Shadowing Practice: Simon Sinek on Avoiding Burnout and the Modern Work-Life Balance - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The question is how do we take care of the health of our people
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so we can continue to perform over the long term?
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Two lumberjacks every morning, they go to work at the same time.
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Every day they end work at the same time.
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And every day one of the lumberjacks disappears in the middle of the day for about an hour.
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And every day the lumberjack
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that disappears for about an hour in the middle of the day chops more wood than the other lumberjack.
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This goes on for months.
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And then finally the guy who works all day, he stops.
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He says, I have to ask you, every day we start at the same time.
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Every day we stop at the same time.
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Every day you go away for about an hour in the middle of the day, and every day you chop more wood than me.
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Where do you go away for that hour?
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And the other lumberjack looks up and goes, Oh, I go home and sharpen my act.
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And I think it's one thing to enforce people taking vacation, but I think we don't even do a good job of that.
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There's a huge difference between taking a vacation and telecommuting from the beach.
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And I think where we get it wrong is where we allow people to dial in in the morning
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and miss breakfast with their family when they're on vacation.
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or we expect them to be on the call when they're sitting by the pool.
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That's not a vacation.
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That's telecommuting from just a foreign place.
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And so I think work-life balance is becoming a more complicated thing to understand
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and achieve because of this world we live in where now distributed workforces are now a thing where you can work remotely.
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And how and when people work and even what the definition of a full-time job is, is all changing.
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and I've been forced to challenge my own beliefs.
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So I used to be very, very strict that once you leave the office at the end of the day, I don't want to hear from you,
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and don't you dare send me an email on the weekend because you should be with your family.
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There was always going to be exceptions and rare circumstances, but on balance, I was pretty dogmatic about it.
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And I came across some research recently.
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There's a company called Water Cooler, which I help, that tracks sort of everybody's work It's kind of amazing stuff they do.
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And what they discovered is that people who never engage on weekends
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or evenings actually have high propensities to quit and very low engagement scores.
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People who work too much at nights and on weekends burn out very quickly.
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But there's this little sweet spot where people who want to work the occasional night, do a little bit of work on the occasional weekend,
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actually have the best performing and actually the happiest employees, the reason they work on the occasional night and weekend is because they care.
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And so it really flew in the face of what I used to believe.
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So now I tend to sort of take a step back and I just want to make sure people aren't overdoing it.
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But vacation is different.
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I expect people to disconnect when they're on vacation because I need them to sharpen their acts.
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I also expect people to speak out if they need a break.
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And the way to do that is for me to lead the way.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Simon Sinek on Avoiding Burnout and the Modern Work-Life Balance”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: vacation, lumberjack, weekend, hour, occasional. Deze video bevat 41 zinnen en 594 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:53. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 205 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| lumberjack zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/ | houthakker |
| occasional bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/ | toevallig, nu en dan |
| sharpen werkwoord | /ˈʃɑɹpən/ | scherpen, slijpen |
| telecommuting zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/ | telewerk |
| chop werkwoord | /t͡ʃɑp/ | hakken |
| disappear werkwoord | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verdwijnen, verzwinden |
| dogmatic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/ | dogmatisch |
| overdo werkwoord | /ˌoʊvɚˈdu/ | overdrijven |
| propensity zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/ | neiging, beheptheid |
| circumstance zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | omstandigheid |
| distribute werkwoord | /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/ | verdelen |
| workforce zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɝk.foɹs/ | werkkracht |
| enforce werkwoord | /ɪnˈfoɹs/ | handhaven |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come across werkwoord | overkomen | |
| look up werkwoord | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | opkijken |
| speak out werkwoord | zich uitspreken |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
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| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to be · used to believe |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | guy who works · people who never · People who work |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 8 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, they're, aren't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/, telecommuting /ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/, propensity /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: lumberjack /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/, dogmatic /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/
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 lumberjack, occasional, sharpen.
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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.