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Principles for Success, an ultra mini-series adventure in 30 minutes and in 8 episodes.
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Episode 1, The Call to Adventure.
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Before we begin, let me just establish the fact that I don't know much relative to what I need to know.
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Whatever success I've had in life has more to do with
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my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know.
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That I should be telling other people what to do sounds kind of presumptuous to me.
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But I'm going to do it because I believe that the principles
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that have made me successful could help others achieve their own goals.
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I'm now at a stage in my own life in
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which it is much more important to me to pass along
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what I've learned about how to be successful than to seek more success for myself.
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What you choose to do with these principles is up to you.
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You have to be an independent thinker because only you can develop your own principles based on your own values.
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This brings me to my first and most fundamental principle,
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which is that you need to think for yourself about what is true.
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So let's get started.
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Early on I discovered I needed principles.
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Principles are smart ways for handling things that happen over and over again in similar situations.
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There are principles for everything from skiing to parenting to cooking and so on
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I'm going to share some of my most important overarching life principles
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that influence how we approach everything that we do I didn't start out with principles.
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I acquired them over a lifetime of experiences Mostly from making mistakes and reflecting on them My life principles are simple,
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but they're not complete.
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I still struggle to make the best decisions,
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and I still make mistakes and learn new principles all the time.
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This is the reality.
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At the beginning, I needed to escape the conventions that surrounded me,
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which meant that I needed to think for myself.
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Unless you want to have a life that is directed by others,
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you need to decide for yourself what to do.
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and you need to have the courage to do it.
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But I didn't know that at first.
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I only learned that from going on my adventure.
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Looking back on my own journey,
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I now see that time is like a river
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that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions.
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We can't stop our movement down this river,
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and we can't avoid the encounters.
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We can only approach them in the best possible way.
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In your lifetime, you will face millions of decisions.
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The quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.
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Over the course of my lifetime,
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the most valuable things I've learned were the results of mistakes I reflected on to help form principles
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so I wouldn't make the same mistakes again.
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These principles took me from being a very ordinary middle-class kid
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from Long Island to becoming very successful as judged by conventional measures.
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They also gave me the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that I value even more than these conventional successes.
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People often ask me how I did it.
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I can assure you it wasn't because of my uniqueness as a person.
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It was the result of a unique approach to life I believe almost anybody can adopt.
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It starts with embracing reality and dealing with it.
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In episode 2, I'll explain what that means.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “Principles for Success: "The Call to Adventure"”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: principle, mistakes, decisions, lifetime, adventure. Deze video bevat 53 zinnen en 583 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:45. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 155 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| principle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | principe, beginsel |
| adventure zelfstandig naamwoord | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | avontuur |
| lifetime zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | mensenleven, levensduur |
| reflect werkwoord | /ɹɪˈflɛkt/ | weerkaatsen |
| encounter werkwoord | /ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/ | ontmoeten, stuiten op |
| conventional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kənˈvɛnʃənl̩/ | conventioneel |
| meaningful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | zinvol |
| relative zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ | familielid, bloedverwant |
| establish werkwoord | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ | oprichten, stichten |
| ordinary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | gewoon, alledaags |
| discover werkwoord | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | ontdekken |
| fundamental bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/ | fundamenteel |
| courage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | moed, dapperheid |
| adopt werkwoord | /əˈdɑpt/ | adopteren, aannemen |
| embrace werkwoord | /ɛmˈbɹes/ | omarmen, omhelzen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I've, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: conventional /kənˈvɛnʃənl̩/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, overarching /ˌoʊvəɹˈɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/
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 principle, adventure, lifetime.
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.