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People often ask me, does work make you happy?
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And the answer is it can.
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But we have to understand how.
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It's a real skill.
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The biggest mistake that people make about work and happiness is thinking that success in worldly terms is going to bring happiness.
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And it's not true.
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That's true.
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The worldly success from work has to do with money and power and the admiration of other people and job titles, et cetera, et cetera.
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And a lot of people mistakenly think that those markers of success will bring happiness in its wake.
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In other words, be successful, get happy automatically.
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That's exactly wrong.
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I've done research for years as an economist on labor markets and the characteristics of work.
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And it's true that you need to make an income where you can support yourself and your family.
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But that doesn't bring happiness.
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That just eliminates the sources of unhappiness.
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To get actual happiness from work, you need to seek two things, and really two things only.
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We call them earned success and service to others.
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Service to others is pretty self-explanatory.
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I can talk about that in a second.
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Earned success, not so much.
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That's the opposite of what psychologists refer to as learned helplessness, where nothing you do really matters, and so you kind of give up.
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It's also associated with depression and loneliness in the workplace, et cetera.
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You don't want learned helplessness, that's for sure.
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You want earned success where you feel like you're creating value with your life, value with your work, value in the lives of other people through your work, and it's being acknowledged and recognized.
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That's how earned success works.
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That's why it's so critically important that people who are bosses, people who are managers, that they help other people to earn their success and they recognize the value that people are creating.
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That's why meritocracy is so critically important for people to get actual joy from their work.
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The second is service to other people.
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You have to feel like your job matters to others and you're lightening somebody else's load.
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Then you'll go to work with joy.
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It's weird.
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The data are pretty clear that it doesn't actually matter to a certain extent what the job is.
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You know, I've done experiments with people where they say, I feel like I'm a drone.
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I feel like I'm a cog in a machine.
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And then they'll do something like, through the experimentation process, They'll start getting coffee for the people in the next cubicle at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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You look like you could use a fresh cup of coffee.
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And mysteriously, they start to like their jobs better.
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Why is that?
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Because we're made to serve other people.
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If you can build your work into something that's meaningful to you because you're truly earning your success and recognized for it, and you're serving other people, and on top of that,
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you're doing something you're really good at, work's going to bring you joy.
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100% guaranteed.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Can Work Make You Happy? Should It? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : success, happiness, earned, value, cetera. Cette vidéo contient 43 phrases et 510 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:40. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 192 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 88 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| helplessness nom | /ˈhɛlplɪsnɪs/ | manque de défense, impuissance |
| worldly adjectif | /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/ | mondain |
| cubicle nom | /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/ | box |
| experimentation nom | /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/ | expérimentation |
| explanatory adjectif | /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/ | explicatif |
| meritocracy nom | /mɛɹəˈtɑkɹəsi/ | méritocratie |
| mistakenly adverbe | /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/ | à tort |
| mysteriously adverbe | mystérieusement | |
| unhappiness nom | tristesse, malheur | |
| admiration nom | /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | admiration |
| loneliness nom | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | solitude |
| psychologist nom | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | psychologue |
| marker nom | /ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/ | marqueur |
| economist nom | /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ | économiste |
| characteristic nom | /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/ | caractéristique |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| give up verbe | se rendre |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- People often ask me, does work make you happy?
- You don't want learned helplessness, that's for sure.
- Then you'll go to work with joy.
- I feel like I'm a cog in a machine.
- Because we're made to serve other people.
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 17 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, doesn't, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: experimentation /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, experimentation /ɪkˌspɛɹ.ə.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/, explanatory /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/, meritocracy /mɛɹəˈtɑkɹəsi/, mistakenly /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme helplessness, worldly, cubicle.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.