |
| debit sustantivo | /ˈdɛb.ɪt/ | débito |
| leverage sustantivo | /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | palanca, palanqueo |
| antagonize verbo | /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/ | antagonizar, contrariar |
| fatherhood sustantivo | /ˈfɑːðəːˌhʊd/ | paternidad |
| jeopardize verbo | /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/ | poner en peligro, perjudicar |
| prioritize verbo | /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/ | priorizar |
| spiritually adverbio | espiritualmente | |
| humility sustantivo | /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/ | humildad |
| cavity sustantivo | /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/ | cavidad |
| beforehand adverbio | /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/ | de antemano, anticipadamente |
| partition sustantivo | /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/ | parte |
| vogue sustantivo | /vəʊɡ/ | boga, voga |
| slack adjetivo | /slæk/ | flojo, holgado |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse | |
| come out verbo | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | revelarse, salir a la luz |
| keep up verbo | continuar con, continuar así | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You already like that one?
- What success is to you?
- Am I in the red or am I in the black?
- I mean, let's admit it.
- We've all got two wolves in us.
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, you're, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: potion /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/, partition /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/, measurement /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, recalibrate /ˌɹiˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, cavity /ˈkæv.ɪt.i/, vogue /vəʊɡ/, forgiveness /fɚˈɡɪvnəs/, passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: columns /ˈkɑləmz/, antagonize /ænˈtæɡ.ɪ.naɪz/, jeopardize /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/
- /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, jeopardize /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/
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 potion, tally, debit.
¿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.