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1453. An army approaches Constantinople.
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If you're inside the walls of Constantinople, you probably feel okay, because after all, those walls had stood for more than a thousand years.
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There's a literal moat that goes around the city.
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Once you get past the moat, you get to two sets of walls, each 18 feet thick.
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Those walls were impenetrable before.
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Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, Three ingredients that, when combined in the right way, created gunpowder.
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First identified in about 142.
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1 ,300 years later, a mysterious figure named Orban appears.
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He goes to the people inside the walls, the Byzantine Empire, and says, I can sell you something that will protect your city.
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The Byzantine Empire passes.
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Orban goes to the Ottoman Empire that is seeking to sack the city and makes the same proposition they say yes.
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Imagine how it felt.
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Walls
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that had stood for a thousand years faced the onslaught of a half -ton cannonball flung over the distance of a mile.
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The wall shattered.
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The city fell in 47 days.
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Disruption changes everything.
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The question you have to ask in modern times is what is the moat
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that we have that we built yesterday that might protect us today but will be powerless against the disruptions in the future.
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Why is it that market leaders pass on disruptive innovations?
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Well, when you first see a disruptive innovation, it looks really different.
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It looks unfamiliar and therefore it's pretty easy to discount it.
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If you're inside walls that had stood for a thousand years and you see this unproven cannon present in front of you,
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you don't fully understand it.
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You don't fully see its use.
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You're used to horses.
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You're used to cavalry.
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You're used to arrows.
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Those are things that had worked for a very long period of time.
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It's only once you see the full demonstration of the power of the disruption that you really, truly get it.
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Why historically have disruptive innovations tended to start with upstarts?
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Well, Bob Dylan put it pretty well, when you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
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A market leader sees downside.
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They see risks.
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They see threats.
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Somebody who is an upstart sees nothing but gain and possibility.
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So therefore, it's pretty natural that an upstart will go and gravitate to following a new disruptive approach.
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And the research shows that's a smart thing to do.
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If you try to take on the incumbent in a battle
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that they are used to playing and you try to do it better, they're going to beat you most of the time.
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Clay Christensen called that a sustaining innovation battle.
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If you try to take them on with a very different form of battle, you've got a much greater chance of winning.
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So it's natural that if you don't go and counteract these forces, the upstart's going to see it and jump all over it.
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The incumbent's going to hesitate and pause.
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When you look at a new innovation, it always feels like there's risk involved.
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So you have to make a decision.
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Am I going to put a dollar, euro, rupee, whatever, into this innovation or that innovation?
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One of the big challenges a market leader has is a comparison.
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Should I spend that unit of resource making today better or should I spend it making tomorrow different?
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If you're a company that's got nothing, you only think about what do I do that's going to have the maximum impact.
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You look for the most exciting things, the things with the most potential.
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Your resources naturally allocate towards the disruption.
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This is the rational part of the innovator's dilemma.
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Left unchecked, the resource allocation process inside an organization will direct everything to the known,
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to the proven, to the things that appear to be safe, not recognizing that you're actually taking a risk by not taking a risk,
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by leaving yourself susceptible to somebody who comes at you with a disruptive innovation.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Walls and Moats Won't Save You. Innovation Will”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: innovation, walls, disruptive, disruption, risk. Questo video contiene 51 frasi e 656 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:12. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 156 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| innovation sostantivo | /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/ | innovazione |
| disruption sostantivo | /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/ | disruzione, rottura |
| resource sostantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | risorsa |
| naturally avverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente |
| thick aggettivo | /θɪk/ | spesso |
| discount sostantivo | /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ | sconto |
| clay sostantivo | /kleɪ/ | argilla, creta |
| mysterious aggettivo | /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/ | misterioso, ignoto |
| arrow sostantivo | /ˈæɹəʊ/ | freccia |
| combine verbo | /kəmˈbaɪn/ | combinare, mischiare |
| euro sostantivo | /ˈjʊɹoʊ/ | euro |
| historically avverbio | /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/ | storicamente |
| demonstration sostantivo | /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/ | dimostrazione |
| rational aggettivo | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | razionale, lucido |
| pause sostantivo | /pɔːz/ | pausa |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 13 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, ain't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, demonstration /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, hesitate /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, incumbent /ɪnˈkʌmbənt/, thick /θɪk/, discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, arrow /ˈæɹəʊ/, canon /ˈkæn.ən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, sack /sæk/
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 innovation, disruption, resource.
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.