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happiness has tons of unhappiness in it to be happy is to be fully alive
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that's what it comes down to is to be is to
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have a is to enjoy your life not pleasure enjoyment
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which has people and meaning and it manages your pleasures
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which means foregoing a lot of your pleasures
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it means a self a self -managing individual is one who has true enjoyment not just pleasure it means satisfaction
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which is the joy of accomplishments with struggle
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that's what you're talking about without the struggle there's no sweetness
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there's no satisfaction it's just accomplishments like being born with daddy's money
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there's no satisfaction from being born rich the satisfaction comes from the struggle
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that it comes to get rich and then the rich part is almost beside the point
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and last but not least is the meaning
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and i could ask you about the moments of greatest meaning in your life where you find your resilience
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and your will to live and you're gonna tell me something something painful about your mother almost dying or,
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you know, a true loss that you've had in your life.
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You're not going to talk about that week at the beach at Editha.
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That's not what you're going to tell me about.
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You're going to tell me about hard things.
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The truth of the matter is that if you try to avoid suffering in any way, you will avoid your happiness.
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That's the truth of the matter.
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And so Alex Hormozzi says that happiness is a scam.
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That's because he thinks of happiness as a, Alex Hormozzi's great, but doesn't mean he's a happiness scientist
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and he things of happiness as a feeling feelings are just evidence of happiness don't chase a feeling
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that's insane that's like the smell of my turkey is my
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thanksgiving dinner no the smell of the turkey is evidence of your thanksgiving dinner look for the protein carbohydrates
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and fat and strive to get the macronutrients and balance
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and abundance with a delicious recipe then you'll actually be then you'll have a nutritious meal
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that will build your body and give you what you actually need
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and that you'll actually enjoy and find satisfying
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and even meaningful assuming you get your thanksgiving dinner with the people
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that you love that's really what it comes down to there's nothing at odds with these ideas of pain
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and suffering and the best possible life that's full of happiness
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and that's what we need to understand
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and that's one of the things by the way
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that your generation's been lied to that that if you're sad
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and anxious there's something wrong with you
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and you got to fix it no are you kidding me i mean this is life if you're not sad and anxious.
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You need therapy, man.
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Something's wrong.
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Now it can be maladapted.
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You know, clinical depression, generalized anxiety are real diagnosable disorders, and everybody should take their meds if they're taking meds, right?
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But the truth of the matter is I want it all, man.
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Bring it on.
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I want the pain.
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I want the trouble.
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I want the challenge.
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I want the tragedy.
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I want the grief i want all of it
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because i want to be happy i think the key thing there is
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that oftentimes depression
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which i would say is more of a metaphor for being in a depressed state yeah
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it's actually just a normal reaction to an abnormal set of circumstances
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that are incongruent with or a normal set of circumstances normal i mean the truth is
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that it's very normal for you to have adversity and setbacks
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and if you didn't have them you wouldn't learn and grow
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but you have natural emotions
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which are the proper functioning in the limbic system of your brain saying
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that these are things that are a threat and
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that you should work to avoid or manage that's normal fear anger disgust
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and sadness are the four negative emotions and
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and you literally have different parts of your limbic system
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that were developed to process each one of these emotions
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and they've evolved and persisted
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because these are are good for you not bad for you you're supposed to feel sadness
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when you lose someone or something that you love.
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And the reason that sadness is incredibly uncomfortable is because you need to have an incentive to avoid these losses.
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But when these losses are inevitable, you understand your life better when you process that emotion.
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That's the paradox of being fully alive.
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There's a great early Christian saint named Saint Irenaeus in the second century.
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And his greatest quote is
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that the glory of God is a person fully alive the glory of god
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so in other words to be in god's image is to be fully alive
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guess what that means lots of misery that means trouble is what
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that actually means
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and that's an important understanding of life right
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i don't want to walk around with a smiley face all the time
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i want the full experience i want to bring
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it on man the full monty every single day that's what i want
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Stop Avoiding Discomfort If You Want Real Happiness”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: happiness, normal, satisfaction, emotion, pleasure. Questo video contiene 78 frasi e 867 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:30. Chi parla va veloce, circa 193 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| happiness sostantivo | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | felicità, gioia |
| emotion sostantivo | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | emozione |
| satisfaction sostantivo | /sætɪsˈfækʃən/ | soddisfazione |
| sadness sostantivo | /ˈsædnəs/ | tristezza |
| suffer verbo | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | soffrire, penare |
| glory sostantivo | /ˈɡlɔːɹi/ | gloria |
| anxious aggettivo | /ˈæŋkʃəs/ | inquieto |
| accomplishment sostantivo | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/ | realizzazione, attuazione |
| circumstance sostantivo | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | circostanza |
| meal sostantivo | /ˈmiːl/ | pasto |
| anxiety sostantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | ansia, ansietà |
| chase verbo | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | inseguire, cacciare |
| anger sostantivo | /ˈæŋɡə/ | ira, rabbia |
| odd aggettivo | /ɑd/ | strano, strambo |
| insane aggettivo | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | insano, pazzo |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being born · been lied · can be maladapted |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | you've had · generation's been lied · they've evolved |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 20 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, you'll, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, carbohydrate /kɑɹboʊˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, saint /seɪnt/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, med /mɛːd/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/, thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, sadness /ˈsædnəs/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
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 happiness, emotion, satisfaction.
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.