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Stand out.
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If you're remarkable, it's likely that some people won't like you.
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That's part of the definition of being remarkable.
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Nobody gets unanimous praise, ever.
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The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed.
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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Where did you learn how to fail?
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If you're like most people, you learned in first grade.
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That's when you started figuring out that the safe thing to do was to fit in.
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The safe thing to do was to color inside the lines.
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Don't ask too many questions in class, etc. Playing it safe.
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Following the rules.
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Those seem like the best ways to avoid failure.
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And in school, they may very well be.
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However, these rules set a pattern for most people, like your boss, and that pattern is awfully dangerous.
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These are the rules that ultimately lead to failure.
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failure.
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In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
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The good news is that the prevailing wisdom makes your job even easier.
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Since just about everyone else is petrified of being different,
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you can be remarkable with even less effort.
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If successful new products are the ones that stand out,
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and most people desire not to stand out, you're set.
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So, it seems we face two choices.
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To be invisible, anonymous, uncriticized, and safe.
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Or, to take a chance at greatness, uniqueness, and big success.
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Seth Godin, marketing expert, www .sethgodin .com If you want to be a big success in your career,
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or if you want to create your own successful business, you must be remarkable.
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The problem is, being remarkable is scary.
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We are taught all our lives to be the same.
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We are taught to avoid criticism.
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We are taught to fit in.
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We learn to do what everyone else is doing.
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That does give us a little security.
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We manage to keep a safe but boring job.
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We make a little money.
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Maybe we get a small promotion.
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But we never achieve our dreams.
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We never attain big success, total financial freedom, plenty of time to enjoy our lives,
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and feelings of happiness and ecstasy.
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Most people feel stuck in their jobs.
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They want something more, but they are afraid to be different.
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Starting your own business is scary.
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I know.
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I was terrified when I started Effortless English.
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To be honest, I wasn't worried about money.
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What terrified me was humiliation.
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I told everyone about the business.
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If it had failed, I would have felt embarrassed.
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I would have felt like a total idiot.
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This fear is normal.
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Don't worry about it.
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Unfortunately, many new business owners play it safe because they are afraid.
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They start a new business, but then they copy what everyone else is doing.
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There's nothing remarkable about the business.
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What happens?
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Usually, the business fails.
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Since the business isn't remarkably different, no one is interested in it.
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Over 90 % of new businesses fail within five years.
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That's a scary statistic.
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How do you avoid being in that 90 %?
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Or maybe you just want to go higher in your career.
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How do you move up?
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You do it by being remarkable.
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You must be different.
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You must be unique.
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You must take risks and do things that no one else is doing.
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When you do this, people will criticize you.
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I was criticized by many English teachers when I started Effortless English.
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They said I was crazy not to teach grammar rules.
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They said students wanted grammar rules and would never buy my lessons.
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Now, I have a successful growing business, and they are still working bad jobs for little money.
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Why?
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Because I chose to be different and remarkable.
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They chose to stay the same and play it safe.
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It's easy to be remarkable.
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Here's how you do it.
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Number one, identify your strong points.
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What are the strongest points of your personality and skills?
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2. Exaggerate those strong points.
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Make them super strong.
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At the same time, ignore your weak points.
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Don't try to correct them.
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Focus on making your strong points even stronger.
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3. Take risks where you are strong.
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Try new things.
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To succeed, you must be extreme.
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For example, the strongest point of effortless English is listening and speaking fluency.
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Several years ago, I was good at helping students speak English easily and fast.
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I also knew from research that grammar study did not help.
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Every other school and teacher focuses on grammar study.
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I focused on my strengths.
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I became better and better and better at teaching students to speak English easily and fast.
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I didn't focus on writing, although that is a legitimate area to study.
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I didn't do what everyone else does, teach useless grammar rules.
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I focused on my strengths.
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Eventually, I created the best system in the world for learning to speak English easily and fast with no grammar study.
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It's remarkable.
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It's unique.
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It's totally different than any other system in the world.
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That's why Effortless English succeeded.
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Use this same strategy with your career or business.
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Do not copy others.
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In fact, strive to be different than everyone else.
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Pick a few things and be remarkable at those things.
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Stand out.
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People will criticize you.
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It's true.
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But in the end, you will live your dreams and they will forever be disappointed.
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Follow Seth Godin's advice
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Take a chance at greatness, uniqueness, and big success

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “04.a Stand Out - Effortless Business English”. As palavras que mais se repetem: remarkable, English, safe, grammar, rules. Este vídeo tem 111 frases e 910 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 8:15. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 110 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. 86% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
remarkable adjetivo/ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩/notável, eminente
grammar substantivo/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/gramática
scary adjetivo/ˈskɛə.ɹi/assustador
criticize verbo/ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/criticar, culpar
succeed verbo/səkˈsiːd/seguir
invisible adjetivo/ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/invisível
marketplace substantivomercado
greatness substantivo/ˈɡɹeɪtnəs/grandeza
ignore verbo/ɪɡˈnɔː/ignorar
lesson substantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lição
happiness substantivo/ˈhæpinɪs/felicidade, alegria
disappointed adjetivo/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/decepcionado, desapontado
skill substantivo/skɪl/habilidade, talento
promotion substantivo/pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/promoção
praise verbo/pɹeɪz/louvar, enaltecer

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraSignificado
figure out verbodescobrir, deduzir

Frases que vale a pena repetir

Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:

  • Where did you learn how to fail?
  • To be honest, I wasn't worried about money.
  • How do you move up?
  • Here's how you do it.
  • What are the strongest points of your personality and skills?

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 11 contrações e formas reduzidas, como don't, you're, didn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/, anonymous /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/, statistical /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: succeed /səkˈsiːd/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, legitimate /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt.ɪ.mət/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, skill /skɪl/, statistical /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kəl/, prevail /pɹɪˈveɪl/
  • /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Faça shadowing frase por frase na velocidade normal, repetindo cada uma até o seu ritmo ficar igual ao do falante.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como remarkable, grammar, scary.

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