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First, you're going to fail sometimes, and that's a good thing.
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For all the amazing successes I've been lucky to share, and few things have shaped me more than the auditions that Ben and I used to go on as young actors, where we'd get on a bus, we'd show up in New York,
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we'd wait our turn, we'd cry our hearts out for a scene, and then be told, okay, thanks, meaning game over.
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We used to call it being okay-thanksed.
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And those experiences became our armor.
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Alright, now you're thinking, great, thanks Matt.
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Failure is good, thanks a ton.
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Tell me something I didn't hear at my high school graduation.
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To which I say, okay, I will.
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You know the real danger for MIT graduates?
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It's not getting okay thanksed.
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The real danger is all that smoke that's been blown up your graduation gowns about how freaking smart you are.
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Well, you are that smart.
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But don't believe the hype that's thrown at you.
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You don't have all the answers, and you shouldn't, and that's fine.
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You're going to have your share of bad ideas.
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For one, or for me, one was playing a character named Edgar Pudwacker.
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I wish I could tell you I'm making that up.
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But as the great philosopher Benjamin Affleck once said, judge me by how good my good ideas are, not how bad my bad ideas are.
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You've got to suit up in your armor, you've got to get ready to sound like a total fool.
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Not having an answer isn't embarrassing, it's an opportunity.
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Don't be afraid to ask questions.
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I know so much less the second time I'm fake graduating than the first time.
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The second thing I want to leave you with is you got to keep listening.
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The world wants to hear your ideas, good and bad, but today is not the day you switch from receive to transmit.
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Once you do that, your education is over and your education should never be over.
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But whatever you do, just keep listening, even to people you don't agree with at all.
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I love what President Obama said at Howard University's commencement last month.
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He said, democracy requires compromise even when you are 100% right.
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I heard that and thought, here is a man who has been happily married for a long time.
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Not that the First Lady has ever been wrong about anything.
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Just like my wife, never wrong.
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Not even when she decided last month
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that in a family with four kids what was missing in our lives was a third rescue dog.
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That was an outstanding decision, honey.
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And I love you.
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But not every problem has a high-tech solution.
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Now, if anybody has the right to think we can pretty much tech support the world's problems into submission, it's you.
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Think of the innovations that got their start at MIT or by MIT alums.
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The World Wide Web, nuclear fission, condensed soup.
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That's true.
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You should be very proud of that.
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But the truth is, we can't science the you-know-what out of every problem.
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What are you going to be a part of?
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What is the problem that you will try to solve?
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Whatever your answer, it is not going to be easy.
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Sometimes your work will hit a dead end.
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Sometimes your work will be measured in half steps.
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Sometimes your work will make you wear a white sequined military uniform and make love to Michael Douglas.
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All right, maybe that's just my work.
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But for all of you here, your work starts today.
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And seriously, how lucky are you?
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I mean, what are the odds that you're the ones who are here today?
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In the earth's 4.5 billion year run, with 100 billion people who have lived and died,
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and the seven billion of us here now, here you are.
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Yes, here you are.
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Alive at a time of potential extinction-level events, a time when fewer and fewer people can cause more and more damage,
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a time when science and technology may not hold all the answers but are indispensable to any solution.
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what are the odds
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that you get to be you right now there are potentially trillions of human beings who will someday exist
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or not whose fate in large part depends on the choices you make on your ideas on your grit
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and persistence and willingness to engage
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if this were a movie i was trying to pitch i'd
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be laughed out of every office in hollywood joseph campbell himself would tell me to throttle down
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and lower the stakes but i can't
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because this is a fact this is not fiction this improbable
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thing is actually happening there's more at stake today than in any story ever told
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and how lucky you are that you're here and you're you
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and how lucky we are that you are here
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and you are you so i hope you'll turn toward the problem of your choosing
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This is your moment and it is all down to you.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “You still have a lot to fight for”. Las palabras que más se repiten: ideas, lucky, answer, Mit, billion. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 853 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:09. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 166 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| armor sustantivo | /ˈɑːɹ.mɚ/ | armadura, blindaje |
| graduation sustantivo | /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/ | graduación |
| stake sustantivo | /steɪk/ | estaca |
| commencement sustantivo | /kəˈmɛnsmənt/ | incoación |
| condense verbo | /kənˈdɛns/ | condensar |
| embarrass verbo | /ɪmˈbæɹəs/ | avergonzar, abochornar |
| fission sustantivo | /ˈfɪʃən/ | fisión |
| improbable adjetivo | /ɪmˈpɹɑbəbl̩/ | improbable, inverosímil |
| indispensable adjetivo | /ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəl/ | imprescindible, indispensable |
| throttle sustantivo | /ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/ | acelerador |
| persistence sustantivo | /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/ | persistencia, perseverancia |
| transmit verbo | /tɹænsˈmɪt/ | transmitir |
| philosopher sustantivo | /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/ | filósofo, filósofa |
| gown sustantivo | /ˈɡaʊ̯n/ | manto, capa |
| extinction sustantivo | /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/ | extinción |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- You're going to have your share of bad ideas.
- What are you going to be a part of?
- What is the problem that you will try to solve?
- All right, maybe that's just my work.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto | used to go · used to call |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've been · that's been blown · has been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be told · been blown · will be measured |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | man who has · ones who are · people who have |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 26 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, we'd. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, fission /ˈfɪʃən/, extinction /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, submission /səbˈmɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, indispensable /ˌɪndɪˈspɛnsəbəl/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hype /haɪp/, happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/
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 armor, graduation, stake.
¿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.