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For the person listening, give some examples of how you might flip your mindset to this moment and today,
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and what would be an example of flipping from feeling purposelessness to saying, "Okay, I know I'm tired,
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but, I'm going to be more purposeful for the rest of the day.
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What would that look like?
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Yeah, you know, I mean, I had a very poignant experience of that, you know, which is when I lost my younger brother, I am a
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hardworking person like a lot of people listening
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and had a lot of purpose and then somehow the grief kind of dislocated me and I felt just profoundly exhausted and
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without this sense of inspiration that he provided me and purposeless is how it felt.
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And I think that what you really need to do is you need to just kind of pause
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and reflect and think about, what are the moments of purpose in this day?
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And for me, what was clear is I have a commitment to orienting with kindness to other people.
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You know?
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That's not...
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a radical idea.
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Almost every great ethical tradition thinks that's where we should begin, you know, from Confucianism to the Abrahamic traditions to contemporary philosophy.
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Practice kindness.
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Practice it.
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You know, when you're walking through a city, practice it when you're, you know, helping somebody get across the street, practice it in your daily work life.
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And then, you know, you.
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30 to 40 % of Americans volunteer.
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It's really good when you're really exhausted, to return to this great tradition of our culture.
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"Who can I volunteer for right now?" And so those little moments, those little small steps of purposefulness really matter.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “The First Step Back To A Purposeful Life”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: practice, tradition, moment. Deze video bevat 22 zinnen en 281 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 1:52. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 151 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 84% 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 12 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
exhaust werkwoord/ɪɡˈzɔst/uitputten, verminderen
kindness zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkaɪnd.nəs/vriendelijkheid, aardigheid
dislocate werkwoord/dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/ontwrichten
hardworking bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈhɑːɹdˌwɜːɹ.kɪŋ/ijverig, vlijtig
poignant bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈpɔɪ.njənt/schrijnend
purposeful bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈpɝ.pəs.fəl/opzettelijk
purposeless bijvoeglijk naamwoorddoelloos
profoundly bijwoord/pɹəˈfaʊndli/grondig
mindset zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentaliteit, ingelsteldheid
pause zelfstandig naamwoord/pɔːz/pauze
ethical bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈɛθɪkəl/ethisch
grief zelfstandig naamwoord/ɡɹiːf/rouw, leedwezen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 5 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, grief /ɡɹiːf/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als exhaust, kindness, dislocate.

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