シャドーイング練習: How Does Money Factor into Your Life's Purpose - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Did the color of your fire change?
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Oh, absolutely.
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I'm just, you know, During the-- first of all, nothing was better.
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Nothing was better, nor will ever replace or should the years of the Oprah show.
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There will never be a time like that again.
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for me and I think for all the team members.
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I mean, the...
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And that's what I mean by the velocity and the intensity.
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And I can speak to that because I know
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that So many things happened at such an intense rate that I don't remember half of it.
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I don't remember.
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Because we were just sitting around the table the other night talking with the crew, and they were saying, "This story and this story." I go, "I don't remember that.
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I don't remember that." Because I was just going at such full speed.
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Yeah.
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And so now, what I have is great, pure satisfaction from every conversation.
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So I'm not going from this conversation to the next conversation, the next conversation.
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I'm not trying to fill, you know, 200 shows a year.
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I'm not trying to.
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you know, prove anything.
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First of all, neither you nor I have anything left to prove.
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Right.
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We've done it.
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We've reached the pinnacle of success and achieved and all of that. So everything
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that I do now is basically an offering to help other people see their lives in a more meaningful way
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and what to make of their lives.
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That's what it's all for for me.
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Yeah.
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And I think that's because when the fire changes color, and you are at this different phase, then these amazing things happen late.
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And this notion that somehow we have this peak when we're young, And then it goes like this.
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Well, that's the thing I was saying.
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No matter where you all are in your life, this book is going to be so valuable to you because I'm so shocked at the number of people
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who've done extraordinary things.
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To read that Meryl Streep, most of her Academy Award nominations came after age 60.
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Yeah, she did so many of them.
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She was...
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I mean, talk about somebody who's encoded.
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Yes.
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And has been...
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in frame doing this for so many years.
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And that was a place with her story.
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I watched every one of her films in sequence, which was very interesting.
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Well, as I was reading about her films, I was thinking, gosh, you know what?
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I'm going to have myself a Meryl Streep Festival.
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You should.
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Absolutely.
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I'm going to have myself a Meryl Streep Festival and watch all of those movies.
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That's right.
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And you see the evolution.
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You can see different phases of life.
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playing different roles.
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But what's so interesting is, I mean, she has more Oscar nominations than anybody.
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Anybody.
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I like a factor of two.
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Yes.
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And they don't stack early.
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They're spread throughout, and she has about half of them.
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Her first one was age 29.
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That's right.
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And then she gets all the way out into her 60s, and she has as many nominations in her 60s as when she was in her...
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in her younger years per decade, is amazing.
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And the fire hasn't gone out.
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You can just see that it just gets out.
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Yeah, we're just waiting for Devil Wears product.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so I found this to be a seminal question that you posed on page 99.
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Stop and think for a moment.
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You say, "What is the relationship between work and money?" I love this.
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Y 'all are going to love this.
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Is the purpose of work to make money or is the purpose of money to be able to do one's work?
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That's right.
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Well, that depends on how we define and think about work.
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I think people get really caught up in the money thing.
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How do you flip the arrow of money, as you say?
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Yeah.
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So that was a...
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Like a really critical thing for me to see was that it wasn't about just the economics.
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It was about What direction the arrow goes?
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And there's so many different people that illustrate this in the study.
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But, you know, I think about Maurice White, the founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, you know, and he's doing One meal a day They cost a dollar.
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So a dollar a day, a meal a day, while he's getting his music going to eventually get to do Earth, Wind & Fire.
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And he didn't do music to make money, but he needed money to do music.
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Right.
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- Right.
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- And so he had to do the gigs, and he had to put things in place.
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But then later, when "Earth, Wind & Fire" was really going, it was really interesting.
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He would do these albums with the band, But then he always took the money from that and put it back into doing more music and more spectacular performances.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Some of those performances.
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Do you remember?
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I do.
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And then putting it right back in and then those would generate economics to do more. And so,
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It's like if you understand that Money is fuel to do what you're encoded for
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that feeds the fire rather than the point is to make money.
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The problem is if the point is to make money, and then you make money, what do you do next?
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If the point is, as we were talking earlier, we don't need to do any of this for money.
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But if that's not the point anyways, you never want to stop.
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Yeah. Because...
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But I will have to say, even in the years of The Oprah Show, when I first started doing that show, if they had told me, "You were not gonna make any money doing this show," I would have done it.
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That's right.
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one of the most important moments in my life was doing "The Color Purple." I did that for $35 ,000.
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And I remember when my lawyer was saying, "I'm going to ask them for 50," and I go, "No, don't ask them for 50.
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I'll do it for 35." I've never actually made.. any decision based on money.
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I've never done anything for the purpose of making money.
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And actually, can I spend just a moment on this?
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Because we have some people in our study like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, who just went on with his singing, doing amazing things late in life.
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And he turned down the opportunity to do probably the first billion -dollar reunion tour with Zeppelin.
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And he decided not to do it.
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And people say, yeah, but that's easy because he's already wealthy.
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And what I want people to understand is that Robert Plant's circumstances changed.
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But the reason he did what he did was always the same.
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So he started out without money.
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then ended up with a lot of money, but his motivation was always the same, which was to sing.
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And so I'm curious if that's true for you, that the motivation has always been the same.
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It's just the circumstances are different.
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Exactly.
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And the fact that I was encoded to do that talk show, I was encoded to do that,
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is what allowed me to be so successful at it.
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It was as natural as breathing to me.
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I was the most comfortable in the most in front of an audience.
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Okay.
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I want to talk about this because so many of you are going to be able to relate to this.
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And Jim talks about in What to Make of a Life the competence doom loop i've seen this
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so many times during my working career
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and you write on page 111 one of the great traps of life and see
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if this is you one of the great traps of life
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is the curse of the competence doom loop it goes like this you become reasonably competent at something
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that doesn't capture your encodings or ignite the inner fire but it pays you well work hard
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leads to increased opportunities to do even more of what does not fit your encodings or ignite the inner fire, and you're getting paid even more to do it.
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That's the loop that so many people are in that can't get themselves out.
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I actually have a lot of compassion for how that happens because They may have family responsibilities.
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That's right.
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They may have a need to provide for others.
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There may be reasons for that.
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And so it's not like it's a defect, but once you get trapped in it, it's really hard to get out of it because you just get better and better paid at doing something you're not encoded.
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That you don't even like.
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Yeah.
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And one day you wake up to discover that years or decades have passed.
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You're well paid.
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and out of frame.
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The inner fire is still there, but gradually going dormant.

コンテキストと背景

この動画では、成功と人生の目的についての深い洞察を提供しています。スピーカーは、オプラショーの思い出を語りながら、人生の異なるフェーズでの自己の進化について振り返ります。彼女は、多くの人々が年齢を重ねながらも素晴らしい業績を達成できることを強調し、人生を意味深いものにするための対話の重要性を示しています。このようなトピックは、英語を学ぶ者にとって学ぶべき重要なテーマであり、特に「IELTS スピーキング対策」において役立つスキルの向上に寄与します。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • 「この話とこの話。」 - 具体的なエピソードを引用することで、会話を深める。
  • 「覚えていません。」 - 忘れたことを正直に伝えることで、親しみやすい印象を与える。
  • 「純粋な満足感。」 - 何かをした後のポジティブな感情を表現する。
  • 「他の人を助けるための提供。」 - 自分の行動が他者にどのように影響するかを示す。
  • 「異なるフェーズを演じる。」 - 人生における多様な役割を理解する重要性。

ステップバイステップ シャドーイングガイド

この動画の内容をシャドーイングするための効果的な方法は次の通りです:

  1. 初めに動画を視聴: まず、全体を通して動画を観てストーリーを把握します。
  2. セクションごとに再生: 短いセクションに区切り、各部分を数回聴きます。
  3. シャドーイングの実施: 音声と同時に声に出して話します。この時、shadowspeakの技術を使うと良いでしょう。
  4. 録音して確認: 自分の声を録音し、オリジナルの音声と比較してどの部分を改善すべきかを確認します。
  5. 再度の練習: 専用の英語シャドーイングサイトやアプリを利用して、定期的に練習することでスキルを磨き続けます。

このような手法を取り入れることで、shadow speakの技術が向上し、会話力やスピーキングスキルが自然に向上していくでしょう。定期的な練習は、特に「IELTS スピーキング対策」に非常に有効です。

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているWe've done · We've reached · who've done
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるsequence, which was · same, which was

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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