Shadowing Practice: How to find purpose and meaning (when we get a little lost). - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are two types of people in the world.
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Those who wake up in the morning feeling like this, and those who wake up in the morning feeling like this.
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We know which one we are, but the question is, what's the difference?
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Carl Jung, a very famous psychiatrist,
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said at the end of his career that over one -third of the patients he's seen actually suffered from no clinical neurosis,
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but rather from a want of meaning or purpose in their lives.
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Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, said, as soon as one of his fellow inmates lost their purpose,
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they'd be dead within a day or two.
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purpose makes us whole purpose gives us life purpose is what gets us out of bed in the morning
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and without it we're drifters drifting through life with no direction no destination
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and no end in sight and life is dull mundane monotonous and meaningless Sheen called this the anxiety of life.
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Now some of us will say just get through school, get a good job, follow your dreams, get married, raise a family,
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and make a lot of money.
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That's your purpose.
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And these are all good things that are part of purpose but can't be purpose purpose because first of all,
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what if these things don't work out for me?
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Then what?
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And second, what if all these things work out for me?
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Then what?
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Others will just try to avoid the whole thing and convince ourselves that there's no such thing as purpose.
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And we'll try to replace the want of purpose with things like pleasures, experiences, and excessiveness.
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But you know as well as I do, this gets old real fast, and the older we get,
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the louder those questions become. So what is it?
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What's my purpose?
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And how do I break out of this anxiety of life?
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Well, Sheen offers two solutions.
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The first is this go out and help someone.
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Today, help my neighbor.
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Who's my neighbor?
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Anyone near me who's suffering.
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The poor, the lonely, the sick, the stressed out, the sad, the broken, the beaten down, the depressed, the tired, the hungry,
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the addicted, the lost, the hurting.
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Basically, we're all the neighbor.
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Because when we're living in this anxiety of life, we're living totally for ourselves, trapped in all the junk inside our own heads.
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and the quickest way out.
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And the second thing is this. Be open.
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Like our phones receive all kinds of signals from God knows where, we have built -in antennas able to receive infinite signals from outside.
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We call these.
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But they've long been disabled and atrophy, and we can't get a signal anyway because we're surrounded by so much.
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Enable it.
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And be open to receive some sort of encounter from God.
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And it doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, or how far away you think you may be.
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These signals are coming down on all of us, even as we speak, like rain.
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Just be open.
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Now some of us may be thinking, alright that first one makes sense, but why do I need that second one?
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The whole God thing makes me a little uncomfortable.
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Because if the first one is this, the second is this.
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If the first is this, the second is this.
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If the first one is this, the second is this.
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Because the first is, go out and love my neighbor.
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and the second is opening up a permanent connection with pure love itself
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that is purpose and this purpose is like the mother of all purposes
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and takes all those other purposes into her arms and lifts them all up
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purpose is not something we rationalize or intellectualize or figure out by just thinking about it really really hard
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It's something we do.
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And when we do, we don't find purpose.
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Purpose finds us.
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I'm going to go ahead and get it.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “How to find purpose and meaning (when we get a little lost)”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: purpose, neighbor, signal, anxiety, receive. This video has 58 sentences and 662 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:54. The speaker talks at a steady 112 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow. 10 of its 58 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| neighbour noun | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or… |
| anxiety noun | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| psychiatrist noun | /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/ | A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| trap noun | /tɹæp/ | A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. |
| enable verb | /ɪˈneɪ.bəl/ | To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. |
| convince verb | /kənˈvɪns/ | To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence. |
| encounter verb | /ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/ | To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly. |
| lonely adjective | /ˈloʊnli/ | Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people. |
| carl noun | /kɑɹl̩/ | A rude, rustic man; a churl. |
| destination noun | /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ | The place set for the end of a journey or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at. |
| uncomfortable adjective | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | Not comfortable; causing discomfort. |
| infinite adjective | /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/ | Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. |
| depressed adjective | /dɪˈpɹɛst/ | Unhappy; despondent. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| come down on verb | To punish or criticize (someone). | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| open up verb | To open. | |
| stress out verb | To become stressed. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Anyone near me who's suffering.
- Basically, we're all the neighbor.
- I'm going to go ahead and get it.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, can't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/
- Long words — get the stress right: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, intellectualize /ɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃuəlaɪz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like neighbour, anxiety, suffer.
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