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Thank you very much.
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Thank you, President Crow, for the kind,
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gracious introduction, and for the privilege to address all of you here today.
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You're here because you have accomplished something significant.
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You understood the opportunity before you.
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You took advantage of all this world-class university had to offer.
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You made wise choices, followed through with the work.
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I celebrate your commitment.
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The combined success of all of you, the potential of your entire generation,
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that is what gives me hope for the future.
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I didn't give much thought to the future, to my future, when I was in college.
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I did not make good choices.
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I didn't have the perspective, the maturity.
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I served only myself.
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I was squandering my life in riotous living.
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By my junior year, I was in real trouble, grade point wise, and looking for an easy A.
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I took a course the catalog called Drama, the Study of Plays.
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We'd be responsible for putting on plays for the college, but I didn't give that part much thought.
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I thought I'd work in the box office or build sets.
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My classmates were people I had previously discounted as geeks and misfits,
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but I soon realized I was a geek and a misfit.
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I had found my fit.
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These were my people.
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Turns out I didn't work in the box office.
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Instead I had major parts in five or six plays that we put on that year.
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I began to find myself on stage pretending to be someone else.
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I had always seen myself as shy, but hiding in character and costume and makeup,
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I had a freedom, a bravery I had never felt before.
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And I got an A.
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I was, I realized, present for possibly the very first time in my life.
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My passion had led me to community.
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The head of the theater department had become a mentor to me.
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invited me to do plays in a summer theater season he directed sure
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and then come to california to join him again at a more professional theater wow
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which led to an interview at columbia pictures which eventually would lead to my theatrical career.
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But acting was not yet paying the bills.
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I was supporting my growing family with carpentry jobs, another way to put food on the table.
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I loved making things.
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This went on for about, well, I just skipped a line.
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Back up for me, if you would, please.
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And I only took acting jobs when the parts challenged me.
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This went on for about 15 years,
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during which I did a lot of carpentry and only four or five acting jobs, but they were more ambitious, good projects.
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And then it all added up, and I got Star Wars.
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The load lightened.
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I had freedom, opportunity, but something was still missing.
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Passion and purpose are not the same thing.
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Passion brings you joy.
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Purpose brings you meaning.
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Passion gets you out of bed in the morning, but purpose allows you to sleep at night.
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And I hadn't found purpose higher than my job yet.
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That changed in the late 80s.
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I was living in Wyoming,
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and I was impressed by a group of people that I met there who had recently formed a nonprofit called Conservation International.
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They had inspired leadership in their founder, Peter Seligman, who became a trusted friend.
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Their message was simple.
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Nature doesn't need people.
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People need nature to survive.
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A healthy natural world provides free services,
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free services to mankind that we cannot provide for ourselves.
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Oxygen in the air we breathe.
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Pollinators for our crops.
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Fresh water and carbon capture from our forests, wetlands, and ocean.
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Medicines present and future from the rainforest.
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They had their heads in the sky and their feet in the mud.
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and they encouraged me to join them.
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There it was.
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Purpose.
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A place to put my passion for storytelling to work.
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I didn't want to be a poster boy for the cause.
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I wanted to be part of the work, so I was invited to join the board some 35 years ago.
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And that's why I stand here now before you to represent for nature, the source of life itself.
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Humanity is a part of nature, not above it.
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We have an essential mandate to protect 30% of the world's land and sea by 2030,
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to prevent the mass extinction, to slow the warming of our planet,
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still, despite new science, new policies,
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we are still losing nature to profiteering,
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corruption, conflict, including land that is already protected on paper.
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These efforts matter, but they're not enough.
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We need cultural change.
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We need to extend social justice.
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We need to respect and elevate the indigenous peoples that are being marginalized and in many cases killed in cold blood.
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These communities have long understood that the trees,
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the mountain, water, soil are not commodities.
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They are relatives to be cherished for following generations to embrace and protect.
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We can all play a role by embracing that wisdom in our day-to-day lives,
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by loving the planet, by honoring nature's authority,
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her generosity, the bounty she affords us, the justice of her example.
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the world you're stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess.
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Saving nature isn't our only job.
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There are opportunities to be embraced in society, in business, in the kind of lives we live.
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So find a place for yourself.
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Whatever talent or ambition you have, find some way to put it to work.
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Build something that didn't exist yesterday.
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Stand up for someone who can't stand up for themselves.
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Bring people together who weren't talking before.
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That's leadership.
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That's what moves the needle.
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generation has far more power than you may realize.
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And if you harness that power, if you find your leadership,
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your issues, your voice, the world will not be able to ignore you.
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You will have to be accommodated.
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Believe me, I know that's true.
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Don't wait.
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When opportunity presents, recognize it.
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This is your time.
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Own it.
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Enjoy every second of it.
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Because what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing that you haven't fully lived it?
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Congratulations.
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Go change the world.
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Il contesto: Una lezione di vita da Harrison Ford

Nel video, Harrison Ford condivide la sua storia universitaria e professionale, raccontando come un corso di teatro cambiò la sua vita. È un dialogo autentico, ricco di emozione e riflessione, perfetto per esercitarti nella comprensione di un inglese parlato naturale e per apprendere a esprimere concetti profondi. Attraverso le sue parole, puoi anche esercitare la pratica di conversazione in inglese, imitando il tono e l'intonazione di un discorso pubblico.

Frasi e collocazioni utili da memorizzare

  • "Squandering my life in riotous living": "Sprecando la mia vita in vita dissoluta" – una collocazione vividissima per esprimere lo spreco di opportunità.
  • "Followed through with the work": "Portato a termine il lavoro" – utile per parlare di impegno e determinazione.
  • "Passion brings you joy. Purpose brings you meaning": "La passione ti dà gioia. Lo scopo ti dà significato" – una distinzione chiave tra due concetti fondamentali.
  • "The load lightened": "Il peso si è alleggerito" – un'espressione figurata per indicare che le cose sono andate meglio.

La tua sfida di shadowing: Imita Harrison Ford!

Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità, prova questo esercizio di shadowing in inglese: Riproduci un frammento del video (ad esempio, la parte dove parla del corso di teatro) e imita immediatamente la sua voce, cercando di seguire il ritmo, l'intonazione e la pausa. Ripeti il processo 5 volte. Questo metodo, chiamato anche shadow speech, aiuta a rafforzare l'orecchio e la pronuncia. Se vuoi un shadowing site per esercitarti di più, cerca piattaforme che offrano testi sincronizzati con l'audio – ma per ora, inizia con questo video: è il modo più semplice per mettere in pratica quello che hai imparato! Ricorda: la chiave è la costanza. Ogni minuto di pratica ti avvicina a un inglese più fluido e naturale.

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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