Shadowing Practice: Sundar Pichai: Say Yes to Hard Things - Learn English Speaking with Video
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President Levin, Provost Martinus, trustees, senior class presidents, thank you for the invitation to address you today.
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And to the distinguished class of 2026, congratulations.
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I must warn you all, this is only the second commencement speech I've ever given.
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The first was literally in my backyard.
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It was the spring of 2020, right in the middle of COVID and lockdowns.
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We were filming a YouTube commencement for the graduates who couldn't have their own celebrations like this one.
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When I look back on it, I see a time of great anxiety.
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I see the empty space where there should have been an audience.
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I see the haircut I gave myself right before filming.
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In fact, I really wish I could unsee it.
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Today, what I see in front of me is how graduation should be.
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Graduates celebrating together and with the people you love who have supported you on your journey.
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Your parents, relatives, friends, professors, and everyone who helped you reach this milestone.
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Let's give them another round of applause.
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They deserve it.
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I know not everyone you care about could be here.
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Many of you came from other parts of the country and the world as I had.
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And it's not always possible for families to travel.
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In fact, this is the first time my mom and dad are attending a graduation ceremony I'm a part of.
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So let me say a special thanks to them and to my entire family here with me.
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I know today is about giving you all advice, but people have also been giving me a lot of advice on what to say.
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Actually, it's been the same advice, and it's about what not to say.
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People thought it would be really difficult for me.
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It's the last two letters of my last name after all.
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In all honesty, the topic is truly immaterial to what I want to share with you.
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The most timeless advice I've learned is technology agnostic.
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It's about you, the life you want to build for yourself, and the choices that help you pursue that life.
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Some of you know what you're pursuing already.
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Congratulations.
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Enjoy closing down the Rosen crown now.
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It gets tougher with the day job.
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Many of you may have absolutely no clue.
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That's okay, too.
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I remember feeling uncertain on graduation day.
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the sense that life was a series of really big moments and the pressure I felt to get them all exactly right.
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This is especially true for a group of high achievers who have sweated every grade,
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every paper, every exam, who have focused on having the right mix of activities, athletics, internships, and now your first jobs.
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I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
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While these things matter in the moment, they are much less consequential than you might think.
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You could have failed that biology test, skipped a class, never learned to play the tuba, and you'd still probably be here today.
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Let me tell a story of how I started to learn this for myself.
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When I was a student here, I had a classmate named Pat.
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He was from Long Beach, had an earring in one year, which I thought was really edgy at the time, and a white two-door Honda Prelude convertible.
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So one Wednesday morning in January, my first winter quarter, we were on our way to class.
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He was like, do you want to go to Vegas instead?
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I'd never skipped a class.
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I'd never definitely taken a road trip before.
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In fact, this is the first time my parents are hearing of it.
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And yet I said, sure.
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So we went back to our dorm rooms, grabbed some things and set off.
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You have to cut through the mountains to get there.
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As we drove through them, it started to snow.
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I'd never seen snow before.
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I stuck my hand out to grab it.
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I couldn't believe the softness of the flurries.
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Pat stopped the car so I could get out.
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It was really beautiful, a moment I'll never forget.
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Nine hours from when we set out, we arrived in Vegas with the night lights on the horizon.
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I didn't know what to think.
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Pat taught me how to play blackjack.
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I started with $5 and did manage to win about 15 more and was like I'm out.
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We didn't have enough money to stay long, so the next day we started the drive back.
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No one seemed to notice that we had missed class.
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For the first time, I realized the world won't end if I relaxed a little.
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You're going to face a lot of moments in your life.
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Only a few of them are really important and you need to get them right.
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picking a partner, choosing whether to start a family, a bigger career pivot.
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Those decisions require time and intention.
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However, you will face many more moments in your life that only seem really big.
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Thousands of them, in fact.
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And very few of them are make or break.
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Your first job out of college, the city you move to next, whether to take that road trip
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while those moments add texture to your journey they rarely determine the course of your life but
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if you're able to filter the signal through the noise you
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can nudge your life in these moments into having the impact you want
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so today i want to share three simple filters i've applied to my own life three filters
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that have helped me get more moments right than wrong and took some of the pressure off.
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First, choose optimism.
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This might not ring true to you at this moment.
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The world is going through a lot.
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Global conflicts, economic anxiety, a rewiring of technology, information overload, all at a fast pace.
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It's easy to look at the news of the day and think that we are living in uniquely challenging times.
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For me, it's helpful to remember that each generation has faced hardship in their own way.
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We don't get to choose the world we graduate into, but we do get to choose how we frame our circumstances.
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This was something my parents instilled in me at a young age.
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I grew up in the vibrant city of Chennai, India.
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It was a comfortable life for the most part, but in those early years, we had some challenges.
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We worried about severe drought and whether the water trucks would arrive in time.
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And for us, technology came slowly.
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We had to wait years to get a telephone, a TV, a refrigerator.
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Each changed our lives in meaningful ways.
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My parents never let the constraints limit my imagination of what was possible.
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It's the reason I even let myself dream I could one day work in a faraway place called Silicon Valley.
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When the call from Stanford came, my father spent the equivalent of a year's salary to buy my ticket.
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It was my first time on a plane.
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When I landed in California, it wasn't exactly as I'd imagined.
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I remember that first drive down 280 coming from the airport with my host family.
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If you're not from here, California is advertised as being really lush and green.
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But when I looked out the window, it was more brown.
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I guess I said this out loud.
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I'm not sure why.
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My host, Mrs. Jane Earl, gently corrected me.
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We prefer to call it golden, she said.
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And that's exactly what I mean by choosing optimism.
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It's about reframing for the positive.
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Where I saw brown, she saw golden.
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This slight change of perspective had a huge ripple effect on how I thought about the world around me.
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Lush forestry wasn't all that was misadvertised if I'm being honest.
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The ocean looks warm and inviting on the brochure.
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A Stanford professor even emailed me before I accepted and used the beautiful beaches as a selling point.
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So the first time I went to the beach in Santa Cruz, I ran fully into the water.
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It was not warm.
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I've since learned that the Atlantic can be warmer, which by the way is the only reason Stanford joining the ACC makes any sense at all.
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Despite the brown hills and the cold ocean, it seemed like almost everyone I encountered had a generally positive outlook on life.
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Maybe it's because you can wear shorts all year, I don't know.
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I found myself adopting this California optimism, and it helped me navigate one of my bigger pivots during my time at Stanford.
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I came here fully intending to get my PhD and to move into academics.
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Life had other plans and I needed to get a job sooner.
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So I left my doctorate program and Stanford was generous to offer me the chance to fulfill the requirements for a master's.
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I could have seen it as the end of a dream, but thanks to Mrs. Earl, I was able to see that particular Brown Hill as golden.
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In that moment, I chose optimism.
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The second filter is to gravitate towards working on hard things.
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I'd love to tell you I was an immediate success after leaving Stanford.
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I wasn't.
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a decade later, I felt like I wasn't on the right path and took me a while to find my footing.
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Until I applied to Google, I had my final interview there in 2004.
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It was April Fool's Day and the day Gmail launched.
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So when my interviewer asked me about it, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or a real product.
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That's because at the time, one gigabyte of free storage for everyone felt super ambitious and almost impossible.
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A couple years into the job, I got my chance to work on a seemingly impossible problem too.
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It was around this time that the internet was moving into a new phase.
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The web was evolving from simple web pages to rich applications.
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There was a group of us that felt we could reimagine the browser to be much better and faster, and we had an early prototype that we thought was pretty good.
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Internally, there was a consensus that building a browser would be incredibly difficult, requiring hundreds of engineers.
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We had a group of about 10.
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The consensus was right.
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It was going to be really hard.
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In some ways, we were naive, and it's good to be a bit irrational when you approach new things.
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And in 2008, we launched what we thought was a great browser.
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We had 8 million users in the first 24 hours, and the reviews were really positive, and then user growth stagnated.
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After a year, we had around 2% share.
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I remember Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, made fun of Chrome in an interview and called it a rounding error.
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It could have been demoralizing, but with that California optimism, I told the team that the fact he went out of his way to dismiss us meant we were doing something right.
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We kept going, setting highly aggressive stretch goals to keep the team pushing.
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We rapidly iterated, shipping the browser every six weeks, while others shipped one maybe every six months to a year.
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Success began to follow.
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Working on hard things has taught me a lot.
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It typically attracts other great and optimistic people.
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And even if you miss meeting the high goals you set, you will still achieve something great.
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So when you have the choice to work on something hard, say yes.
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and the third filter I use when all else is equal, do the thing that excites you.
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For me, there has always been access to technology.
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The more access my family had, the better our lives got.
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I didn't have much access to a computer until I came to Stanford.
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So you can imagine my surprise when I walked into Sweet All
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and saw rows and rows of computers that I could use anytime I wanted.
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It was 1993 and the internet was being built literally all around me.
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I saw it as a fundamental enabler of human progress.
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The idea that I could be a part of bringing it to as many people as possible was exciting.
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It's why I took the offer at Google, why I jumped at the chance to work on projects like Chromebooks and Android later on.
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Several years ago, I remember meeting a group of women in rural India using Android smartphones for the first time
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to learn new traits, to speak with loved ones far away.
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And I remember visiting a classroom in Pittsburgh and seeing students from different backgrounds learning through the products I helped to build.
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Seeing computing change people's lives as it had changed mine was the most exciting thing in the world to me.
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So as you look at your own path, don't focus on the thing your parents want you to do
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or the thing all your friends are doing or that society expects of you.
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Instead, think about the things that keep you chatting excitedly with your roommate late into the night and go do those things.
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Class of 2026, I genuinely believe you are the most capable class in history, at least until next year's class.
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That's how progress works.
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You have thousands of moments ahead of you.
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The important thing isn't to get them all right, it's to find a way to keep moving forward.
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we end up somewhere wonderful, like a beautiful snow-capped mountain.
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Other times we end up in, well, Vegas.
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Both are a gift.
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You already have the California optimism to see life's golden hills and a Stanford diploma proving you can do hard things.
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Now go out and set your heart ablaze.
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Congratulations.
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Let's speak English.
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Together.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Sundar Pichai: Say Yes to Hard Things”. Deze video bevat 179 zinnen en 2291 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 14:54. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 154 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 |
|---|---|---|
| optimism zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/ | optimisme |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| graduation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/ | diploma-uitreiking |
| commencement zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈmɛnsmənt/ | aanvang |
| consensus zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈsɛnsəs/ | consensus, eensgezindheid |
| ablaze bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /əˈbleɪz/ | in lichterlaaie, in vuur en vlam |
| agnostic zelfstandig naamwoord | /aɡˈnɒstɪk/ | agnosticus |
| blackjack zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈblækd͡ʒæk/ | eenentwintigen |
| brochure zelfstandig naamwoord | /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/ | brochure |
| classmate zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklæs.meɪt/ | klasgenoot, klasgenote |
| compute werkwoord | /kəmˈpjuːt/ | uitrekenen, berekenen |
| constraint zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ | beperking, inperking |
| doctorate zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/ | doctorsgraad, doctoraat |
| dormitory zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/ | slaapzaal, slaapcel |
| earring zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪəɹɪŋ/ | oorbel, oorring |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| go out werkwoord | naar buiten gaan | |
| set off werkwoord | vertrekken | |
| set out werkwoord | /ˈsɛt‿aʊt/ | uitzetten, uiteenzetten |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- Let's give them another round of applause.
- The most timeless advice I've learned is technology agnostic.
- Some of you know what you're pursuing already.
- I'd never skipped a class.
- I'd never definitely taken a road trip before.
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 | I've ever given · have supported · it's been |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is advertised · was misadvertised · being built |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 35 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'd, I'm, wasn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, brochure /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/, consequential /ˌkɑnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: optimism /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, consequential /ˌkɑnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl/, demoralize /dɪˈmɒɹəlaɪz/, dormitory /ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: ablaze /əˈbleɪz/, demoralize /dɪˈmɒɹəlaɪz/, overload /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/, advertise /ˈædvɚˌtaɪ̯z/, naive /naɪˈiv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, blackjack /ˈblækd͡ʒæk/, classmate /ˈklæs.meɪt/, gravitate /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/, stagnate /ˈstæɡneɪt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, agnostic /aɡˈnɒstɪk/, gigabyte /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, gravitate /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/, stagnate /ˈstæɡneɪt/
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 optimism, excite, graduation.
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