Shadowing Practice: Work-life balance — Jeff Bezos - Learn English Speaking with Video

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how do you go about establishing that work -life balance

that everybody you know talks about

and thinks about you've got yeah I mean you live a big life right

and how do you how do you I get this question

a lot I get it I teach senior executive kind of leadership classes at Amazon for our most senior execs

and I also teach or not teach but I also speak to interns

so kind of all across the spectrum

and I get this question about work -life balance all the time from from both ends of the spectrum

and the my view is I don't even like the phrase is work -life balance.

I think it's misleading.

I like the phrase work -life harmony because I know that if I am energized at work,

happy at work, feeling like I'm adding value, part of a team, whatever energizes you, that makes me better at home.

It makes me a better husband, a better father, and likewise, if I'm happy at home,

it makes me a better employee, a better boss, all the things.

It's not about, it's not primarily about, there may be crunch periods where it's about the number of hours in the week, but that's not the real thing.

Usually, it's about, do you have energy?

And is your work depriving you of energy, or is your work generating energy for you.

And you know, there are people, everybody in this room knows people who fall into these two camps.

You're in a meeting and the person comes in the room.

Some people come into the meeting and they add energy to the meeting.

Other people come into the meeting and the whole meeting just deflates.

And those people just, they drain energy from the meeting.

And you have to decide which of those kinds of people you're going to be.

Are you going to add energy?

And the same thing at home and the same thing at home

and it's so it's a wheel it's a cycle it's a flywheel it's a circle it's not a balance

because a balance that's why that metaphor is so dangerous

because it implies there's a strict trade -off

and you could be out of work have all the time for your family in the world

but really depressed and demoralized about your work situation

and your family wouldn't want to be anywhere near you they would wish you would take a vacation from them

and so it's not about the number of hours not primarily I suppose

if you went crazy with you know a hundred hours a week

or something yeah that maybe maybe there are limits

and they probably I've never had a problem and I think it's

because both sides of my life give me energy

and that's what I would recommend that's what I do recommend to interns and execs

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 37 sentences and 486 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:47. The speaker talks at a natural 174 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
primarily adverb	/ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/	Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
phrase noun	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	A short written or spoken expression.
spectrum noun	/ˈspɛktɹəm/	A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
intern noun	/ˈɪntɝn/	A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
establish verb	/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/	To make stable or firm; to confirm.
vacation noun	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
strict adjective	/stɹɪkt/	Strained; drawn close; tight.
generate verb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/	To bring into being; give rise to.
depressed adjective	/dɪˈpɹɛst/	Unhappy; despondent.
harmony noun	/ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/	Agreement or accord.
drain noun	/dɹiːn/	A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
likewise adverb	/ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/	In a similar manner.
imply verb	/ɪmˈplaɪ/	To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
metaphor noun	/ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/	The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing…
crunch verb	/kɹʌnt͡ʃ/	To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 8 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, demoralize /dɪˈmɒɹəlaɪz/

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 primarily, phrase, spectrum.

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