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What is the ultimate aim of our efforts?
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We typically assume that the ultimate aim of all our efforts is to have a happy life.
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And judged on this basis, many of us have to admit, in the silence of our minds, that we're not really doing very well.
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There's so much that every year, and perhaps almost every day, comes along to spoil our ambitions.
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There's a power struggle at the office, a problem in our families, our friends feel superficial or disengaged,
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our anxieties don't abate, and our relationships are scratchy or distant.
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Our difficulties generate a basic layer of misery, but then a secondary layer is swiftly added to it,
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caused by an underlying sense that our unhappiness represents a fundamental violation of life's true purpose.
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Not only Are we unhappy?
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We are unhappy that we are unhappy, in the light of our tightly held belief in the possibility of a state of enduring satisfaction.
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We are both sad and crushed
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that we have failed at the single most important goal open to all sane and ambitious humans.
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It is in such moments of knotted misery that we may gain some relief from reframing our situation.
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While we may not be able to overcome our burdens themselves, it does lie in our power to alter what these burdens have to mean to us.
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We may not have to take them as proof of our stupidity or ill adjustment.
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They can be signs that we're destined to have interesting lives rather than calm ones.
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Lives marked by a high degree of exploration, psychological understanding and striving rather than settled certainty and equilibrium.
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we lack in terms of contentment, we may make up for in terms of insight and experience.
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We – the often troubled ones, the typically anxious ones, the ones who frequently reach the end of a day as exhausted
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and shaken as if we'd crossed mountains – we might judge our complicated situations with a new, rueful kind of pride.
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We belong to a distinctive and in its way estimable cohort.
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We're always going to find a cloud on our horizons.
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We'll never spend more than half an hour before being visited by some kind of distemper.
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We're never going to accept things as they are or make totally wise choices around love or work.
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This doesn't perhaps have to be the measure of everything.
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We don't need to be constantly offended by our agitations.
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Our day-to-day troubles don't have to be the yardstick by which we judge the value of our lives.
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Given where we've come from and how we're constituted, we were never going to be happy in any obvious way.
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But perhaps a good life can in the end be compatible with being fairly perturbed most days of the week.
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Perhaps it doesn't matter that a relationship has failed once more.
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Perhaps it isn't appalling that our business doesn't deliver us the returns we might have had in our old job.
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We've stretched ourselves, we've learned to raise our voices, we've developed courage.
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We don't have to see marks of grief and trouble as some kind of a violation of a pristine contract,
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but as the logical and immovable consequences of our stubborn and subtle natures interacting with the complexities of existence.
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sometimes frightened into reorienting our lives by being asked to contemplate
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how we might feel about them from the vantage point of our deathbeds.
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But if on this bed we were to look back at a roller coaster of emotions
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and events we might have got married for the fifth time recently, we might smile to ourselves and, to the beeping of the heart monitor beside us,
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say, with wisdom and compassion, it wasn't a calm life for sure, it wasn't for the most part even a happy one,
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but heaven knows it was a truly and properly interesting one.
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And with this as our measure, we might meet our end with all the satisfaction and self-acceptance we could hope for.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C2 is gebaseerd op de video “Life is Not About Being Happy”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: perhaps, lives, unhappy. Deze video bevat 41 zinnen en 671 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:13. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| misery zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹi/ | ellende |
| agitation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ | opwinding, agitatie |
| appalling bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /əˈpɔːlɪŋ/ | ontzettend |
| contemplate werkwoord | /ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/ | beschouwen, contempleren |
| deathbed zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/ | sterfbed, doodsbed |
| frighten werkwoord | /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ | bang maken, beangstigen |
| perturb werkwoord | /pəɹˈtɜɹb/ | verstoren |
| pristine bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈprɪˌstin/ | ongerept, oorspronkelijk |
| rueful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹuːfl̩/ | meelijwekkend |
| unhappiness zelfstandig naamwoord | ongelukkigheid | |
| vantage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/ | bevoorrechte positie |
| offend werkwoord | /əˈfɛnd/ | kwetsen, beledigen |
| equilibrium zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/ | evenwicht |
| stupidity zelfstandig naamwoord | /stuˈpɪdɪti/ | stomheid, domheid |
| strive werkwoord | /ˈstɹaɪv/ | streven |
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 have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have failed · we've come · has failed |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being visited · being asked |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals we're, don't, we've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, superficial /ˌsupɚˈfɪʃəl/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, estimable /ˈɛstɪməbəl/, immovable /ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l/, superficial /ˌsupɚˈfɪʃəl/, equilibrium /ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/, disengage /ˌdɪsɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, perturb /pəɹˈtɜɹb/, vantage /ˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, offend /əˈfɛnd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: unhappy /ʌnˈhæpi/, agitation /ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, scratchy /ˈskɹæt͡ʃi/, vantage /ˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: disengage /ˌdɪsɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, grief /ɡɹiːf/
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 misery, agitation, appalling.
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