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You're being held up by a tree, so don't fall, alright?
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How you guys doing?
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This week I've been reading a book by Louis L 'Amour called Bendigo Shafter.
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And there was a passage I got to on Tuesday that just stopped me for the whole week.
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It stopped me from reading for the whole week.
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It is Sunday now, and I never got a few, any, you know, not more than a few pages past that.
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Because I just kept thinking about it, kept reflecting on it, kept going to my notebook and writing about it.
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And that's what I want to share about.
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In this story, in the passage, Bendigo Shafter was reading
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Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and he was reflecting about his own process of becoming a man.
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And he says in it, I needed what all men needed, a destination.
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He said in the final analysis, it's not what anybody else thinks of a man that matters, but what he thinks of himself.
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and this was him in kind of reflection or dialogue with the Thoreau quote
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public opinion is a weak tyrant compared to a man's own opinions of himself
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it is what a man thinks of himself that determines or rather indicates his fate
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oh baby oh baby I love these quotes I love these quotes
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and I think they matter so much they're so important because the stories we tell ourselves about who we are,
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what we believe about what we're good at, what we're bad at, what we're like, you know, all of that stuff matters so much.
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And whether you believe it or not or think it or not, what we think about ourselves, it gets reinforced in our behaviors.
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It gets played out in our behaviors and then it kind of becomes this self -fulfilling prophecy in a lot of ways.
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My own personal anecdote for
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that is from as long as I could remember
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I was very bad at school very bad the first test
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I ever remember taking I remember failing having to sit in the back of the class with a assistant teacher
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while everybody else moved on and I was getting retaught the the stuff
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and trying to get pushed into passing the test and then
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that was my whole school career was just d d c c f d c v
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you know not v what am I doing
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but I was failing every day I was always one step away from failing
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and of course school districts will do whatever they got to do to nudge you into not failing
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so I survived and I made it to college
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and immediately put on academic probation
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and I remember thinking like well what do you want
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you know with my dad like arguments like what do you want
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I'm an idiot I've always been stupid what do you expect like i i can't do this
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and uh i ran up against a teacher at this time
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that was not willing to help me nudge me along
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you know what i mean they weren't going to give me the excuses
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or the extra time or this or that they just said you know
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if you want to do well in this class you need to work a lot harder
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and they asked me what are you doing uh to do
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well in this class like what is your goal how many hours a week are you studying
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and I was I was kind of like you know I do my homework I I come
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and I listen I take notes in class they're like okay how often are you going through those notes
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and so they were kind of calling me out right
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and making me realize that I wasn't doing as much work
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because I've learned to not do though I learned that even
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if I do the work I'm not going to do well
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it doesn't matter I'm not going to waste my time I'm going to fail anyway.
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I'm not good at math.
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I'm not good at statistics.
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It was a statistics class.
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I was like, I'm not good at this.
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I can't do this.
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But I tried because there was a lot going on in my time, in my life at the time.
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My dad had been kind of taking it to me with the, do you ever even think about what the future looks like?
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I need you to get your eyes up, son, and look at where you're heading because your life is not on a good path.
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You need to think about what you're doing he was hitting me with those speeches
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and so I was willing to listen to this professor
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because I was like all right something's got to change I got to do something differently
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so I started to go to the library started to study started to put in hours reading the book
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which like I never opened the book I started to raise my hand in class
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and be like I don't know what you're talking about I'm completely lost
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and long story short is I got a 97 in
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that class long story short is by the end of my undergraduate career
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I was like obsessed with school I was going with the professors to present research
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I'd been doing in different states it was a complete 180
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and it's not like I got my brain changed
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and swapped out with somebody smart
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or somebody who likes school no the perception about who I was changed the belief about what I was
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and what I was capable of
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that changed those stories we tell ourselves about who we are those matter they do
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and now this is where the story gets complex right in our day and age is throw social media into the mix
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My fear for social media is that it affords us the opportunity to stop our self -work at the perceived.
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You know, I don't have to actually be a writer.
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I don't actually have to be this or that.
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I have the nominal data of likes, comments, reshares, all this stuff telling me I've made it.
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I've done it.
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But go back to that dangerous mindset video I did.
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That's a hollow, counterfeit, empty calorie version of it.
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that Louis L 'Amour quote of we need every man needs a destination I think that's
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so important right we need purpose we need personal purpose
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that we're fighting towards not for this person or what
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that person thinks or this accolade
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or this award for ourselves I think
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it matters for us for those who want
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it some people have just chosen pessimism some people are like no life sucks not worth it
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but for you if it is worth it I think it's important to be in
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that struggle and battle for more because we all have
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that yearning like this empty hunger feeling of this unnamed want for more
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and i think that's something that's worth exploring
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and fighting for in a real fashion in a real manner um
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and making sure you don't just stop at the perceived that you go and truly find what success is to you.
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Because remember these quotes that we started with, it's what a man thinks of himself.
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That's what matters, right?
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Our opinions are the things that determine and indicate our fate.
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Any success, any failure, any this or that, it means nothing until you assign it meaning, right?
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We get to decide what everything means for us.
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So if you want more, hey story's not over you're still here you still have an opportunity
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so go out and make it happen and fight for whatever it is
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that you're fighting for and know
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that the story you're believing right now the story you've always been told the story that's always been reinforced
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it could be wrong it could be wrong give yourself an opportunity to see
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that you might be uh you might be wrong i think
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that's it i don't know i know i didn't say everything
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i wanted to say on it like i said i've been writing about this stuff all week
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so i'll probably do another video about uh bandico shaft here soon
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but in the meantime guys take care hope you're doing well hope you're staying warm and uh see you next time
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “A Man’s Fate Is What He Thinks of Himself”. Questo video contiene 108 frasi e 1408 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 7:35. Chi parla va veloce, circa 186 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| reflect verbo | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | riflettere |
| fate sostantivo | /feɪt/ | fato, sorte |
| indicate verbo | /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/ | indicare |
| passage sostantivo | /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ | passo |
| destination sostantivo | /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ | destinazione, meta |
| perceive verbo | /pɚˈsiv/ | percepire |
| reinforce verbo | /ˌɹiː.ɪnˈfɔːs/ | rinforzare |
| belief sostantivo | /bɪˈliːf/ | credito, credenza |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| suck verbo | /sʌk/ | succhiare, suggere |
| explore verbo | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | esplorare, investigare |
| dialogue sostantivo | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | dialogo, conversazione |
| differently avverbio | /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/ | differentemente, diversamente |
| perception sostantivo | /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ | percezione |
| reflection sostantivo | /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/ | riflessione |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| go through verbo | attraversare |
| hold up verbo | ritardare, rallentare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You're being held up by a tree, so don't fall, alright?
- How you guys doing?
- I'm not good at math.
- I'm not good at statistics.
- I was like, I'm not good at this.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | I've been reading · i've been writing |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've always been · I've learned · I've made |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being held · was changed · been told |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | somebody who likes · those who want |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 44 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, shaft /ˈʃɑːft/, probation /ˌpɹoʊˈbeɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, pessimism /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/, hunger /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/, hollow /ˈhɑloʊ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, fate /feɪt/, indicate /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/, passage /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: passage /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, calorie /ˈkæləɹi/, accolade /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/, anecdote /ˈæn.ɪkˌdəʊt/
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 reflect, fate, indicate.
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.