Pratica di Shadowing: "I Got Rich When I Understood This" | Jeff Bezos - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
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I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people,
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and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.
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I went to my boss and told him I was going to start a company selling books on the internet.
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He took me on a long walk in Central Park,
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listened carefully to me, and finally said,
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That sounds like a really good idea,
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but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.
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You can have a job,
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or you can have a career,
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or you can have a calling.
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And if you can somehow figure out how to have a calling,
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you have hit the jackpot,
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because that's the big deal.
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I met Jeff Bezos 25 years ago,
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and he told me, Dave,
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I want you to invest in my company.
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What are you doing?
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a bookstore in my garage.
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Okay, I'm going to put it online.
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People buy online and I'm going to ship out of my garage.
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But if you invest in me,
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Dave, someday I'm going to be the richest man in the world.
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I'll do over $100 billion.
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First of all, there's no such thing as $100 billion 25 years ago.
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Statistically, there's no such thing.
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Countries didn't have our national debt wasn't $100 billion.
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And this dude's telling me,
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at 26 years old,
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that he's going to be the richest man in the world because he has a garage and the internet? That was his truth.
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No, but he did not know it, and neither did I.
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But the difference between him and I is I was laughing,
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scoffing, and jesting at him,
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and he was already applauding himself,
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going, at the right way,
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at the perfect time, I'm going to make as much as I can as quickly,
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and I'm sitting there going,
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there's no way this is going to be a big business.
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Do something you're very passionate about.
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And don't try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day.
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Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice.
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But ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.
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I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing.
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And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
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After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion,
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and I'm proud of that choice.
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As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor.
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I'd invented an automatic gate-closer out of cement-filled tires,
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a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella in aluminum foil,
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baking pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
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I'd always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.
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There's a military phrase that I especially love and it says,
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slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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And I have seen that in every endeavor I've ever been in.
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That's the kind of thing that really allows you to make progress.
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You know, you get certain gifts in life and you to take advantage of those.
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But you, I guess my advice on adversity and success would be to be proud not of your gifts,
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but of your hard work and your choices.
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So you know, you may be,
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the kinds of gifts you get,
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you know, you might be really good at math,
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might be really easy for you.
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That's a kind of gift.
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But practicing that math and taking it to the next step
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that could be very challenging and hard and take a lot of sweat.
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That's a choice.
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You can't really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you.
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You can be grateful for them and thankful for them,
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but your choices, you choose to work hard,
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you choose to do hard things.
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Those are choices that you can be proud of.
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You can choose.
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We all get to choose our life stories and it's the choices that define us,
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not our gifts.
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Everybody in this room has many gifts.
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I have many gifts.
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You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts.
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They were given to you.
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You might be tall or you might be really good at math,
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or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome,
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or you know, there are many gifts,
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and you can only be proud really of your choices,
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because those are the things that you are acting on.
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And one of the most important choices that each of us has,
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and you know this just as well as I do,
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is you can choose a life of ease and comfort,
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or you can choose a life of service and adventure.
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And when you're 80, which one of those things do you think you're going to be more proud of?
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You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure.
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There's never been a better time to be alive.
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I mean, it's just incredible the amount of inspiration
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that the world generates for me and I think for a lot of people.
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It's just insane the amount of change and invention and opportunity.
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Your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.
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How will you use your gifts?
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What choices will you make?
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Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?
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Will you follow dogma or will you be original?
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Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?
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Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions?
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Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
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Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?
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Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
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When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless?
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Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?
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Will you be clever at the expense of others?
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Or will you be kind?
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Every time you figure out some way of providing tools and services that empower other people to deploy their creativity,
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you're really on to something.
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You know, you're very lucky if you have a career.
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A lot of people end up with a job.
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If you don't love your work,
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you're never going to be great at it.
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Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo,
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Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted I wanted to be alive,
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most of all, right now.
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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts,
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just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
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How will you use these gifts?
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And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
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Praticare la conversazione in inglese attraverso il video di Jeff Bezos offre un'opportunità unica per apprendere non solo la lingua, ma anche a sviluppare la tua mentalità imprenditoriale. Il contenuto tratta temi come il rischio, la passione e l'innovazione, tutti elementi fondamentali che possono ispirare il tuo percorso di apprendimento. Utilizzando questo video, non solo migliorerai la tua pronuncia inglese, ma acquisirai anche la fiducia necessaria per esprimere le tue idee. Questo è essenziale per chi desidera avere conversazioni significative e pertinenti nel mondo reale.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel discorso di Bezos, ci sono diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni che possono essere particolarmente utili per gli studenti di lingua inglese:

  • "I was working at a financial firm" - Questa frase in passato continua è utile per descrivere esperienze precedenti. Imparare a usare il passato aiuta a raccontare storie in modo più efficace.
  • "If you can somehow figure out..." - L'uso di "somehow" mostra incertezza e apertura a possibilità, un'espressione comune nel parlato quotidiano.
  • "I had to give it a shot" - Questa espressione colloquiale significa provare a fare qualcosa, un'espressione importante per incoraggiare l'azione, che può essere tradotta come "ho dovuto provarci".
  • "There's no way this is going to be a big business" - Utilizzare il futuro presente in frasi negative è un modo comune per esprimere scetticismo, ed è un'abilità preziosa per chi desidera partecipare a discussioni più complesse.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Nel video, ci sono alcune parole e accenti che potrebbero esser difficili per gli apprendisti. Ecco alcuni aspetti da tenere a mente:

  • "entrepreneur" - Questa parola francese è comunemente pronunciata in modo errato. Assicurati di enfatizzare la 'eur' finale, che può richiedere pratica per migliorare la pronuncia inglese.
  • "realized" - Spesso, gli studenti sottovalutano la pronuncia della 'z' finale. Praticare usando tecniche di shadowing come shadowspeak può aiutarti a pronunciare correttamente parole simili.
  • "passion" - Fai attenzione all'accento sulla prima sillaba e cerca di non ridurre la 'a'. Questo tipo di precisione può essere fondamentale durante la pratica di conversazione in inglese.

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