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Good morning Dartmouth!

Oh, it's such an honor to be here with you today on this momentous occasion.

Congratulations, you did it!

Welcome to fellow students, to past graduates, to faculty, to friends and families,

and happy Father's Day to all those proud fathers out there.

Thank you, President Bylock, the Board of Trustees, to all the staff who made this day possible,

and to you all for this invitation.

I never attended university myself, only played characters who have.

So thank you for helping fulfill my parents' dream of me actually getting a degree.

And a doctorate at that.

I know, it's honorary.

Actually, it was Shonda Rhimes, one of your alums, and my former boss, who called me.

And when she presented the offer to come and speak to you all today, I thought, well, that's nice to be asked.

What a privilege.

What a great opportunity to come meet you all.

And then I thought, absolutely not.

Oh, my God, what do I have to say?

Okay, this was me thinking.

What could I possibly say to you young graduates that could meet this moment we find ourselves in?

I like Federer's speech last year.

Oh, my God, so good.

I can't be as funny as Conan O 'Brien and Mindy Kaling.

I look at everything she's accomplished, and I just want to go to bed.

And they all spoke in the before times.

You know what I mean.

Like, forget about being roasted on the internet, although I am terrified of that.

What if I say the wrong thing?

What if I were to talk about diversity, equity?

Okay, okay.

What if I change the words? like including diverse equalness or diverting equitable inclusivity.

Would that still be bad? Could I get deported?

See, that should be a bad joke, and it is, but it's not.

These are bewildering and destabilizing times,

and every night since Shonda asked me I have been thinking of you all

and I knew no matter what I was going to say today I needed to be honest.

I realized that underneath this discomfort I was feeling,

the fear, the comparison, the self -judgment was was really a call to come and share myself with you despite these doubts.

So if there's anything I can offer to you today for my own life,

it's this, nothing has taught me more than being with discomfort.

It can be our greatest learning opportunity, and it is also inevitable.

So if you can train yourself not to turn away,

but to learn how to be with your discomfort and trust that it might be telling you something you don't yet know,

it can help you develop an inner strength

that will enable you to face the challenges life presents you with without losing your values

or your sense of self along the way.

As some of you know, I had the great privilege of playing Dr. Christina Yang on Grey's Anatomy for 10 seasons.

So, this opportunity brought me financial stability, fame, and privilege.

It was also one of the most challenging decades of my life.

I learned profound lessons during this time because so much of it was so uncomfortable.

Now, when I started Graze, I was in my early 30s, so I had an idea of who I was and what the work entailed,

but I had no idea what was coming.

I demanded a lot from myself and from the writers.

If something bothered me in a script,

I would fight for what I believed what was right for the character of Christina because I felt responsible for her.

And while this contributed to the creation of a memorable character, my desire to make the dialogue fit

and my belief that I knew what was best for the character also caused grief for the writers and for me.

Let me tell you, okay.

There was a dedicated Sandra Whisperer on staff.

Oh yes, oh yes, a writer who was tasked to come to set to deal with me. That doesn't happen anymore.

I am my own whisperer.

One time, I think it was season six, the writers and I were at an impasse about something in this script

and I had to have a call with the big boss and Shonda, I'll never forget, she said to me, Sandra, we have been here before.

You've got to trust me.

Something will come through if you just say the damn words.

Okay, I know she didn't say that exactly because Shonda is a very classy lady, but it has stayed with me.

I heard her.

I thought about everything the writers and I had created together

and I trusted Shonda because deep down we both wanted the same thing, a great show.

The discomfort didn't go away but my relationship to it began to change.

I started to understand that it was part of the process of making a great show or a great anything.

So, I said the damn words.

And when I stopped trying to bend things to my will and stayed open to my discomfort, a new thing came through.

Something that wasn't just mine or just the writers,

but something richer that gave me a deeper understanding of myself as the character, as an actor, and as a collaborator.

Oh, and it's not like I've stopped pushing or fighting,

I'm not suggesting that, but I no longer see these uncomfortable impasses as battles to be won or lost.

They are opportunities to practice how you want to show up, how you want to lead, who you want to be,

clues to where the gold is buried.

And by gold, I mean like the really deep work in life that will help you become a more grounded, more resilient version of yourself,

which you are going to need going forward.

Because life is going to challenge you in ways you cannot anticipate.

Things will happen that are completely out of your control.

This was true for me on Grace.

You know, beyond the creative process, which I did have some say in, there were other things happening that were completely out of my control.

My skin was falling off.

I was afraid to leave my house.

The relentless schedule was completely overwhelming, and I got sick.

Physically and mentally, it was past my limit.

And all the ways I had previously managed to muscle through mental and physical discomfort simply weren't working,

because it turns out you can't ghost depression.

or outsource a panic attack.

The show must go on.

Life is simply not going to stop for you.

The more I wanted my external circumstances to change, the worse I felt.

And things only started to stabilize when I looked inside.

Now, even if you're in perfect health right now, which I hope you are, I bet you feel discomfort about things you can't control.

Maybe you're worried about finding a job, or moving away from friends.

Maybe you're worried about the dismantling of civil rights and liberties, or the planet burning, or the robots taking over.

Maybe you desperately want to make a difference, and you have no idea how to start.

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whatever reason.

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One way to start building some muscle around this discomfort is to actually be in it by choice.

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Tiny, bite -sized moments where you can practice being with it safely.

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And one way I've practiced doing this is to be in silence.

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Stay with me.

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being in silence has helped me develop an inner life

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and what I mean by that is having a relationship with yourself that is beyond your immediate thoughts beyond your immediate feelings

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Beyond just reacting, because if we're always reacting,

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if we're always distracted, we can't fight for the things we want because we won't even know what they are.

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So what if we just try bite -sized discomfort?

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How was that?

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Anxiety -provoking?

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Confusing?

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Did you want to reach for your phone?

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It's interesting, isn't it?

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How much is going on up here and in here when we try to be quiet?

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And how often what we find is neurotic or judgmental or scared?

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So how do you find ease within discomfort without turning away or being thrown off balance?

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The way I have tried to be with this is to be kind.

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Kindness can be hard to find these days.

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It is certainly not reflected in many of our world leaders who claim power through fear and oppression and cruelty.

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A lot of us are scared and angry about what's going on in the world

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And in times like this, kindness might seem naive or pointless.

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But when I say kindness, I'm not talking about being nice.

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I am talking about being able to hold your own heartbreak.

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So we can go on living.

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Go on resisting.

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Go on building.

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Go on healing so we can meet cruelty again and again and not lose our humanity.

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The kindness I am talking about encompasses courage and respect and compassion.

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It helps us get out of bed in the morning.

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It helps us to lead.

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It is the opposite of weakness.

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It is the foundation for a lasting strength.

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And it is really hard to be truly kind, to have kind thoughts towards yourself or towards someone you don't agree with,

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but it is the seed that will grow into action if you nurture it.

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Now, if you're not sure about the feeling I'm talking about,

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or you find kindness kind of difficult to access because it's like an amorphous wash,

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then what about heartbreak? Can you feel heartbreak?

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I bet everyone here knows heartbreak.

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If you're living in this world, you know heartbreak.

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So now, imagine this heartbreak,

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whether it is as personal as a breakup or as big as a war thousands of miles away.

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Imagine you're holding it in your hands.

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What shape is it?

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Is it heavy?

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Does it have color?

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Maybe it's burning your palms or slipping through your fingers or maybe it is so large you can barely contain it.

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Can you hold it with care and keep it safe just for this moment?

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Can you hold your heartbreak with tenderness and give it your loving attention and keep it steady?

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This, this is kindness happiness.

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You all have been incredibly fortunate to spend these formative years here in a place

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that celebrates knowledge and has given you the opportunity to express yourselves.

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If you want to protect academic freedom, if you want to stop the brutality of oppression,

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If you want true democratic change, if you want to just lead a simple and good life,

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the strength you will need to do these things begins with knowing kindness.

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So as you venture off into the rest of your lives,

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I hope you can remember what we shared here today and fill up on it and then extend it outwards towards others,

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towards the planet, because we're all going to need a full arsenal of kindness to meet this world.

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And now more than ever, actually, you know what?

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I'm so sorry.

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There's one more thing.

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I'm so sorry.

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Do I have time for just one?

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Okay.

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I'm so sorry.

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Okay.

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You know what?

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Okay.

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There is this one thing I've done like my whole life that I would really love to share with you all.

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So, um, uh, okay.

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Uh, stand up.

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Everyone just stand up.

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Can everyone just stand up?

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Everyone stand up in the bleachers.

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I see you.

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Everyone stand up.

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This is for the graduates.

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If you can, and you're able, you know, we're practicing discomfort.

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Let's all just stand up.

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Okay.

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Uh, so when the world gets hard or when it's good,

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especially when it's good like today, okay.

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By yourself, with your friends, people you love, with strangers,

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always make the time to dance it out.

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We've got 15 seconds to move on, boys.

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Let's go.

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Let's go.

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Oh, no. Put away your phones.

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Let's move it, move it, move it.

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Woo.

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Come on, moms and dads.

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it is possible to move discomfort into joy remember this feeling carry it and

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care for it and then give it to others thank you who wants to dance with me

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I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose

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Fire away, fire away

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Break the shape, you take your aim

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Fire away, fire away

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Just shoot me down, but I won't fall I am fighting here

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You shoot me down

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But I'm a follower I am Titan I am Titan

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I am Titan Stonehold

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Thank you.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “2025 Commencement Address by Sandra Oh”. Este vídeo tem 202 frases e 2102 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 18:28. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 114 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. 84% 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:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
discomfort substantivo	/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/	desconforto
kindness substantivo	/ˈkaɪnd.nəs/	gentileza
privilege substantivo	/ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/	privilégio
silence substantivo	/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/	silêncio
muscle substantivo	/ˈmʌs.əl/	músculo
script substantivo	/skɹɪpt/	escrito
bite verbo	/baɪt/	morder
uncomfortable adjetivo	/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/	desconfortável, incómodo
react verbo	/ɹiːˈækt/	reagir
scare verbo	/skɛɚ/	assustar
oppression substantivo	/əˈpɹɛʃən/	opressão
cruelty substantivo	/ˈkɹu(.ə)lti/	crueldade, perversidade
finger substantivo	/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/	dedo (da mão)
lesson substantivo	/ˈlɛs.ən/	lição
belief substantivo	/bɪˈliːf/	crença

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Significado
stand up verbo	levantar
fall off verbo	cair
go away verbo	sair, partir
going forward advérbio	doravante, daqui em diante
put away verbo	guardar
take over verbo	tomar posse de, apoderar-se de
turn out verbo	terminar

Frases que vale a pena repetir

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

What if I say the wrong thing?
What if I were to talk about diversity, equity?
What if I change the words?
Did you want to reach for your phone?
Do I have time for just one?

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	has taught · have been · has stayed
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	be asked · being roasted · was tasked

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 39 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, you're, can't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

Os sons de “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: oppression /əˈpɹɛʃən/, wash /wɑʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: discomfort /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/, script /skɹɪpt/, bite /baɪt/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, ghost /ɡoʊst/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: muscle /ˈmʌs.əl/, arsenal /ˈɑːsənəl/, enable /ɪˈneɪ.bəl/, heal /ˈhiːl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/
/h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, heal /ˈhiːl/, heartbreak /ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/

Como praticar com este vídeo

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

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