Shadowing Practice: What We Get WRONG About Business | Simon Sinek - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So in a finite game, baseball, the other players are competitors.
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The goal is actually to beat them, that your score is higher, and at the end of the game, you will be declared winner, right?
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In business, there's not really such thing, and so to view each other's competitors is kind of silly, because two companies can sell the same thing for about the same price,
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about the same quality, and both be wildly successful simultaneously.
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Instead of thinking of each other's competitors, because then all you do is focus on reacting to what they do, Instead, you want to find the players who are as good
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or better than you on one or many things and have respect for them because their strengths reveal to you your weaknesses.
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The point is you're not trying to beat them.
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You're trying to outdo yourself.
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I'll give you a real-life example that happened to me.
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I spoke at an education summit for Microsoft, and by sheer weird coincidence, a few months later, I spoke at an education summit for Apple.
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At the Microsoft Summit, most of the executives spent most of their presentations talking about how to beat Apple.
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That's actually the language they used.
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Whereas the Apple Summit, 100% of the executives spent 100% of their presentations talking about how to help teachers teach
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and how to help students learn.
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One was obsessed with their mission, the other one was obsessed with trying to beat their competition.
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After my talk at Microsoft, they gave me a gift.
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They gave me the new Zune when it was a thing.
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Some people remember what that was.
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This was Microsoft's response to the iPod MP3 player and Balmer's intention was to beat Apple and make the product better, and by the way, they did a great job.
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It was a good product.
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They gave me the newest Zune at the time.
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And it was great.
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I was finished with my talk at Apple and I was sharing a taxi with a senior executive.
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And I have this character flaw where I have to stir the pot like you telling me not to mention, don't hit the button.
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And I'm like, ugh.
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So I'm sitting in the back of this taxi just like, I've got to do it.
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And I turn to him and I say, you know, Microsoft gave me their new Zune.
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It is so much better than my iPod.
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And he looked at me and said, I have no doubt.
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And the conversation was over.
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Because companies playing with an infinite mindset understand that there's no such thing as a winner or a loser.
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There's no such thing as winning or losing.
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There's no such thing as beating or competition.
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You're either ahead or behind.
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And the goal is not to compete against your competitor.
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The goal is to compete against yourself.
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How do I outdo ourselves?
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How do we make our culture better this year than it was last year?
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How do we make our leaders better this year than they were last year?
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How do we make our marketing better this year than it was last year?
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Learn from your worthy rivals, those who are better than you.
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Have their strengths reveal to you where you have to improve.
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It's worth noting that a year or two after this conversation, Apple introduced the iPod, which rendered both the iPhone, which rendered both the iPod and the Zoom obsolete,
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because they weren't competing against to make a better iPod.
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They were competing against themselves.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “What We Get WRONG About Business”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Apple, ipod, beat, competitor, summit. Deze video bevat 46 zinnen en 595 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 2:53. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 207 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 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 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| competitor zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/ | concurrent, concurent |
| obsess werkwoord | /əbˈsɛs/ | obsederen |
| outdo werkwoord | /aʊtˈdu/ | overtreffen |
| render werkwoord | /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/ | veroorzaken |
| taxi zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtæksi/ | taxi |
| flaw zelfstandig naamwoord | /flɔ/ | barst, barstje |
| obsolete bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɑbsəlit/ | verouderd, achterhaald |
| finite bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈfaɪ.naɪt/ | eindig |
| mindset zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | mentaliteit, ingelsteldheid |
| stir werkwoord | /stɝ/ | roeren |
| coincidence zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ | toeval |
| sheer bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʃɪɚ/ | flinterdun |
| loser zelfstandig naamwoord | /luzɚ/ | verliezer |
| declare werkwoord | /dɪˈklɛɚ/ | verklaren |
| react werkwoord | /ɹiːˈækt/ | reageren |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- The point is you're not trying to beat them.
- You're trying to outdo yourself.
- You're either ahead or behind.
- How do I outdo ourselves?
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 9 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: taxi /ˈtæksi/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: wildly /ˈwaɪldli/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/
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 competitor, obsess, outdo.
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.