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There are two types of people in the world.
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Those who wake up in the morning feeling like this, and those who wake up in the morning feeling like this.
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We know which one we are, but the question is, what's the difference?
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Carl Jung, a very famous psychiatrist,
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said at the end of his career that over one -third of the patients he's seen actually suffered from no clinical neurosis,
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but rather from a want of meaning or purpose in their lives.
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Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, said, as soon as one of his fellow inmates lost their purpose,
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they'd be dead within a day or two.
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purpose makes us whole purpose gives us life purpose is what gets us out of bed in the morning
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and without it we're drifters drifting through life with no direction no destination
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and no end in sight and life is dull mundane monotonous and meaningless Sheen called this the anxiety of life.
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Now some of us will say just get through school, get a good job, follow your dreams, get married, raise a family,
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and make a lot of money.
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That's your purpose.
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And these are all good things that are part of purpose but can't be purpose purpose because first of all,
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what if these things don't work out for me?
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Then what?
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And second, what if all these things work out for me?
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Then what?
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Others will just try to avoid the whole thing and convince ourselves that there's no such thing as purpose.
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And we'll try to replace the want of purpose with things like pleasures, experiences, and excessiveness.
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But you know as well as I do, this gets old real fast, and the older we get,
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the louder those questions become. So what is it?
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What's my purpose?
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And how do I break out of this anxiety of life?
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Well, Sheen offers two solutions.
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The first is this go out and help someone.
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Today, help my neighbor.
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Who's my neighbor?
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Anyone near me who's suffering.
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The poor, the lonely, the sick, the stressed out, the sad, the broken, the beaten down, the depressed, the tired, the hungry,
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the addicted, the lost, the hurting.
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Basically, we're all the neighbor.
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Because when we're living in this anxiety of life, we're living totally for ourselves, trapped in all the junk inside our own heads.
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and the quickest way out.
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And the second thing is this. Be open.
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Like our phones receive all kinds of signals from God knows where, we have built -in antennas able to receive infinite signals from outside.
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We call these.
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But they've long been disabled and atrophy, and we can't get a signal anyway because we're surrounded by so much.
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Enable it.
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And be open to receive some sort of encounter from God.
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And it doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, or how far away you think you may be.
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These signals are coming down on all of us, even as we speak, like rain.
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Just be open.
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Now some of us may be thinking, alright that first one makes sense, but why do I need that second one?
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The whole God thing makes me a little uncomfortable.
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Because if the first one is this, the second is this.
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If the first is this, the second is this.
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If the first one is this, the second is this.
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Because the first is, go out and love my neighbor.
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and the second is opening up a permanent connection with pure love itself
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that is purpose and this purpose is like the mother of all purposes
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and takes all those other purposes into her arms and lifts them all up
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purpose is not something we rationalize or intellectualize or figure out by just thinking about it really really hard
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It's something we do.
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And when we do, we don't find purpose.
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Purpose finds us.
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I'm going to go ahead and get it.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “How to find purpose and meaning (when we get a little lost)”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: purpose, neighbor, signal, anxiety, receive. Deze video bevat 58 zinnen en 662 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:54. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 112 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 89% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen. 10 van de 58 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| neighbour zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈneɪbɚ/ | buur, buurman |
| anxiety zelfstandig naamwoord | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | bezorgdheid, ongerustheid |
| suffer werkwoord | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | lijden |
| psychiatrist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/ | psychiater |
| hungry bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | hongerig, honger hebben |
| trap zelfstandig naamwoord | /tɹæp/ | val |
| enable werkwoord | /ɪˈneɪ.bəl/ | inschakelen, in staat stellen |
| convince werkwoord | /kənˈvɪns/ | overtuigen |
| encounter werkwoord | /ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/ | ontmoeten, stuiten op |
| lonely bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈloʊnli/ | eenzaam, alleen |
| destination zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ | bestemming |
| uncomfortable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | ongemakkelijk |
| infinite bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/ | oneindig, eindeloos |
| depressed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈpɹɛst/ | depressief |
| junk zelfstandig naamwoord | /d͡ʒʌŋk/ | rommel, rotzooi |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Anyone near me who's suffering.
- Basically, we're all the neighbor.
- I'm going to go ahead and get it.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, can't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, psychiatrist /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, intellectualize /ɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃuəlaɪz/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, intellectualize /ɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃuəlaɪz/, rationalize /ˈɹæʃənəlaɪz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, trap /tɹæp/, antenna /ænˈtɛn.ə/, addict /ˈæd.ɪkt/, atrophy /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als neighbour, anxiety, suffer.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.