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Music It's
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a thousand songs in a pop.
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The iPod.
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If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
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Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward.
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You can only connect them looking backwards.
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So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing
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that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even
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when it leads you off the well-worn path.
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And that will make all the difference.
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I was lucky.
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I found what I loved to do early in life, when I was 20.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about it.
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I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle.
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As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
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And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
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So keep looking, don't settle.
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like, If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
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It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, if today were the last day of my life,
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would I want to do what I am about to do today?
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And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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Remembering
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that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
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Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death,
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leaving only what is truly important.
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Remembering
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that you are going to die is the best way I
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know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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are already naked there is no reason not to follow your
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heart no one wants to die we gotta risk everything great artists Dylan Picasso new they risk failure and
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if we want to be great we gotta risk it too
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even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there
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and yet death is the destination we all share No one has ever escaped it.
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And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
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It's life's change agent.
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It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Right now, the new is you.
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But someday, not too long from now, you will truly become the old and be cleared away.
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Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
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Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your own inner voice.
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And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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Everything else is secondary.
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Were the words, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
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It was their farewell message as they signed off.
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hungry, stay foolish.
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And I have always wished that for myself.
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Because people will never stop believing that they can get more out of something.
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Whether it be their jobs, their marriage, their money, their lives.
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It's the belief in the limitless, the impossible.
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And no matter what you dream, you can do it.
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When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way that it is.
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Your life is just to live your life inside the world and try not to bash into the walls too much.
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That's a very limited life.
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact
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and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
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And you can change it.
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You can influence it.
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You can build your own things that other people can use,
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is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is just there and you're just gonna live in it versus embrace it,
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change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
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And once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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Here's to the crazy ones.
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The misfits.
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The rebels.
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The troublemakers.
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The round pegs in the square holes.
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The ones who see things differently.
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They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
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You can quote them, disagree with them,
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glorify or vilify them about the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
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Because they change things.
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They push the human race forward.
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And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
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Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Thank you all very much.
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Thank you.
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Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?
Questo video di Steve Jobs è una vera gemma per chi vuole migliorare l'inglese parlato, soprattutto con la tecnica del shadowing in inglese. La sua lingua è fluida, motivazionale e ricca di contenuti profondi, ma anche accessibile: perfetta per esercitarti a seguire il ritmo, l'intonazione e le pause. Il shadow speech (ripetere immediatamente dopo il parlante) con questo testo ti aiuterà a rafforzare la confidenza e a internalizzare frasi naturali. E se vuoi imparare l'inglese con YouTube, non c'è modo migliore: un discorso autentico, non un dialogo artificiale, che ti mostra come usare la lingua nella vita reale.
Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto
Analizziamo alcune strutture chiave per il tuo esercizio:
- "If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in...": Una condizionale tipo 3, usata per parlare di situazioni ipotetiche passate. Perfetta per esercitare la pronuncia delle forme contratte (had never, would have).
- "You have to trust that the dots will connect...": L'uso di that come congiunzione per introdurre una proposizione soggettiva. Aiuta a creare frasi complesse senza sbagliare la struttura.
- "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life": La forma be going to per esprimere intenzioni o previsioni. Ideale per il shadowspeak, perché è una struttura molto usata nella conversazione quotidiana.
Trappole di pronuncia comuni
Attenzione a questi punti quando fai il shadow speak:
- "Typography": La pronuncia corretta è /taɪˈpɒɡrəfi/, con l'accento sulla seconda sillaba. Evita di dire "tipografia" come in italiano!
- "Karma": Anche se è una parola straniera, in inglese si dice /ˈkɑːmə/, non "carma". Ascolta bene come Jobs la pronuncia.
- "Dogma": La "g" è sonora, quindi /ˈdɒɡmə/. Non confonderla con "doga"!
Ricorda: il segreto è ripetere, ripetere, ripetere. Con questo video, il shadowing in inglese diventerà un gioco, e ogni giorno noterai il progresso. Non ti arrendi: la tua voce interiore merita di essere sentita, anche in inglese!
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
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| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | haven't found · I've looked · has been |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was replaced · be cleared · be trapped |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who want · dogma, which is · ones who see |
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.