Shadowing Practice: Leading with Courage in an Age of Uncertainty - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Why did you think that now was a good time to write about this topic?
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Is it a difficult time for business leaders and organizations collectively to be courageous?
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So to understand that question, you have to first ask the question, what triggers fear?
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So what triggers fear is uncertainty.
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Now, let me back up on that.
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What is uncertainty?
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Uncertainty is different from risk.
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There was a very famous essay written by an economist, Frank Knight.
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Risk is where you know the distribution of outcomes and you can put a probability on them.
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Uncertainty is where you don't know.
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If you look at what's happening around us today, what do we have?
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We have geopolitical uncertainty.
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We have political uncertainty.
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We have technological uncertainty.
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We have economic uncertainty.
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We have health uncertainty.
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We have environmental uncertainty.
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And I can go on and on.
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And I'm not the only one feeling it.
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In a recent essay, an author talked about how in earnings calls,
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CEOs mention the word uncertainty three times as often in this last quarter than they did the previous quarter.
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If you look at the VIX index, which people in the stock market loosely call the fear index, you know, it has spiked.
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So we have manifest uncertainty around us, which naturally normally will trigger fear,
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which naturally and normally leads to the classic freeze response.
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Let's wait.
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We don't know what to do.
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Let's not invest right now.
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We need to just see how this tariffs and whatever else is going to play out.
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And sometimes that may be the prudent response, but sometimes you need to be willing to lean into that fear.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Leading with Courage in an Age of Uncertainty”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: uncertainty, fear, trigger. This video has 29 sentences and 278 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:51. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 5 of its 29 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 |
|---|---|---|
| uncertainty noun | /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/ | Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction. |
| trigger noun | /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/ | A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| essay noun | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| outcome noun | /ˈaʊtkʌm/ | That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. |
| invest verb | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| earnings noun | Wages, money earned, income. | |
| lean verb | /ˈliːn/ | To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. |
| freeze verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. |
| technological adjective | /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/ | Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology. |
| probability noun | /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ | The state of being probable. |
| spike noun | /spaɪk/ | A sort of very large nail. |
| economist noun | /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ | An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories. |
| collectively adverb | In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| play out verb | To play (a game etc.) to its conclusion. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Uncertainty is where you don't know.
- We don't know what to do.
- Let's not invest right now.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/, probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, economist /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like uncertainty, trigger, naturally.
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