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Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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I appreciate the welcome, and it's nice to come by and have a chance to visit with you.
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Claude and I do go back a few years, and it's nice to be invited back.
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I did three lectures here last year, and it says something to be invited back.
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Maybe it doesn't say everything, but it says something.
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Maybe it says let's give him one more chance, see if he can pull it out this time.
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It's nice to see all of you.
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How many of you this is the first time you've seen me?
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Can I see your hands?
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Okay, most of you
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Some of you I recognize have been back a few times the last few years that I've been coming to Phoenix
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But I appreciate being invited to come and spend some time with you.
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I just got back from Australia my ninth lecture tour of Australia and got to see the America's Cup in Perth.
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Unfortunately, it's in Perth but
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in 1987 we're gonna go back and get it right
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but life's been good to me
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and after being single 10 years last year at the crystal cathedral in Garden Grove California
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I got married got somebody now to share the rest of my life with
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so what a fascinating journey for me
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and now to have the opportunity to be invited to come by
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and share some of my thoughts with you and see
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if I can't invest some of my ideas in in your better future and then
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if I meet you a year from now ten years from now you might say the day you came by
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and talked to us was a good day for me it gave me some ideas to try and
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so that's what I'd like to do in the next few minutes in the time
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we've got is to give you what I think are some major things
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that can help in putting your life together some things at least to consider
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I don't have all the answers on how to do well
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but I've got some I'm using and I'm practicing and it's working well for me
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So let me just share with you my experience and then you can decide if it's valid for you
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Give it a try if it doesn't make sense.
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Just throw it out, right?
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You don't have to buy everything any one person says
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Here's the key be a student not a follower
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Be a student not a follower
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Somebody says I read this book should I follow
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and the answer is no read at least two books and make up your own mind Right?
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Don't be a follower.
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Be a student. Be independent.
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Take advice but not orders.
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Only give yourself orders.
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Make sure what you finally do is the product of your own conclusion.
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That's what university is for, to debate all the ideas, not just to buy them all, debate them all, and then decide what's best for you,
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where to go from there.
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But university is a great place to hear an exchange of ideas on a wide variety of major life topics and
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That's what it's all about taking the time to go through it
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Now what I'd like to give you is what I think are the five major pieces to the life puzzle
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Five major pieces to the life puzzle
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If we can study each of the pieces and then put it all together
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The chances of it running well are just a lot better
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Mr. Shove gave me a simple formula when I first met him and let me give it to you
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He said there's usually about a half dozen things makes 80 % of the difference.
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I Thought that was a good formula.
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I've applied that to a lot of things
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There's usually about a half dozen things makes 80 % of the difference
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There's about a half dozen wealth things about a half dozen health things
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That can give you the 80 % solution to the problem
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Then mr. Shoaf said be a student of those half dozen basic things
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Pretty good advice
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Success is not doing extraordinary things success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well
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So if you just learn to do it well key things well learn to speak well poor people can talk
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and rich people can talk
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Looks like rich people talk better
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It's just learning a skill with a high degree of of precision
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Learning to speak is called survival.
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Learning to speak well is called success.
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So we can speak well enough to survive or we can speak the extra well enough to succeed.
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So let me give you what I think are fundamental pieces to life and we'll take it from there.
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Here's the first one philosophy pretty well -known word on the
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university campus philosophy philosophy in very simple terms is simply what you know
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and what you know greatly affects how your life works out
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we might also add what you don't know greatly affects how your life works out
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The idea you miss could be the missing number in trying to put the numbers in the lock.
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So what you don't know will hurt you, to correct an old cliche.
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And to correct aspiring entrepreneurs, weigh everything before you do it.
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before you buy it before you try it make sure
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you weigh it everything you get ready to do you get to decide whether it's a major
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or a minor and you don't want to give minor things major time
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you don't want to give something insignificant significant amounts of your energy
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so we simply use the phrase way before you pay sophisticated people learn to weigh everything
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and what we all need is a good set of mental scales to weigh everything.
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What if you got information and your mental scales were off and insignificant things to you were significant?
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Wouldn't that be a major handicap the rest of your life?
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When you weighed something, important things weighed unimportant, we would call that a great handicap.
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So it's very important to weigh everything properly.
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And that's the reason for sermons and songs and lyrics and lectures and seminars and conversations and professors and teachers.
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It's one of the reasons why we converse with each other
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and we debate and we think about and we ponder
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and we perceive and we weigh
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and we try to find out where the values are
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because you don't want to proceed and give big chunks of your life to something that's insignificant.
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Okay, so we get in from big question informing your life, where are the values?
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What is important?
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What should weigh heavy on my mind and I should give it significant time and significant energy and significant money.
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So all of this stuff, this is our thinking process.
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Shove said to me, poor thinking habits keep most people poor.
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Not poor working habits.
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Most people work hard, but they don't think hard.
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They don't use their mind to really try to perceive where the values are so that they don't waste any time.
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It's easy to spend big chunks of your life on insignificant things unless you can weigh it better our mind
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so all of this stuff is called major
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it's one of the major pieces of the life puzzle what you think about knowledge how you weigh
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it the conclusions you come to the values you've perceived thinking
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if you really want to help somebody change their life
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you have to start changing their mind change their philosophy change
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how they think somebody says well just motivation that'll do
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and the answer is no motivation won't do it
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if a guy's an idiot then you motivate him
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you got a motivated idiot say no that's not what it takes now it's very easy to make errors in judgment
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errors in judgment i'm now the teaching people even out even after they're out of school university college,
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they should read at least one or two books a week.
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It's easy when you get out of school, right, and get a job to just sort of let that all slide,
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not keep up the learning process.
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But if you don't keep up the learning process, a lot of values become fuzzy if you don't keep trying to perceive what's important,
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what's not important, and then start spending major effort on minor things.
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So we have to keep learning.
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What if a guy spent his book money on donuts?
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Right?
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We would call him greatly deprived mentally.
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In 10 years, the guy's bought two tons of donuts and only two books, right?
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Mostly with pictures, right?
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And he wonders why his life isn't working well.
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Reason.
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After he got out of school, he didn't keep up the flow of ideas
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that can help to refine your business and help to refine your decisions and help you come to better conclusions.
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You've got to keep up the learning curve, even after you're out of school, to make sure that you're not making errors in judgment.
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The reason why most people wind up average at age 40
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instead of rich is simply an error in judgment about what to do with your money.
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What would you suggest a 15 -year -old start as a plan to do with their money
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so that by 40 they're rich instead of average.
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You got to have a good plan, right?
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If you start making errors early with your money, those errors can make your life mediocre instead of rich.
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You wind up with pennies instead of fortune, and you wind up with crumbs instead of a feast simply
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because early you made errors on what to do with your money.
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The guy says, well, it's only $10.
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So what does it matter what I do with it?
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And the answer is, that's when it really matters is when you don't have much.
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The guy says, oh, if I had a fortune, I'd really take good care of it, but I've only got a paycheck,
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so I don't know where it goes.
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We call those great errors in judgment.
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It's so important to make sure you've got a good plan when the amounts are small.
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But it's easy to make errors.
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It's easy not to know
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It's easy to miscalculate and if you miscalculate some things keep adding and adding and adding
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I got a good phrase for you life is accumulative
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Good phrase to know life is accumulative
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Our errors either accumulate into what we don't get
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Or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get
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Now the key is to correct the errors as early as possible
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Fortunately, Mr. Shove caught me at age 25, started asking me major questions.
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At age 25, he said, Mr. Owen, how long have you been working?
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And I said, I've been working six years.
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I started working when I was 19.
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Right, full -time job.
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He said, well, six years, how much money have you saved and invested in the last six years?
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I said, not any.
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He said who sold you on that plan?
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Wow six years is enough time now to check and see if you've got a good financial philosophy
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And the time to catch the errors is early early
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So mr. Sho started asking me those tough questions at age 25.
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How about your money?
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How about your resources?
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How about your investments?
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And you say well, I've got plenty of time to worry about that and be concerned about that later
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And the answer is probably not.
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Now's the time to fix it.
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Wherever you hear the good information, that's the time to start fixing it.
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So we're teaching kids now a good wealth philosophy.
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Starting at age 15 will make you wealthy by age 45 at the latest if you're a little slow.
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Start doing wise things with your resources.
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When would you suggest people should do wise things with their resources?
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Answer, as soon as they get the better information.
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Now, you can't do what you don't know.
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But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you.
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Now you can do more wise things
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Okay, but philosophy is where it all begins what you know
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Now to know wise things you simply have to study as you're doing keep up the reading keep up the
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conversations keep up the Listening to lectures keep going through the information keep Stashing it away taking the notes, right?
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There's no better way to adjust your philosophy than to have a continual flow of ideas.
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But that's the first piece of the life puzzle, our life works out.
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Now, it's how you feel about a variety of things.
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Let me give you that list.
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Number one, it's how you feel about the past.
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Now, when you're young, you haven't got that much past to feel about.
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But I'm sure you've had some ups and downs.
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You've had some wins and losses.
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You wouldn't have arrived here if you hadn't have done fairly well.
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And I'm sure everybody has also arrived here with some
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Already pretty tough things you've had to face and decisions you've had to make
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Who knows what a variety of stories are are here?
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I'm sure if we knew some of the stories we'd you know shut mine down listen to yours
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There's probably some fascinating stories here already some things you've been through
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So part of our attitude is based on how we feel about the past.
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Some people are still carrying the burdens of the past
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They're affected by some difficulties, some losses, whatever, and they're carrying it around like a burden.
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Instead of using the past as a school, they're using it as a threat to their life.
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So part of it is solving the attitude about the past, how you feel about it.
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Number two, it's how you feel about the future.
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Facing the future, very important key part of our life.
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Now there's two ways to face the future.
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Here they are one anticipation.
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That's one way to face the future anticipation.
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Here's the other way apprehension.
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Now most people face the future with apprehension primarily because they bought somebody else's view
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They don't have their own future well designed
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So in the absence of having your own future well designed
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you have a tendency to be persuaded to buy somebody else's future
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Here's what's going to happen.
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Here's what's going to happen
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Boy, it's easy to let your days be clouded by all of that
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So some days somewhere along the line you've got to start settling for sure how you feel about the future
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And how you feel about it greatly determines what you do
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If you don't feel good about the future by having goals set you take what we call uncertain steps
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It's difficult to be confident about the day if you don't have your future well designed
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So here's one of the keys to do about your future set goals write them down
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Design the future
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Where do you want to go?
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What do you want to do?
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What do you want to be?
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What do you want to see?
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What do you want to have?
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What do you want to share?
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Even if it all changes 12 months from now, the key is to start making a list now.
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The cities you want to visit, the people you'd like to meet, your health goals, your investment goals, all that stuff, start writing it,
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putting it in a journal somewhere.
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And let it all change as time unfolds.
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Something that you think is very important right now, two years from now, you'll say, that was kind of foolish.
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How come I thought that was so important, right?
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Because you'll grow beyond that.
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But right now it's important to get as clear a picture as you can of the future.
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Set your dreams, set your goals.
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Because it's important.
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How the day goes is greatly determined by your confidence about the future.
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Now here's another attitude.
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It's how you feel about each other.
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It's how you feel about society and the community and the country.
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It's very important.
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It's not that difficult to be a cynic
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And cynicism greatly influences how your life works out
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But it's also important to understand
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That if you want to do well, it takes all of us to help each of us
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Good phrase It takes all of us to help each of us do well
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You can't succeed by yourself
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It's hard to find a rich hermit
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You can't succeed by yourself you need a market you need a society
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We need each other's ideas.
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We need each other's collective ideas
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Collective participation in the marketplace society
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Okay So how we feel about each other very important
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Now here's the big one.
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It's how you feel about yourself
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How you feel about yourself
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Self -esteem, understanding your own value.
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Boy, if new discovery starts to unfold for you, that you've got the brains, you've got the talent, all you need is instruction,
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all you need is some coaching, all you need is some help, all you need is some advice, some experience.
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If you're headed down the wrong road, hopefully somebody's already been down that road where the bridge is out.
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And they come back saying, don't go this way anymore, the bridge is out.
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So we take somebody else's advice and we say, wow, I'm glad you came along.
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I'm heading down this road.
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So learning from other people's experiences, picking up all the ideas so that we can feel good about ourselves.
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You've got the talent, you've got the skill.
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That's what university is for, school is for, is to help guide all this available potential.
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And there isn't anybody here that hasn't got the potential to become wealthy and powerful and sophisticated and influential and live uniquely.
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That's all within all of your reach.
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Some people live unfortunate lives of tragedy and despair, but that's not here.
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You've become those few percentage points that have the unusual gift of association
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and awareness and exposure to the best that the country has to offer.
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And here you are at a well -known university with all the chances
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and all of the opportunities within your reach and with your brains
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and with your potential and your power and and your drive and your incentives no telling what
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Miracles you can go do and what unique things you can accomplish
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You'll look back on these days saying those were good days that
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Exposed me to ideas and philosophies and people and gave me chances and opportunities to come become somebody unique
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But everybody here's got the potential but you've got to feel that you've got to think well about yourself
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Now self -esteem primarily becomes from, comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value.
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Self -esteem comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value.
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We don't lack potential, but to bring value from potential, we need the disciplines.
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Now, one of the major things that makes us not feel good about ourselves is not engaging in the disciplines.
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If you keep letting yourself off the hook
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Or just ho -humming it and letting it all slide
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Then you don't feel good about yourself
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Best is the ant philosophy
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Right, to feel good about yourself, do your best
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Gather all you can during the summer
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We call that the ant philosophy
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Ants don't settle for half, they go for all
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All you possibly can, do the best you can
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It's the greatest lift of self -esteem is doing the best you can
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Okay, so attitude plays such an important part in the five pieces of the life puzzle
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Now what's next number three?
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First is philosophy second is attitude philosophy and attitude determines activity
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Activity is what you do
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Key phrase success is a doing you actually now have to do it
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It seems as though God has designed
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that the major part of the value of our life is left to our own mental genius.
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You've got to decide what you want to become.
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Then you simply have to go do it, engaging in the disciplines.
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Now, the activity part is so important.
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How hard should you work when you get ready to labor, when you get ready to try to be successful in the marketplace?
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How many days should you spend?
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How hard should you work?
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Well, let me give you an Old Testament phrase to consider.
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It says six days activity one day rest
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Now that's called a philosophy on activity
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Right, what should be the ratio of rest activity
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Old Testament suggests six one
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Now I know that goes back a long ways
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Some people said no six six ones old -fashioned five two is better
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Well, you got to take a look at 5 .2 and see if it's okay.
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You don't just want to buy somebody's philosophy without seeing if it leads to fortune and if it leads to unique things.
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Wonderful.
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It's probably good.
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But you have to check out if 5 .2 is okay.
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Would 4 .3 be better?
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I don't know.
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You got to check everything.
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I do know this.
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Good phrase.
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Don't rest too long.
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And the reason you can't rest too long is because we live in a push -up world.
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Key phrase, it's a push -shove world.
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We live in a world of conflict, and the conflict, at the higher levels, it's called the conflict between good and evil.
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That's one way to describe it.
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It's the conflict between health and sickness.
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Health is simply conquering the territory and defending it against the encroachment of illness.
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Guess where illness always seems to be?
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Testing the outer edges of your health plan.
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It's push of world.
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So you can't relax too much and you can't rest too long.
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If you rest too long, the weeds take the garden.
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And if you don't think so, we call you naive.
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I got a good point for you.
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Make rest a necessity, not an objective.
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The objective of life is not to rest.
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The objective of life is to accomplish, to growth, full growth, full accomplishment, test the outer limits of your abilities.
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That's what life is all about.
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See what all you can do.
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That's what life is all about.
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See what you can do with the seasons and the soil and the seed.
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See what you can do with your brain.
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See what you can do with your talent and your gifts and your skills.
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That's what life's all about.
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See what you can do.
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Now we need rest, but you must make rest a necessity not an objective.
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If you make it an objective you start falling into what we call the average syndrome.
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Right people who live mediocre lives are always looking forward to getting off.
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Successful people are always looking forward to getting on.
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Successful people don't want off.
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They want on.
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They want to get on with the job.
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They rest only enough to gather strength
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So consider that in your argument in your debate on how hard should you work?
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Let me give you another Bible philosophy.
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I'm My parents made sure I was a pretty good scholar by the time I was 18
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And I'm an amateur on the Bible.
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But here's another good philosophy
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Whatever your hands currently find to do do it with all your might
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Whatever you're doing, do it with all your might.
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We call that philosophy on activity.
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How hard should you work?
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As hard as you can in the time allotted to labor.
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In leadership management lectures we teach, when you work, work.
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When you play, play.
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Don't play at work.
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And don't work at play.
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Make best use of your time.
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When you're working, pour it on.
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And when you're playing have a good time, but don't play at work
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Okay So activity very important piece in this whole life puzzle in working
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So you've got to test
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How hard you can work
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Part of it is physical your own physical limitation.
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Some people can take 14 hours.
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No problem Some people ten stretches pretty much their physical limitation
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So everybody has to sort of decide how hard you can work how much time you can put in
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when you come to university, right?
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You got to sort of find out how much workload
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you can handle how many classes can you go through how much can you unravel?
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How many study hours do you need how much effort have you got when you're gonna run out of gas, right?
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And you need to replenish the supply so we all have to study our own activity habits
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But let me give you what I think is the best philosophy.
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It is simply do the best you can
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In activity, we call it doing your best.
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That's all we ask.
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Simply, your best.
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If you want to put together a championship team, one simple requirement for all those who participate, just do your best.
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If everybody does their best, whatever that brings us to, number one, number two, wherever we arrive
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when the final count is made is okay if we all know when it's over we did our best.
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A man asked me one time, he said, I'm making about $50 ,000 a year.
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Isn't that enough?
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What would you tell somebody?
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A businessman said to me, he said, my kids aren't starving.
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And he said, I got my bills paid.
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And he said, we're doing pretty good.
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And I'm making about $50 ,000 a year.
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Isn't that enough?
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He asked me, what do you suppose I told him?
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I said, yes, it's enough if it's the best you can do.
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We don't call an amount enough.
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We call your best enough.
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I said, if you're capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50 ,000 a year, we call you loser.
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And we don't call you loser because of the difference between 50 ,000 and a half million,
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we call you loser because you're not doing your best.
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If you do your best and you make 10 ,000 a year, that's enough.
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If you do your best and you make a million dollars a year, that's enough.
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Enough is not the difference between 10 ,000 and a million.
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Enough is simply doing the best you can.
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So that's the key to the good life.
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When the day is finished, if you say, did I do my best?
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And if I'm not doing my best, why not?
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Do I have I got some errors in my philosophy that says hey half efforts?
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Okay, just slide by ho -hum it cross your fingers and everything will work out
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Hopefully say no, I don't want to take those kind of chances.
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I don't want to drift
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Okay, so activity
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Just put a big question mark on activity and say here's a major piece of life to keep checking
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Make sure I'm doing my best.
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That's all I require my best a
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A group of psychiatrists asked me to come and lecture for them in Los Angeles one time,
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which I thought was interesting since I only went to one year of college.
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And then in the middle of my lecture, I had the audacity to say,
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ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what I think most messes with the mind.
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They said, what do you think most messes with the mind?
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I said, I think what most messes with the mind is simply doing less than you can.
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It sets up all kinds of psychic problems, doing less than you can.
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Guess when you really feel good about yourself?
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When you've done the best you can.
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You don't even have to win the full prize if you do the best you can.
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We call that the ultimate winning, doing the best you can.
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Wow, there's nothing like the soaring self -confidence that comes from putting out what we call full effort.
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In whatever you do, it's called full effort.
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Okay. So, activity.
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Now, activity leads to what?
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Number four, philosophy, activity, attitude leads to number four, results.
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And that's what life is all about, putting the first three together,
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good philosophy, attitude, high activity to get the ultimate called results.
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I got a good phrase for you, results is the name of the game.
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Productivity.
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Now, the challenge of life is a very simple phrase.
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Let me give it to you.
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I think you'll find it interesting to at least ponder.
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The challenge of life is to make measurable progress in reasonable time.
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Measurable progress in reasonable time.
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First we don't want to be unreasonable with time
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If you and I agree to do something five minutes later, I'm asking you how are you doing you say I haven't left the building yet
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You can't ask in five minutes five minutes is too soon.
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That's unreasonable Now if I don't ask you for five years
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We call that too late
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You can't wait five years and you can't go five minutes
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Right you we all have to learn what is reasonable time
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to expect somebody to make progress to grow to change to develop
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So all of us have to learn, especially if you're going to become leaders, entrepreneurs, if you're going to have management responsibilities and work with people,
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you've got to understand what is reasonable time.
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We don't want to be unreasonable with time.
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But here's what else we expect.
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Measurable progress in reasonable time.
458
How many years should the child spend in fourth grade?
459
Approximately. About one.
460
You say, well, if they're nice kids, would you give them three or four?
461
You say, no, you can't spend four years in fourth grade.
462
It's unacceptable.
463
We put on the family pressure.
464
We put on peer pressure, right?
465
We put on all kinds of pressure.
466
You can't spend four years in fourth grade.
467
Now wouldn't that be interesting if we applied the same kind of social pressure all of our lives?
468
What would be acceptable to society for wise investments to have been made by age 30?
469
So that you can really properly take care of yourself and your family.
470
Somehow we've missed those standards, right?
471
Shouldn't it be popular to be wealthy by age 40?
472
And shouldn't we look at somebody who by age 45 is not at least financially independent saying, where have you been?
473
Tibet?
474
Bangladesh you probably have spent.
475
You mean you've been here all this time?
476
Right?
477
Shouldn't we make it a bit unacceptable not to be well off in what we call reasonable time?
478
But what if a guy spent his potential fortune on non -essentials from age 15 to age 45?
479
Shouldn't we call that unacceptable?
480
Shouldn't teenagers ask their parents, how come we're not rich?
481
We live in a rich country.
482
This is America.
483
Aren't those good questions?
484
How about the wisdom of a good plan versus a poor plan?
485
What if a man was a farmer and he ate his seed corn?
486
Instead of planting it, he ate it.
487
Wouldn't we make arrangements to go get his children?
488
And say, the kids aren't safe.
489
The man's insane.
490
He eats his seed corn.
491
He doesn't plant it.
492
Wow.
493
I just offer that as kind of an interesting question if we make such pressure demands for fourth grade,
494
why shouldn't we make those same pressure demands for the rest of life?
495
Interesting question, right?
496
Good debatable question.
497
Now, part of it is we simply, society eases back on us as far as ongoing demand of results.
498
But here's what I'd ask you to do.
499
Make the demands on yourself.
500
I'm asking you not to let yourself off the hook.
501
Society will let you get by with far less than you want to be.
502
When you get out of university, how many books will the community demand that you read every month?
503
Approximately. About none.
504
So if you're going to do the extra reading, guess what?
505
You got to develop that philosophy and put that pressure on yourself
506
But what I'm asking you to do is take a good look at results
507
now another reason why we look at results results at age 25
508
Results at age 30 on a wide variety of things health and wealth and culture and and sophistication and lifestyle and uniqueness
509
We keep checking all those results.
510
Here's why to see if there's any errors in activity
511
Guess how easy it is to make errors in activity.
512
It's easy.
513
We teach in our leadership series, don't mistake movement for achievement.
514
Boy, sometimes it's easy to be faked out by being busy.
515
Guy's busy 10 hours a day, but he's going in figure eights.
516
The guy's not making progress.
517
He's stalled, but he's busy.
518
And he thinks being busy is going to do it.
519
Say, no, you got to be busy doing the right things.
520
So maybe you need activity fixed.
521
Maybe you need attitude fixed. Who knows?
522
The guy who says, since they don't pay well, I come late and leave early.
523
We say, John, that's going to affect you all your life.
524
And you've probably got the results to show it.
525
Or maybe we need a correction of philosophy.
526
That's why we check results.
527
Now, here's the last piece in the life puzzle.
528
It's called lifestyle.
529
Lifestyle is simply how you choose to live.
530
We call lifestyle the genius of living well.
531
Now, here's what's exciting about lifestyle.
532
As a subject of one of the major pieces of the life puzzle, all of us can choose,
533
especially in this country, all of us can choose how we wish to live.
534
Guess what you can get from your money?
535
Joy? or animosity.
536
However you wish to live.
537
A father takes a $10 bill and wads it up and throws it at his son and says,
538
if you need the darn stuff that bad, take it.
539
We call it money without style.
540
The father's got the money, but he doesn't have the style.
541
He studied economics, but he didn't study happiness.
542
So let me give you the phrase happiness is an art not an accident
543
Some people have figured out things economically, but they haven't figured out lifestyle to live well
544
Culture is a study
545
It's not an amount somebody says if you have an amount of money, you'll be cultured and answers no cultured is a study cultured
546
Culture is a refinement of the mind
547
to be cultured you must study culture and practice culture money doesn't solve the culture challenge
548
money doesn't solve the happiness challenge to be happy you got to study and practice happiness
549
and mr shove taught me all the simple ways to get joy from substance a sophisticated gentleman knows
550
that a rose on time is more valuable than a thousand dollar gift too late it's not the amount that counts.
551
It's the genius that counts.
552
It's the ideas that count.
553
So here's what I'm challenging you to do.
554
How to be happy with what you've got while you pursue what you want.
555
And I'll give you time to make a note of that phrase because I think it's so important to wrap it up.
556
How to be happy with what you've got while you pursue what you want.
557
So I would challenge you in the last piece of the life puzzle, find ways to live uniquely.
558
Now, if you look at your life on all these five pieces,
559
this is why I'm asking you to just go back through and review these notes.
560
How am I doing on philosophy?
561
Are there some things I don't know?
562
Am I making some errors in judgment that's going to bring me to
563
No good end right three years from now five years from now
564
Key phrase ten years from now you will arrive the question is where?
565
Good question where and the follow -up is now's the time to fix the next ten years
566
now is the time to fix the next ten years and
567
hopefully with the discussion of these five subjects we've given you some viewpoints, at least from my experience.
568
And hopefully I've done a little coaching here today
569
and you can take these subjects and debate them
570
and talk about them and think about them and they'll help you with life in the future.
571
Thank you for your attention.
572
I appreciate you inviting me to come by.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Do the Best You Can”. Deze video bevat 572 zinnen en 6093 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 38:14. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 89% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| phrase zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | uitspraak |
| weigh werkwoord | /weɪ/ | wegen |
| puzzle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpʌzəl/ | mysterie, raadsel |
| lecture zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ | lezing, college |
| lifestyle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ | levensstijl |
| judgment zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ | oordeel |
| objective zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/ | object |
| discipline zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | discipline, (zelf)beheersing |
| shave werkwoord | /ˈʃeɪ̯v/ | scheren, zich scheren |
| happiness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | blijheid, blijdschap |
| fortune zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɔːtjuːn/ | lot, noodlot |
| esteem werkwoord | /ɪˈstiːm/ | achten, waarderen |
| perceive werkwoord | /pɚˈsiv/ | waarnemen |
| insignificant bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/ | insignificant, onbeduidend |
| solve werkwoord | /sɒlv/ | oplossen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| keep up werkwoord | bijblijven | |
| work out werkwoord | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | uitrekenen |
| go back werkwoord | teruggaan | |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen | |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken | |
| look forward to werkwoord | uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op | |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken | |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- How many of you this is the first time you've seen me?
- You mean you've been here all this time?
- Shouldn't we call that unacceptable?
- Wouldn't we make arrangements to go get his children?
- Are there some things I don't know?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | I've been coming · have you been working · I've been working |
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if I had a fortune, I'd really · if they're nice kids, would you |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | you've seen · have been · life's been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be invited · being invited · is called |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 183 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, you've, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, ninth /naɪnθ/, cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, unreasonable /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, objective /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: greatly /ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, ongoing /ɒnˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als phrase, weigh, puzzle.
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