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There are some books that stick out in my mind that have had a very, very big impact on me.
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And so I like to answer that question by not the three greatest books ever,
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but the three books that have had the most impact on my life.
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I read like thousands over the years, thousands of books for research.
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And so it's kind of like people will all of it ask you, who's your favorite child if you have a lot of children
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and you'll inevitably say it's like the last one etc
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so it'll be like the last books i read are my favorites
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but there are some that stick out in my mind
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that have had a very very big impact on me so i can remember when i was very young
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i must have been 15 or
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so i got a copy of machiavelli's the prince now i can assure you
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that i hardly understood a word of it i had never worked anywhere
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i had no knowledge of power I had never been in like a court -like environment.
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I'd never been around anybody like a prince or anything.
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But I loved that book.
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I thought it was fantastic.
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It had no relevance to my life in high school, obviously.
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But what did I love about it?
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I loved the brutal realism of it.
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I loved the fact that he was looking at human beings as if we are these animals that we are.
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And he was analyzing it without all the usual guilt, all the usual moralism what's going on in the world.
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He was just presenting us as we are.
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I didn't really understand experientially what he was talking about, but the style of it,
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the clarity, the pragmatism, the beautiful language entranced me.
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And so I've probably read that book six or seven times over the years, different formats.
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But that paperback, that really strange little spindly little, tiny little paperback that I had when I was 15.
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Boy, that had a huge impact on me.
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And you can see, obviously, the influence on my books.
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The second book, I studied ancient
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Greek in college.
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And you'll think, God, that has to be the most irrelevant subject anyone could ever study in university.
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And you're probably right.
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But it taught me some great things.
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It's the ultimate mental discipline.
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And I remember when I was in my second year, I believe, we were given Thucydides,
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we call it Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.
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It took me three days to read one paragraph in ancient Greek.
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The language was so difficult, so weird.
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I had to think about each word and sentence, etc. And I thought, I came out of that and I go,
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the style of this is so insane, it's so intricate, it's so brilliant, it's so convoluted yet logical in its own way.
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And I became an incredible fan of Thucydides.
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And obviously I read it later on in English, the whole book, and it's the most beautiful thing you can ever read
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because here you're reading about our history as humans some 2500 years ago in ancient greece
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and you've got this narrator who's
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so modern who someone could be somebody who's not sitting right next to you who has this very clear perspective
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and he's describing these events so far in the past they're so dramatic and they're so exciting and he's analyzing it brilliantly.
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I wish we had a handful of writers to this day who could be like that, who could have that clarity,
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who could have that kind of logic, who could have that kind of analytical ability.
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But it existed 2 ,500 years ago in this great historian Thucydides.
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He wrote one book that I know of, the history of the Peloponnesian War, but it's the most marvelous adventure you could ever go on.
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It's a fantastic book.
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It had a huge influence on me, almost as powerful as the Machiavelli.
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The third book is a very weird one.
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It's not something that most people know about or that I've ever really discussed, but it had a very large impact on me.
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And it's, there's a series of books written in the 60s by a writer named Carlos Castaneda.
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He was talking about the teachings of Don Juan, which is the title of one of his book.
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And he had a book called The Journey to Ixitlan.
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And if you ever pick up a copy of The Jury to Ixitlan, I think it's in the early 70s that it came out,
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1970, 71, you will understand where Robert Greene got a lot of the 48
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Laws of Power and the 33
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Strategies of War.
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These are amazing books.
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You know, sometimes I wonder if they date so well because they come from the drug period.
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And basically what it's about is the author is an anthropology student at UCLA named Carlos Castaneda
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and he goes to study indigenous Indian practices and he comes upon this Yaqui Indian.
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named Don Juan, who kind of initiates him in all of the ways of his indigenous culture.
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And it includes eventually ingesting peyote and learning to become a crow and all of these weird things that you think, wow, that's too weird.
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But a lot of it is this stuff that's all about power.
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It's all about controlling yourself.
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It's all about confronting your mortality.
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It's all about becoming this great warrior in life.
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and you know if I read it now I still love it it's not the same as
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when I read it when I was 16
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and I was getting excited about that stuff
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but it's still very impactful it's still a wonderful book
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and I'm actually using a little bit in the law of sublime
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so those are the three books
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that I think have had the largest impact on me of course
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I'm leaving out Friedrich Nietzsche who had probably the greatest impact on me of all
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but there's not one book I can single out there's like eight books
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and then of course there's my favorite novelist Dostoevsky who had a huge impact on me.
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I can't pick out one novel I have two three
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or four so that's my convoluted long -winded way of answering that question.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “3 Books That Will Change Your Life”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: impact, Thucydides, weird. Questo video contiene 83 frasi e 1048 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:14. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 168 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| indigenous aggettivo | /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/ | innato, congenito |
| clarity sostantivo | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | chiarezza |
| analyze verbo | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analizzare |
| format sostantivo | /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/ | formato |
| adventure sostantivo | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | avventura |
| dramatic aggettivo | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | drammatico |
| insane aggettivo | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | insano, pazzo |
| entrance sostantivo | /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ | entrata |
| discipline sostantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| warrior sostantivo | /ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/ | guerriero, guerriera |
| logical aggettivo | /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | logico |
| guilt sostantivo | /ɡɪlt/ | colpa |
| handful sostantivo | /ˈhæn(d)fʊl/ | manipolo, gruppetto |
| brutal aggettivo | /ˈbɹuːtəl/ | brutale |
| assure verbo | /əˈʃʊɹ/ | assicurare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 15 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, I've, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, irrelevant /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/, historian /hɪˈstɔɹi.ən/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, mortality /mɔɹˈtælɪti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: handful /ˈhæn(d)fʊl/, historian /hɪˈstɔɹi.ən/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: indigenous /ɪnˈdɪd͡ʒənəs/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, paperback /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/, format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: clarity /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, paperback /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌbæk/, format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come indigenous, clarity, analyze.
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.