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When asked what's the biggest mistake we make in life, the Buddha replied, the biggest mistake is you think you have time.
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Time is free, but it's priceless.
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You can't own it, but you can use it.
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You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
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And once it's lost, you can never get it back.
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The average person lives 78 years.
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We spend 28 .3 years of our life sleeping.
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That's almost a third of our life, but 30 % of us struggle to sleep well.
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We spend 10 .5 years of our life working, but over 50 % of us want to leave our current jobs.
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Time is more valuable than money.
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You can get more money, but you can never get more time.
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We spend nine years on TV and social media.
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We spend six years doing chores.
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We spend four years eating and drinking.
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We spend three and a half years in education.
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We spend two and a half years grooming.
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We spend two and a half years shopping.
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We spend one and a half years in childcare and we spend 1 .3 years commuting.
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That leaves us with nine years.
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How will we spend that time?
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Steve Jobs said your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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So there's good news and there's bad news.
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The bad news is time flies, the good news is you're the pilot.
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Imagine you wake up every day with $86 ,400 in your bank account
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and at the end of the night it's all gone.
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Whether you spent it or not.
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And then the next day you get another $86 ,400.
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What would we do with it?
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Every day 86 ,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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At the end of the day, once they're all used up, you get a new 86 ,400 seconds.
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We would never waste it if it was money.
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So why do we waste it when it comes to time?
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Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars, you can't always make more time.
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To realise the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
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To realise the value of one month, ask a mother who lost her child in the final month.
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To realise the value of one week, ask the editor of an online magazine.
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To realise the value of one hour, ask the couple who's in a long distance relationship.
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To realize the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train or plane
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To realize the value of one second, ask the person who just missed an accident
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And to realize the value of a millisecond,
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ask the person who just came second at the Olympics We think that it's people wasting our time,
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that it's really us giving them the permission to do that and in reality these two people live inside us.
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Don't let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Some of us lose the people most important to us because we don't value their time.
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Some of us don't recognize how important someone is to us until they're gone.
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Inside all of us are two voices.
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One voice that wants to uplift, one voice that wants us to expand, one voice that wants us to grow and then there's the other voice,
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the voice that holds us back, the voice that makes us lazy, the voice that makes us complacent, the voice that restricts us from our potential.
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Every day from the moment we wake up to the moment
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we go to sleep inside of us there's this battle between the two voices and guess which one wins?
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The one that we listen to the most, the one that we feed, the one that we amplify.
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It is our choice of how we use our time.
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Life and time are the best two teachers.
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Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.
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And as William Shakespeare said, time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared,
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very long for those who are sad very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “The Value of TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: spend, voice, value, realise, waste. Questo video contiene 56 frasi e 703 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:38. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 152 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 94% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

14 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
priority sostantivo/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/priorità
expand verbo/ɪkˈspænd/estendere, espandere
deposit sostantivo/dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/deposito, versamento
lazy aggettivo/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/pigro
leaf sostantivo/lif/foglia
eternal aggettivo/ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/eterno
scare verbo/skɛɚ/spaventare, impaurire
restrict verbo/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/restringere, limitare
groom verbo/ɡɹum/curare la propria persona, rendersi presentabile
priceless aggettivo/ˈpɹaɪslɪs/impagabile, incalcolabile
amplify verbo/ˈæm.plə.faɪ/ingrandire, amplificare
chore sostantivo/t͡ʃoɹ/corvè
millisecond sostantivo/ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/millisecondo
uplift verbo/ʌpˈlɪft/elevare, esaltare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • You can't own it, but you can use it.
  • You can't keep it, but you can spend it.
  • How will we spend that time?
  • What would we do with it?

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, can't, they're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, deposit /dɪˈpɑ.zɪt/, leaf /lif/, restrict /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/, priceless /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: expand /ɪkˈspænd/, amplify /ˈæm.plə.faɪ/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come priority, expand, deposit.

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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