Pratique du Shadowing: ENGLISH SPEECH | P.V. SINDHU: Just show up (English Subtitles) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Today we feature PV Sindhu, Olympic medalist and one of India's greatest athletes.
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In this moving graduation speech, she shares four unforgettable lessons from her journey.
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The value of effort the role of failure, the strength of community, and the importance of joy.
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Watch, learn, and be inspired to just show up.
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To the respected Vice Chancellor, the flame governing board, Nimish Ankl, the incredible faculty, proud parents,
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doting grandparents, lifelong friends, and most importantly, the graduating class of 2025.
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This isn't just a speech for me.
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Well, this is personal.
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Because, well, I didn't study here, but my husband did.
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But ever since we met, flame hasn't stopped showing up in my life.
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My husband is from here.
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My manager Anant is from here.
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Some of his closest friends are from here.
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His bike is from here, his heart is from here.
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What can I say?
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So even though I didn't walk these corridors as a student, I've heard so many stories.
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Sat through so many, bro, I can't explain it.
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You had to be there.
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Oh bro, you never chill on the cricket ground.
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Flame movements.
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That honestly, it feels like I also graduated from here too.
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And the cherry On top, my husband never attended his own graduation ceremony.
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It fell on the same day as his parents 25th anniversary and he choose them, of course.
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- So when Nimish uncle called and asked if I'd give this speech,
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I just smiled and thought.
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What a beautiful full circle.
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Today, I finally get to attend a flame graduation.
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Thank you and drag my husband along with me too.
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So trust me when I say I'm not taking this moment for granted.
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Before we dive in, a small promise.
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I won't bore you with a long serious sleep inducing monologue.
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Already it's been a long day I understand.
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So please pair with me.
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I know you all...
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been waiting to see Waiting to toss your hats.
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Take 4000 pictures, photos, post captions like next chapter begins
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or she believed she could and maybe open that very chill bottle of water guys, water.
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So instead of advice, let me offer you a few lessons I've learnt.
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The hard way, the funny way and the humbling way.
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These are the lessons that have stayed with me.
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from 4 am wake up calls to Olympic podiums and I hope at least one of them stays with you too.
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So here is lesson number one.
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Dreams are free, but effort never is.
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Let's rewind.
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It was eight years old when my father and Arjuna awardee himself received his medal.
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I remember him proudly showing me his card that read PV Ramana Arjuna awardee.
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And what did I do?
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I took a pen.
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scratched out his name and instead wrote mine.
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Pee -wee Sindhu.
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Cute right?
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Here's the thing about dreams though they don't come with fine point They don't tell you about the 4 :00 AM alarms.
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They don't tell you about driving 150 kilometers to train every day for 10 years straight.
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They don't tell you about missing weddings, parties, school trips or even my own sister's wedding because of a tournament.
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Or the nights we cry quietly into your pillow.
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only to wake up the next day and pretend everything is fine.
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That's the part nobody claps for.
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That's the rent.
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Every dream demands.
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People often ask me, Sindhu, how do you stay motivated?
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Let me tell you a secret.
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Well I don't, not everyday.
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Not every week.
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But what I do is show up.
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Just show up.
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Even on days, I didn't feel like it, especially on the days.
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I didn't feel like it.
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And I want to say, this to every graduate here today.
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You are not always going to feel inspired.
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You are not always going to...
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Feel strong.
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But if you show up, you're already ahead of most.
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Because The truth is this, dreams are free, but effort is never is.
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And the rent?
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It's due every single day.
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That's lesson number one guys.
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Well, lesson number two.
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Failure is the greatest coach you'll ever have.
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Let's fast forward to the Rio Olympics 2016.
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I made it to the finals.
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The whole country was watching.
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The pressure?
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Unreal.
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I played my heart out but I lost.
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Silver medal.
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Now to the world it looked like victory.
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But in my heart, It felt like defeat.
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because I knew I had almost done it.
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Almost.
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That night I sat alone and cried.
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And no. not a cute Instagram tears kind of cry.
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It was an ugly, full body.
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I give Everything.
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It still wasn't enough.
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Kind of a cry.
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And the worst part, It wasn't the last time.
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I lost two world championship finals after that.
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I got labelled as a girl who always comes second.
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People whispered maybe she doesn't have the edge anymore.
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And for a while I believed them, I seriously believed them.
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Until one day.
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after a particularly brutal loss.
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My coach sat beside me and asked, So What do you need to do? what you want to do now.
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And my answer was simple.
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I'm not done.
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That's it.
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Not a quote.
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For a coffee mug?
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not a dramatic movie.
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Movement Just, I'm not done.
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because Failure doesn't stop you.
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Doubt does.
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And if you want to do something big in life,
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You're going to have to fail Repeatedly lot of times publicly sometimes even Hilariously.
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But each time you fall, Ask yourself one question.
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Am I done?
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And the answer is no. get up again.
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Let me give you the most personal example I can.
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Thank you.
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Tokyo 2021.
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COVID has delayed.
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The Olympics by year.
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I came in rain mentally, physically, emotionally.
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possibly the hardest year of my life.
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In the semi -finals, I face my dear friend Tai Zuing.
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One of the craziest players.
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in the spot.
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has never seen and I lost.
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I didn't sleep that night.
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I cried straight through.
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and then badminton That's one of the...
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cruel things it can, it asks you to show up again the next day morning. for bronze.
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I had mixed emotions.
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I mean, I didn't know what to do.
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But I think I had only chance and my father told me that You know?
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It's a bronze or nothing.
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That kept me going.
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The next day, no space for grief.
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No time to reflect.
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Just another match.
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Another fight.
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But somehow, but somehow I did it.
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and I won that bronze medal for the country.
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And I'm proud to say that I'm the only badminton Indian woman to get two Olympic bronze medals.
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Thank you.
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It wasn't just a podium finish.
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It was I think my piece I can say that I've done everything that I could.
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to stand on the podium.
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And you'd think that it was the toughest I've had to be but it wasn't.
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Let's move to the Commonwealth Games 2022. in Birmingham.
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I've had a great year, three titles already.
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But there was one medal missing from my cabinet, Commonwealth Gold.
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I've had bronze, I've had silver.
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But in 2018 I lost to my Competitive.
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Sign up. That hurt.
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I wanted this one very badly.
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In the quarter finals I went for a jump smash and a shot I probably hit 5 ,000 times in my life.
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in my career.
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It was one of the natural movements so far for me.
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But this time as I landed, I heard it.
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A sharp ugly sound.
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a sharp ugly sound in my heel and deep down I knew Something had gone.
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very wrong.
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I finished the match in pain, went back, my physio looked at me and said, we might have to head home.
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it was a broken foot and I started crying, didn't know what to do But there was no time for me to grieve.
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No time to pause.
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Two more matches still stood between me and the gold and I chased for years, which I chased for years.
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My foot was swollen and I couldn't fit into my shoe.
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We had to cut it open on the side.
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And yet, I plead through the pain Truffio.
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through a body that was literally breaking down.
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I played for the flag on my chest.
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For the girl who scratched her dad's name, of that Arjuna card.
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For the medal that had slipped away once before.
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to full matches one shattered heel, one heart that refused to give up and I won.
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That missing goal finally, finally is mine.
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Sometimes you just show up after a failure.
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Sometimes you show up while braking.
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Because in sport, and in life Of course, you have to always show up no matter what.
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That is lesson number two guys.
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Failure is the greatest coach you'll ever have.
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Lesson number three.
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Nobody wins alone.
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Let me bust a myth for you.
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Despite what headlines love to say, there is no such thing as self -made.
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Every medal I've won, every podium I've stood on, It may have been me out there on court But behind the scenes,
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there was always an entire Ami.
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Coaches, Physios, Trainers Parents.
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Friends.
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Mentors teammates, drivers, cooks, messieurs.
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People who believed in me, sometimes even on the days I didn't believe in myself.
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My dad once told me, Champions aren't born, they are built.
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brick by brick by the people around them.
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And I've lived that truth every single day.
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When I was 13, my coach made a few Few of our juniors sweep the code before practice.
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Well at that time I thought it was a punishment.
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Later I understood.
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He was teaching us that no role is beneath you while you are building up something great.
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Humility was the first lesson.
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Years later, before the Rio Olympics, my coach did something even more extreme.
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He took my phone away and sugar for whole three months.
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Yes, I know it sounds like a Black Mirror episode, I understand.
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But back then he believed I needed total focus.
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And maybe he was right.
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I made it to the Olympic final.
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After the match, when I won silver, he handed the phone over to me.
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and smiled and said, Well done, now go order your ice cream.
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That little moment, the phone, the silver, the ice cream, that was our gold.
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See, the world celebrates the player.
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But I know better.
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I've been built by early morning rides, late night peep talks, brutal losses and quiet comebacks.
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but the faith of people who never asked for credit but always showed up.
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So to you all, find your tribe.
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Find people who cheer for your small wins Sit with you.
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through your meltdowns And of course, challenge your ego and show up even when the lights are off and more importantly,
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be that person for someone else And I'm sure there will be people for you guys when you're at your low.
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and who will always support you and more importantly, Of course, even love if you're lucky enough to find it because sorry,
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becomes part of your team.
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My husband who is here today is not just my partner in life, he's my mirror.
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my late night soundboard, my unofficial coach, my emergency joke writer, the one person I can cry in front of when it really hurts.
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So of course, I would give a hats off to my husband here.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Dutta, for always being there for me.
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Because of course medals are nice and podiums are great.
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But knowing there's someone in the stands who would clap for you, even if you lost every match, I think that's the win.
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that matters the most.
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Because if there's one thing I've learnt, it's this.
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You might win alone once in a while, but no one becomes great alone.
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No one.
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So I am sure there is someone who is there for you always no matter what.
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Lesson number four.
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Protect your joy.
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Well, let's be honest.
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In this hyper connected, always on world, it's so easy to lose yourself.
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We are all out here chasing things.
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Well the next job, the next promotion, the next like, Even I fall into it sometimes.
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worrying about ranking sponsorships who said what what headlines will come tomorrow But here's what I've learnt.
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You can climb every mountain and still feel empty at the top.
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unless you learn to protect your joy.
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For me, it's still the little things.
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like ice cream after a tough match, which thanks to our beloved Prime Minister Modi ji, is now apparently national policy.
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A guilt -free binge watch of some terrible reality TV Don't ask which one.
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Playing with my dog like we're both puppies
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or holding my husband's hand on a quiet walk without being stopped every two steps for a selfie.
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That's my recent button.
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That's the world reminding me.
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You're more than your results.
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In fact, there was a time I confused ambition with tension.
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I thought punishing harder meant caring more.
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But you know what?
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Peace is productive, laughter, is fuel.
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Joy It's discipline.
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So whatever your version of joy is, protect it fiercely.
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Make space for it.
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Fight for it the way you fight for success.
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Because ambition might get you there, but joy is what keeps you going.
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No matter what, Just be joyful and just keep going every single day.
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Thank you.
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Don't let medals, titles, or the grid.
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Steal the very thing that makes you human.
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because When the applause fades, and the spotlight moves on, It's quiet moments of joy you'll go back to.
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Thank you.
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They are not just the break from my journey from the journey.
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They are the journey.
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And if there is one thing I have truly learnt, It's this, protect your joy, Like your like.
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Protect your joy like your like depends on it.
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Because my dearest friends, it does.
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Closing from my heart to yours. So.
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Finally it's done, guys.
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I hope it was not too long.
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Uh -huh.
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I'm sorry.
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So to the class of 2025.
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Well, some of you will take off like rockets.
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Some of you will feel stuck before you even start.
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Most of you, you'll do both sometimes in the same week
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There will be days you feel invincible and nights when you feel invisible but through it all show up.
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Just show up.
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When it's easy, when it's exhausting, when you're winning, when you've lost everything, when you believe and especially when you don't.
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Because yes, winning is beautiful, winning is very beautiful, but becoming someone you respect That's the real gold medal for you.
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So chase your dreams that scare you.
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Walk till it hurts.
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laugh too loud fail with pride, Love too deep.
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Live like you've already made yourself proud.
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And if life ever looks you in the eye and asks, are you done?
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I hope you smile and say, Not yet, not even close.
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I've only just shown up.
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About This Lesson
Welcome to today’s English learning session inspired by the heartfelt graduation speech of Olympic medalist P.V. Sindhu. In this lesson, you will engage in english speaking practice through shadowing, where you will mimic Sindhu's speech style, rhythm, and emotional tones. By the end of this session, you will have enhanced your listening skills and gained confidence in your speaking abilities by practicing key phrases and vocabulary from the transcript.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Value of Effort - Understanding that hard work is essential for achieving dreams.
- Role of Failure - Acknowledging that setbacks are a natural part of the journey toward success.
- Strength of Community - Highlighting the importance of support systems and relationships.
- Importance of Joy - Recognizing that enjoyment should be part of the process of pursuing your goals.
- Graduating Class - Referring to the students who are completing their educational journey.
- Full Circle - Experiencing a significant moment that ties back to previous life events.
Practice Tips
To effectively improve your speaking skills using this shadow speech technique, here are some essential tips:
- Speed Adjustment: Start by watching the video at a slower speed to grasp the nuances of pronunciation and emotion. Once comfortable, gradually increase to normal speed.
- Focus on Emotion: Pay attention to P.V. Sindhu's tone and intonation. Attempt to convey the same feelings in your shadowing practice, especially during impactful moments of her speech.
- Voice Mimicking: Use a shadowing app to record your voice as you practice. Compare it with the original speech to identify areas of improvement.
- Repetition is Key: Don’t hesitate to repeat segments that challenge you. This will aid in muscle memory and improve fluency in your speech.
- Engagement with Content: Attempt to connect the lessons conveyed in the speech to your personal experiences. This will not only enhance retention but also make your practice more relevant and enjoyable.
Utilizing these strategies on this shadowing site will enhance your English language acquisition journey. Commit to regular practice, and remember, just like Sindhu emphasizes, the first step is to just show up!
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.