Pratique du Shadowing: How Does Money Factor into Your Life's Purpose - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Did the color of your fire change?
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Oh, absolutely.
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I'm just, you know, During the-- first of all, nothing was better.
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Nothing was better, nor will ever replace or should the years of the Oprah show.
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There will never be a time like that again.
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for me and I think for all the team members.
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I mean, the...
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And that's what I mean by the velocity and the intensity.
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And I can speak to that because I know
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that So many things happened at such an intense rate that I don't remember half of it.
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I don't remember.
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Because we were just sitting around the table the other night talking with the crew, and they were saying, "This story and this story." I go, "I don't remember that.
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I don't remember that." Because I was just going at such full speed.
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Yeah.
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And so now, what I have is great, pure satisfaction from every conversation.
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So I'm not going from this conversation to the next conversation, the next conversation.
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I'm not trying to fill, you know, 200 shows a year.
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I'm not trying to.
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you know, prove anything.
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First of all, neither you nor I have anything left to prove.
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Right.
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We've done it.
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We've reached the pinnacle of success and achieved and all of that. So everything
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that I do now is basically an offering to help other people see their lives in a more meaningful way
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and what to make of their lives.
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That's what it's all for for me.
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Yeah.
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And I think that's because when the fire changes color, and you are at this different phase, then these amazing things happen late.
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And this notion that somehow we have this peak when we're young, And then it goes like this.
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Well, that's the thing I was saying.
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No matter where you all are in your life, this book is going to be so valuable to you because I'm so shocked at the number of people
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who've done extraordinary things.
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To read that Meryl Streep, most of her Academy Award nominations came after age 60.
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Yeah, she did so many of them.
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She was...
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I mean, talk about somebody who's encoded.
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Yes.
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And has been...
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in frame doing this for so many years.
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And that was a place with her story.
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I watched every one of her films in sequence, which was very interesting.
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Well, as I was reading about her films, I was thinking, gosh, you know what?
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I'm going to have myself a Meryl Streep Festival.
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You should.
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Absolutely.
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I'm going to have myself a Meryl Streep Festival and watch all of those movies.
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That's right.
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And you see the evolution.
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You can see different phases of life.
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playing different roles.
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But what's so interesting is, I mean, she has more Oscar nominations than anybody.
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Anybody.
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I like a factor of two.
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Yes.
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And they don't stack early.
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They're spread throughout, and she has about half of them.
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Her first one was age 29.
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That's right.
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And then she gets all the way out into her 60s, and she has as many nominations in her 60s as when she was in her...
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in her younger years per decade, is amazing.
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And the fire hasn't gone out.
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You can just see that it just gets out.
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Yeah, we're just waiting for Devil Wears product.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so I found this to be a seminal question that you posed on page 99.
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Stop and think for a moment.
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You say, "What is the relationship between work and money?" I love this.
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Y 'all are going to love this.
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Is the purpose of work to make money or is the purpose of money to be able to do one's work?
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That's right.
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Well, that depends on how we define and think about work.
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I think people get really caught up in the money thing.
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How do you flip the arrow of money, as you say?
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Yeah.
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So that was a...
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Like a really critical thing for me to see was that it wasn't about just the economics.
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It was about What direction the arrow goes?
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And there's so many different people that illustrate this in the study.
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But, you know, I think about Maurice White, the founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, you know, and he's doing One meal a day They cost a dollar.
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So a dollar a day, a meal a day, while he's getting his music going to eventually get to do Earth, Wind & Fire.
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And he didn't do music to make money, but he needed money to do music.
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Right.
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- Right.
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- And so he had to do the gigs, and he had to put things in place.
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But then later, when "Earth, Wind & Fire" was really going, it was really interesting.
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He would do these albums with the band, But then he always took the money from that and put it back into doing more music and more spectacular performances.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Some of those performances.
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Do you remember?
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I do.
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And then putting it right back in and then those would generate economics to do more. And so,
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It's like if you understand that Money is fuel to do what you're encoded for
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that feeds the fire rather than the point is to make money.
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The problem is if the point is to make money, and then you make money, what do you do next?
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If the point is, as we were talking earlier, we don't need to do any of this for money.
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But if that's not the point anyways, you never want to stop.
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Yeah. Because...
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But I will have to say, even in the years of The Oprah Show, when I first started doing that show, if they had told me, "You were not gonna make any money doing this show," I would have done it.
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That's right.
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one of the most important moments in my life was doing "The Color Purple." I did that for $35 ,000.
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And I remember when my lawyer was saying, "I'm going to ask them for 50," and I go, "No, don't ask them for 50.
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I'll do it for 35." I've never actually made.. any decision based on money.
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I've never done anything for the purpose of making money.
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And actually, can I spend just a moment on this?
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Because we have some people in our study like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, who just went on with his singing, doing amazing things late in life.
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And he turned down the opportunity to do probably the first billion -dollar reunion tour with Zeppelin.
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And he decided not to do it.
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And people say, yeah, but that's easy because he's already wealthy.
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And what I want people to understand is that Robert Plant's circumstances changed.
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But the reason he did what he did was always the same.
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So he started out without money.
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then ended up with a lot of money, but his motivation was always the same, which was to sing.
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And so I'm curious if that's true for you, that the motivation has always been the same.
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It's just the circumstances are different.
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Exactly.
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And the fact that I was encoded to do that talk show, I was encoded to do that,
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is what allowed me to be so successful at it.
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It was as natural as breathing to me.
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I was the most comfortable in the most in front of an audience.
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Okay.
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I want to talk about this because so many of you are going to be able to relate to this.
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And Jim talks about in What to Make of a Life the competence doom loop i've seen this
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so many times during my working career
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and you write on page 111 one of the great traps of life and see
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if this is you one of the great traps of life
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is the curse of the competence doom loop it goes like this you become reasonably competent at something
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that doesn't capture your encodings or ignite the inner fire but it pays you well work hard
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leads to increased opportunities to do even more of what does not fit your encodings or ignite the inner fire, and you're getting paid even more to do it.
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That's the loop that so many people are in that can't get themselves out.
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I actually have a lot of compassion for how that happens because They may have family responsibilities.
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That's right.
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They may have a need to provide for others.
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There may be reasons for that.
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And so it's not like it's a defect, but once you get trapped in it, it's really hard to get out of it because you just get better and better paid at doing something you're not encoded.
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That you don't even like.
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Yeah.
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And one day you wake up to discover that years or decades have passed.
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You're well paid.
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and out of frame.
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The inner fire is still there, but gradually going dormant.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 140 phrases et 1489 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 7:55. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 188 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 vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
trap nom/tɹæp/piège, collet
loop nom/luːp/boucle
nomination nom/ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/nomination
meal nom/ˈmiːl/repas
economics nom/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/économie
motivation nom/ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/motivation
arrow nom/ˈæɹəʊ/flèche
doom nom/duːm/destin tragique, destinée
circumstance nom/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/circonstance
competence nom/ˈkɑm.pə.təns/compétence
founder nom/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/fondateur, fondatrice
shock nom/ʃɔk/choc
curious adjectif/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/curieux
capture verbe/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/saisir, capturer
evolution nom/ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/évolution

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
get out verbesortir
go out verbesortir
turn down verberefuser, décliner

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 37 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, don't, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « th »: breathe /bɹiːð/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/
  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, shock /ʃɔk/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, economics /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/

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  2. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
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La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantWe've done · We've reached · who've done
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chosesequence, which was · same, which was

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