Pratica di Shadowing: BILLIONAIRE Sara Blakely on using THE LAW OF ATTRACTION & MANIFESTING WEALTH - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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I ended up writing in my journal, I'm going to invent a product and sell it to millions of people that will make them feel good.
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I ended up writing in my journal, I'm going to invent a product and sell it to millions of people that will make them feel good.
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And then I asked the universe for an idea and I was very specific.
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You have to embrace not knowing.
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A lot of times when we don't know something, especially, you know, most people in society,
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we end up being afraid of what we don't know or we take that as a negative.
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it can hold us back.
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Whereas if you let what you don't know become your greatest asset, you are bound to do things very differently.
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There was a moment when I was selling fax machines door to door
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and I was constantly being escorted out of buildings or sometimes people would rip up my business card in my face, which was a typical occurrence.
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And one day I pulled off the side of the road and I literally thought I'm in the wrong movie.
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Like, this is not my life.
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Cut, called the director, called the producer.
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How did this happen?
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This is not supposed to be my life.
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I went home that day and wrote in my apartment, in my notebook, what my strengths were.
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And the only thing basically in the strength column
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that I was sure about was sales and I said okay
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and what can I do with that
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and I ended up writing I want to invent a product
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that I can sell to millions of people
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that will make them feel better and it was two years later
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that I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose to wear white pants to a party.
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Banks started way before I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that's the sound bite in the press
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that everybody's talked about for almost 20 years, but it actually started fundamentally on when I was 16.
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I worked on mindset for myself, and I'm such a believer in mindset is almost everything, and it just happened to be a set of circumstances.
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I was riding my bike with one of my best friends at 16, and she was run over by a car and killed in front of me, and then a few months later,
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my dad left home, and my parents separated and ultimately got divorced.
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And when my dad moved out, he came into my bedroom
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and he handed me a cassette tape series called How to Be a No Limit Person by Wayne Dyer.
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And he said, sweetie, I wish I discovered this when I was your age instead of the age of 40.
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And then he moved out.
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And so I started listening to this How to Be a No limit person, which was talking about visualization, law of attraction, not caring about what other people think about you,
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the fear, you know, not being consumed by the fear of failure.
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And it just, the clouds parted for me, and I thought, you know, I've spent a lot of time being taught what to think, but no one's really teaching me how to think.
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And at 16, that was so incredibly important.
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So in this digital platform, It's kind of passing on a lot of these insights
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that deal with mindset that I think is the real reason that Spanx exists.
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It's that failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you
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and letting you know that you're not on the right path.
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So here I am because of that.
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And the second thing is visualization.
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I visualized this for myself.
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When I was selling copiers door to door, I had a very clear vision of what my life was going to be like.
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And I encourage everyone to do it.
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Take a snap photo of what success looks like for you.
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How many employees do you have?
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How much are you making?
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Where do you live?
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Are you sitting at a table with world leaders?
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Are you standing on a stage in New York City giving a speech?
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And hold on to that snapshot and you will subconsciously start to make decisions
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that get you there and so my snap photo for myself
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when I was going door-to-door to sell copiers was to be self-employed invent a product
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that I could sell to lots of people
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and not just one copier to each person
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and create a business for myself that would continue to fund itself
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if I wasn't present I wanted money to be generated without me having to be there I was
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that specific in my vision the third thing is goal setting it It sounds so cliche, but it is so true.
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The two things I want to say about that is if you write your goals down, it makes all the difference.
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Harvard did a study in 1973.
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They took the graduating class and asked how many of them had goals.
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100% of them had goals.
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Well, they asked how many had written down their goals upon graduation.
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Only 5% of the class had.
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In 1993, 20 years later, they followed up with the class.
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found that the 5%
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that had written down their goals 20 years prior upon graduating
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were worth more financially than the other 95% of the class put together.
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So I have always written my goals down about what I wanted to achieve and I really attribute a lot to that.
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And then aim high!

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Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, esploreremo il potere della mentalità e della visualizzazione, come esemplificato dalle esperienze di Sara Blakely. Praticherai l'ascolto attivo e la ripetizione attraverso la tecnica del shadow speech, che è particolarmente utile per migliorare la pronuncia inglese. Analizzeremo come le parole possono influenzare il nostro modo di pensare e di agire, permettendo così di manifestare successo e benessere. Inoltre, sarai incoraggiato a visualizzare i tuoi obiettivi e a formare una chiara immagine di ciò che il successo significa per te.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Mindset - La mentalità con cui affrontiamo le sfide.
  • Visualizzazione - Tecnica per immaginare i propri obiettivi come se fossero già realizzati.
  • Legge di attrazione - La teoria secondo cui i pensieri positivi attirano eventi positivi nella vita.
  • Fattore di paura - La paura del fallimento, che può ostacolare il progresso.
  • Forza personale - Riconoscere le proprie capacità e punti di forza.
  • Evidente - Essere chiari e specifici, soprattutto nel fissare obiettivi.

Consigli per la pratica

Durante l'ascolto del video, prova a seguire il ritmo di Sara Blakely attraverso la tecnica del shadowing. Inizialmente, potresti trovare utile ascoltare attentamente una frase, quindi ripeterla immediatamente dopo. Questo processo ti permetterà di migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese e la fluidità. Non preoccuparti se non riesci a ripetere perfettamente; l'obiettivo è abituare la tua bocca e la tua mente a suoni e intonazioni inglesi. Utilizza un shadowing site o una registrazione audio per esercitarti in modo da poter tornare indietro e ripetere le frasi più volte. Inoltre, cerca di mantenere un tono di voce che rispecchi quello di Sara, cercando di catturare non solo le parole, ma anche le emozioni e l'energia che comunica. Infine, fai una pausa dopo ogni segnale di forza o determinazione nel video, per riflettere su come queste emozioni possono influenzare il tuo modo di vedere il successo e il tuo percorso personale.

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.

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