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as a social scientist I'm intensely interested in addictive behaviors a lot of people watching
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this video right now they're watching it because they want an edge
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and that's great I admire that you're strivers so am I
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but strivers in the striving process
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they open themselves up to one of the most deleterious addictive behaviors known to mankind and that's workaholism people
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People will work hard, it will create dysfunction in their relationships, they will exhibit hiding behavior where they're sneaking around.
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You don't believe it?
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Well, ask yourself, do you sometimes sneak into the bathroom to check your email, your work email?
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Do you snap shut your laptop computer on a Sunday afternoon when your partner comes home?
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Yeah, yeah, well you're doing it too.
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People get defensive when people question how much they're working, well that's classic addictive behavior.
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Now, I have found in my own work that workaholism actually isn't the primary addiction.
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It's a secondary addiction.
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The primary addiction for most strivers is an addiction to success.
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Success is achieving something of merit and being rewarded for it.
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Many strivers, many of my students, me, look, I'm guilty here.
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We feel fully alive when amazing things are happening and we're able to create value.
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And we don't feel fully alive when we're not doing those things, quite frankly.
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It's a real reward to see something come to fruition, to get that deal, to finish that book in my case,
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to teach a class that goes incredibly well, to get that compliment.
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A lot of that success addiction behavior is neurophysiological as a matter of fact.
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You find that people actually get dopamine in a way, that's a neuromodulator that's implicated in all forms of human addiction,
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that they get dopamine specifically when they feel that they're succeeding at work.
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And while they keep seeking those rewards, they keep seeking success, and seeking success is hard.
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You have to excel, and you have to excel compared to other people, and that means you need to outwork other people,
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and that leads to the work addiction.
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The underlying problem is success addiction.
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Behind that, there's actually something even more profound, which is a tendency to reduce yourself to nothing more than a success machine.
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That's a problem.
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That's a moral problem, as a matter of fact you're more than a success machine.
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You're not a robot.
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Neither am I.
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But when you see yourself as the most excellent person, so very special, you've objectified yourself.
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You've taken away a big piece of your humanity.
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Here's basically how I sum this up.
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If you're exhibiting workaholic behavior, you need to deal with it.
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But then the next question is, okay, how do I stop?
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How do I stop?
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Is there a 12 -step program?
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Is there some detox center that I can get into?
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And the answer
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The answer is no, although a lot of people do need to seek help from mental health professionals for this.
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The answer to this is to actually build your team on
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the people who are going to give you the opportunities to do things that are actually more satisfying than that.
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You need to actually take the people that you love the most and that perhaps you've been neglecting and ask them,
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what do you think I should do?
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What do you actually think I should do instead of that?
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But for workaholics, the primary relationship, love relationship in their life is with work.
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That's not a good love relationship because work can't really love you back.
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Work takes.
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Work doesn't give.
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That means usually you need to cultivate the relationships with the people that really can love you back.
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Who are these people?
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Well, I recommend that people actually start to develop a serious spiritual life, a serious spiritual practice, whether it's a religious experience or not
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that depends on different people maybe
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that means reading the wisdom literature getting in touch with the stoic philosophers
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you know studying the works of Johann Sebastian Bach I don't know going back to the faith of your youth
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but something that gives you a relationship with the divine people who are married is doubling
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and tripling down on the on the metaphysical beauty that actually can
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and should be your marital relationship that might be the first time in years you've actually been able to work on that.
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With your children, that was a big one for me, I'm telling you.
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I mean, I can't tell you the number of times
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that I spent that 14th hour in the office instead of my first hour with my kids when they were little.
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Why?
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Because I had to be special instead of happy, right?
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Workaholic special, that's for sure.
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And they got, you know, they got revenge.
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You know what they did?
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They grew up and I wasn't there for a lot of it.
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Well, now, now it's not going to be that way.
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I have deeper friendships than I ever had before, and I recommend that people actually start to develop these real friendships.
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You know, the problem that CEOs have is they have lots of deal friends, but not that many real friends.
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Deal and real.
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You know the difference.
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Deal friends are incredibly useful.
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Real friends are useless.
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They're just people who love you.
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Cultivating those friendships can be the most exciting adventure that you've had in a really, really long time.
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The bottom line is basically this.
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What substitutes for work?
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The answer is love with humans.
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That's what it comes down to.
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Because happiness is love, full stop.
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Okay, how?
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Give me the algorithm, man.
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And I get it, you know, I want that too.
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And so I do have a lot of rules of thumb that I suggest.
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Real friendship has to extend beyond your spouse, for example.
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So real friends are people that you just love.
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You don't need anything from them and they don't need anything from you.
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You really are not going to be getting the benefit
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that you need from your relationships if your only real friend is your spouse.
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And that's typically the case with a lot of strivers.
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So making real friendship, what we call companion and love with a spouse is critically important, but you need at least one more.
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At least one more person.
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And so working on that is critically important.
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Only one more is, it might be the right number for introverts.
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Extroverts, on the other hand, need more friends than that.
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Start with your spouse, if you're married, then move on to one or two
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or three people with whom you can make a real connection and start investing in that relationship.
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And that means if, you know, that person lives in Atlanta, get on the plane, man get on the plane.
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Say, let's go do something for half a day.
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What do you say?
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And they'll be like, you're coming here to do that, to see me?
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You're like, yep, it'll be super fun.
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I guarantee that you actually do that.
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But that's where the investment starts.
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And those are the numbers that we're trying to talk about.
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And anybody can do that.

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Esta aula de conversação usa o vídeo “Fighting Workaholism: You Are Not a Success Machine”. As palavras que mais se repetem: relationship, addiction, success, behavior, strivers. Este vídeo tem 109 frases e 1207 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 6:27. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 187 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 85% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar. 17 das 109 frases são perguntas, por isso é um bom treino para a entonação de perguntas e respostas curtas.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

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

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
addiction substantivo/əˈdɪkˌʃən/vício, adicção
friendship substantivo/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/amizade
spouse substantivo/spaʊ̯s/cônjuge, esposo
reward substantivo/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/recompensa
addictive adjetivo/əˈdɪktɪv/viciante, viciador
spiritual adjetivo/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/espiritual
incredibly advérbio/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/incrivelmente
exhibit verbo/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/exibir
sneak verbo/sniːk/esgueirar
excel verbo/ɪkˈsɛl/superar, ultrapassar
adventure substantivo/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/aventura
moral adjetivo/ˈmoɹəl/moral
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/comparar
guarantee substantivo/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/garantia
happiness substantivo/ˈhæpinɪs/felicidade, alegria

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
grow up verbocrescer
take away verbo/ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/levar embora, retirar

Frases que vale a pena repetir

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

  • You don't believe it?
  • You've taken away a big piece of your humanity.
  • Here's basically how I sum this up.
  • How do I stop?
  • You know what they did?

Gramática neste vídeo

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

EstruturaNo vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agorahave found · you've objectified · You've taken
Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisaprofound, which is · people who are · people who love

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 36 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, don't, they're. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “th”: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/, fruition /fɹuˈɪʃən/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, deleterious /ˌdɛ.ləˈtɪɹ.i.əs/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, exhibit /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/, sneak /sniːk/, extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: spiritual /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, excel /ɪkˈsɛl/, moral /ˈmoɹəl/, triple /ˈtɹɪp.əl/, marital /ˈmæɹɪtəl/
  • /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: happiness /ˈhæpinɪs/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como addiction, friendship, spouse.

O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.

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