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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
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Nothing.
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Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small
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and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living.
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I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on.
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Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey.
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But I never understood that concept having something to fall back on
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if I'm going to fall I want to fall forward
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I figure at least this way
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I'll see what I'm going to hit Reggie Jackson struck out
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2 ,600 times in his career the most in the history of baseball
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but you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the home runs
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fall forward Thomas Edison conducted 1 ,000 failed experiments did you know that?
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I didn't know that.
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Because the 1 ,001st was the light bulb.
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Fall forward.
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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
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There's an old saying, you hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later you're gonna get a haircut.
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So you will catch a break and I did catch a break.
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Last year I did a play called Fences on Broadway.
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But here's the kicker.
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It was at the Court Theatre.
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It was at the same theatre that I failed that first audition 30 years prior.
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Here's my second point about failure.
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If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
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I'll say it again.
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If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
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My wife told me this great expression.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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Les Brown's a motivational speaker, he made an analogy about this.
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He says, imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential.
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The ghost of the ideas you never acted on.
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The ghost of the talents you didn't use.
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And they're standing around your bed angry, disappointed and upset.
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They say we came to you
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because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the grave together.
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So I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?
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So have dreams but have goals.
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Life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals.
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I try to give myself a goal every day and understand
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that to achieve these goals you must apply discipline
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and consistency in order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline
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which you were already done and consistency every day not just on Tuesday
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and miss a few days you have to work at it every day
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you have to plan every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan
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hard work works working really hard is what successful people do and in this text tweet
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twerk world that you've grown up in.
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Remember, just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
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Remember that.
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Just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.
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Don't confuse movement with progress.
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My mother told me, she said, yeah, because you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere.
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So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress.
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Number three, you'll never see a U -Haul behind a hearse.
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I'll say it again.
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You'll never see a U -Haul behind a hearse.
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I don't care how much money you make, you can't take it with you.
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The Egyptians tried it.
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They got robbed.
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That's all they got.
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You can't take it with you, with you.
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And it's not how much you have.
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It's what you do with what you have.
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The most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else.
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Why is it selfish?
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Because the gratification, the goodness that comes to you, the good feeling, the good feeling that I get from helping others.
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Nothing's better than that.
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Well, one or two things, but nothing's better than that.
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Not jewelry, not big house I have, not the cars, but it's the joy.
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That's where the joy is in helping others.
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That's where the success is in helping others.
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You'll see everything I'm talking about today.
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You'll see what I mean about taking risk or being willing to fail.
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Because taking risk is not just about going for a job.
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It's also about knowing what you know and what you don't know.
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It's about being open to people and to ideas.
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In the course of the film, the character I play begins to take small steps, small risks he very,
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very, very slowly begins to overcome his fears.
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And I feel ultimately his heart becomes flooded with love.
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And I can't think of a better message as we send you off today.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life, to accept new views, and to be open to new opinions.
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While it may be frightening, it will also be rewarding.
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Because the chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have,
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that's what's going to define you.
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Never be discouraged.
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Never hold back.
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Give everything you've got.
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And when you fall throughout life, and maybe even tonight after a few mini glasses of champagne, remember this.
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fall forward.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “You Will Never Be Ready”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: goal, fall, fail, risk, ghost. Questo video contiene 89 frasi e 902 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:48. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 133 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| ghost sostantivo | /ɡoʊst/ | fantasma, spettro |
| experiment sostantivo | /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ | esperimento |
| discipline sostantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| selfish aggettivo | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | egoista, egoistico |
| consistency sostantivo | /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/ | coerenza, costanza |
| passion sostantivo | /ˈpæʃən/ | passione |
| disappointed aggettivo | /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/ | deluso |
| honey sostantivo | /ˈhʌni/ | miele |
| settle verbo | /ˈsɛtəl/ | risolvere |
| rob verbo | /ɹɑb/ | rapinare, saccheggiare |
| flood sostantivo | /flʌd/ | inondazione, alluvione |
| reward sostantivo | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | ricompensa |
| define verbo | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | definire, determinare |
| grave sostantivo | /ɡɹeɪv/ | fossa, tomba |
| overcome verbo | /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/ | superare, sconfiggere |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| hold back verbo | fare complimenti |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Here's my second point about failure.
- If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
- The ghost of the talents you didn't use.
- You can't take it with you, with you.
- It's what you do with what you have.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have told · you've heard · you've grown |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be found · be discouraged |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 39 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, don't, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: honey /ˈhʌni/, haircut /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/, hearse /hɝs/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: ghost /ɡoʊst/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, selfish /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, rob /ɹɑb/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: passion /ˈpæʃən/, champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/, gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, strikeout /stɹaɪːkæʊt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come ghost, experiment, discipline.
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.