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Good morning Dartmouth!
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Oh, it's such an honor to be here with you today on this momentous occasion.
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Congratulations, you did it!
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Welcome to fellow students, to past graduates, to faculty, to friends and families,
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and happy Father's Day to all those proud fathers out there.
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Thank you, President Bylock, the Board of Trustees, to all the staff who made this day possible,
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and to you all for this invitation.
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I never attended university myself, only played characters who have.
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So thank you for helping fulfill my parents' dream of me actually getting a degree.
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And a doctorate at that.
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I know, it's honorary.
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Actually, it was Shonda Rhimes, one of your alums, and my former boss, who called me.
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And when she presented the offer to come and speak to you all today, I thought, well, that's nice to be asked.
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What a privilege.
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What a great opportunity to come meet you all.
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And then I thought, absolutely not.
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Oh, my God, what do I have to say?
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Okay, this was me thinking.
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What could I possibly say to you young graduates that could meet this moment we find ourselves in?
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I like Federer's speech last year.
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Oh, my God, so good.
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I can't be as funny as Conan O 'Brien and Mindy Kaling.
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I look at everything she's accomplished, and I just want to go to bed.
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And they all spoke in the before times.
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You know what I mean.
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Like, forget about being roasted on the internet, although I am terrified of that.
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What if I say the wrong thing?
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What if I were to talk about diversity, equity?
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Okay, okay.
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What if I change the words? like including diverse equalness or diverting equitable inclusivity.
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Would that still be bad? Could I get deported?
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See, that should be a bad joke, and it is, but it's not.
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These are bewildering and destabilizing times,
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and every night since Shonda asked me I have been thinking of you all
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and I knew no matter what I was going to say today I needed to be honest.
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I realized that underneath this discomfort I was feeling,
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the fear, the comparison, the self -judgment was was really a call to come and share myself with you despite these doubts.
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So if there's anything I can offer to you today for my own life,
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it's this, nothing has taught me more than being with discomfort.
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It can be our greatest learning opportunity, and it is also inevitable.
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So if you can train yourself not to turn away,
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but to learn how to be with your discomfort and trust that it might be telling you something you don't yet know,
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it can help you develop an inner strength
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that will enable you to face the challenges life presents you with without losing your values
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or your sense of self along the way.
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As some of you know, I had the great privilege of playing Dr. Christina Yang on Grey's Anatomy for 10 seasons.
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So, this opportunity brought me financial stability, fame, and privilege.
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It was also one of the most challenging decades of my life.
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I learned profound lessons during this time because so much of it was so uncomfortable.
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Now, when I started Graze, I was in my early 30s, so I had an idea of who I was and what the work entailed,
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but I had no idea what was coming.
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I demanded a lot from myself and from the writers.
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If something bothered me in a script,
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I would fight for what I believed what was right for the character of Christina because I felt responsible for her.
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And while this contributed to the creation of a memorable character, my desire to make the dialogue fit
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and my belief that I knew what was best for the character also caused grief for the writers and for me.
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Let me tell you, okay.
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There was a dedicated Sandra Whisperer on staff.
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Oh yes, oh yes, a writer who was tasked to come to set to deal with me. That doesn't happen anymore.
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I am my own whisperer.
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One time, I think it was season six, the writers and I were at an impasse about something in this script
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and I had to have a call with the big boss and Shonda, I'll never forget, she said to me, Sandra, we have been here before.
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You've got to trust me.
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Something will come through if you just say the damn words.
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Okay, I know she didn't say that exactly because Shonda is a very classy lady, but it has stayed with me.
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I heard her.
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I thought about everything the writers and I had created together
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and I trusted Shonda because deep down we both wanted the same thing, a great show.
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The discomfort didn't go away but my relationship to it began to change.
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I started to understand that it was part of the process of making a great show or a great anything.
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So, I said the damn words.
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And when I stopped trying to bend things to my will and stayed open to my discomfort, a new thing came through.
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Something that wasn't just mine or just the writers,
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but something richer that gave me a deeper understanding of myself as the character, as an actor, and as a collaborator.
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Oh, and it's not like I've stopped pushing or fighting,
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I'm not suggesting that, but I no longer see these uncomfortable impasses as battles to be won or lost.
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They are opportunities to practice how you want to show up, how you want to lead, who you want to be,
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clues to where the gold is buried.
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And by gold, I mean like the really deep work in life that will help you become a more grounded, more resilient version of yourself,
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which you are going to need going forward.
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Because life is going to challenge you in ways you cannot anticipate.
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Things will happen that are completely out of your control.
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This was true for me on Grace.
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You know, beyond the creative process, which I did have some say in, there were other things happening that were completely out of my control.
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My skin was falling off.
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I was afraid to leave my house.
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The relentless schedule was completely overwhelming, and I got sick.
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Physically and mentally, it was past my limit.
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And all the ways I had previously managed to muscle through mental and physical discomfort simply weren't working,
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because it turns out you can't ghost depression.
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or outsource a panic attack.
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The show must go on.
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Life is simply not going to stop for you.
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The more I wanted my external circumstances to change, the worse I felt.
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And things only started to stabilize when I looked inside.
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Now, even if you're in perfect health right now, which I hope you are, I bet you feel discomfort about things you can't control.
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Maybe you're worried about finding a job, or moving away from friends.
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Maybe you're worried about the dismantling of civil rights and liberties, or the planet burning, or the robots taking over.
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Maybe you desperately want to make a difference, and you have no idea how to start.
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whatever reason.
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One way to start building some muscle around this discomfort is to actually be in it by choice.
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Tiny, bite -sized moments where you can practice being with it safely.
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And one way I've practiced doing this is to be in silence.
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Stay with me.
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being in silence has helped me develop an inner life
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and what I mean by that is having a relationship with yourself that is beyond your immediate thoughts beyond your immediate feelings
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Beyond just reacting, because if we're always reacting,
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if we're always distracted, we can't fight for the things we want because we won't even know what they are.
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So what if we just try bite -sized discomfort?
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How was that?
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Anxiety -provoking?
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Confusing?
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Did you want to reach for your phone?
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It's interesting, isn't it?
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How much is going on up here and in here when we try to be quiet?
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And how often what we find is neurotic or judgmental or scared?
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So how do you find ease within discomfort without turning away or being thrown off balance?
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The way I have tried to be with this is to be kind.
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Kindness can be hard to find these days.
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It is certainly not reflected in many of our world leaders who claim power through fear and oppression and cruelty.
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A lot of us are scared and angry about what's going on in the world
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And in times like this, kindness might seem naive or pointless.
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But when I say kindness, I'm not talking about being nice.
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I am talking about being able to hold your own heartbreak.
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So we can go on living.
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Go on resisting.
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Go on building.
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Go on healing so we can meet cruelty again and again and not lose our humanity.
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The kindness I am talking about encompasses courage and respect and compassion.
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It helps us get out of bed in the morning.
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It helps us to lead.
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It is the opposite of weakness.
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It is the foundation for a lasting strength.
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And it is really hard to be truly kind, to have kind thoughts towards yourself or towards someone you don't agree with,
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but it is the seed that will grow into action if you nurture it.
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Now, if you're not sure about the feeling I'm talking about,
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or you find kindness kind of difficult to access because it's like an amorphous wash,
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then what about heartbreak? Can you feel heartbreak?
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I bet everyone here knows heartbreak.
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If you're living in this world, you know heartbreak.
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So now, imagine this heartbreak,
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whether it is as personal as a breakup or as big as a war thousands of miles away.
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Imagine you're holding it in your hands.
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What shape is it?
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Is it heavy?
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Does it have color?
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Maybe it's burning your palms or slipping through your fingers or maybe it is so large you can barely contain it.
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Can you hold it with care and keep it safe just for this moment?
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Can you hold your heartbreak with tenderness and give it your loving attention and keep it steady?
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This, this is kindness happiness.
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You all have been incredibly fortunate to spend these formative years here in a place
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that celebrates knowledge and has given you the opportunity to express yourselves.
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If you want to protect academic freedom, if you want to stop the brutality of oppression,
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If you want true democratic change, if you want to just lead a simple and good life,
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the strength you will need to do these things begins with knowing kindness.
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So as you venture off into the rest of your lives,
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I hope you can remember what we shared here today and fill up on it and then extend it outwards towards others,
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towards the planet, because we're all going to need a full arsenal of kindness to meet this world.
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And now more than ever, actually, you know what?
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I'm so sorry.
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There's one more thing.
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I'm so sorry.
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Do I have time for just one?
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Okay.
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I'm so sorry.
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Okay.
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You know what?
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Okay.
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There is this one thing I've done like my whole life that I would really love to share with you all.
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So, um, uh, okay.
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Uh, stand up.
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Everyone just stand up.
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Can everyone just stand up?
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Everyone stand up in the bleachers.
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I see you.
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Everyone stand up.
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This is for the graduates.
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If you can, and you're able, you know, we're practicing discomfort.
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Let's all just stand up.
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Okay.
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Uh, so when the world gets hard or when it's good,
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especially when it's good like today, okay.
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By yourself, with your friends, people you love, with strangers,
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always make the time to dance it out.
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We've got 15 seconds to move on, boys.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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Oh, no. Put away your phones.
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Let's move it, move it, move it.
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Woo.
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Come on, moms and dads.
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it is possible to move discomfort into joy remember this feeling carry it and
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care for it and then give it to others thank you who wants to dance with me
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I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose
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Fire away, fire away
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Break the shape, you take your aim
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Fire away, fire away
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Just shoot me down, but I won't fall I am fighting here
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You shoot me down
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But I'm a follower I am Titan I am Titan
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I am Titan Stonehold
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “2025 Commencement Address by Sandra Oh”. Questo video contiene 202 frasi e 2102 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 18:28. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 114 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| discomfort sostantivo | /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/ | malessere, turbamento |
| kindness sostantivo | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | bontà, gentilezza |
| privilege sostantivo | /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/ | privilegio, prerogativa |
| silence sostantivo | /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/ | silenzio |
| muscle sostantivo | /ˈmʌs.əl/ | muscolo |
| script sostantivo | /skɹɪpt/ | scritto |
| bite verbo | /baɪt/ | mordere |
| uncomfortable aggettivo | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | scomodo |
| react verbo | /ɹiːˈækt/ | reagire |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | spaventare, impaurire |
| oppression sostantivo | /əˈpɹɛʃən/ | oppressione |
| cruelty sostantivo | /ˈkɹu(.ə)lti/ | crudeltà |
| finger sostantivo | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | dito, dita |
| lesson sostantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lezione |
| belief sostantivo | /bɪˈliːf/ | credito, credenza |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| stand up verbo | alzarsi in piedi |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene |
| put away verbo | mettere via |
| take over verbo | usurpare |
| turn out verbo | risultare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- What if I say the wrong thing?
- What if I were to talk about diversity, equity?
- What if I change the words?
- Did you want to reach for your phone?
- Do I have time for just one?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has taught · have been · has stayed |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be asked · being roasted · was tasked |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 39 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you're, can't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, wash /wɑʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, heal /ˈhiːl/, heartbreak /ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: discomfort /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/, kindness /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/, privilege /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/, silence /ˈsaɪ̯ləns/, script /skɹɪpt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: react /ɹiːˈækt/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, faculty /ˈfæk.əl.ti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come discomfort, kindness, privilege.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.