Prática de Shadowing: What We Get WRONG About Business | Simon Sinek - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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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.

Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “What We Get WRONG About Business”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Apple, ipod, beat, competitor, summit. Este vídeo tem 46 frases e 595 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:53. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 207 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. 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

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
competitor substantivo/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/competidor, adversário
outdo verbo/aʊtˈdu/superar
render verbo/ˈɹɛn.dɚ/tornar
taxi substantivo/ˈtæksi/táxi
flaw substantivo/flɔ/falha, defeito
obsolete adjetivo/ˈɑbsəlit/obsoleto
wildly advérbio/ˈwaɪldli/selvagemente, selvaticamente
finite adjetivo/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/finito
mindset substantivo/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentalidade
stir verbo/stɝ/mexer
coincidence substantivo/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/coincidência
sheer adjetivo/ʃɪɚ/fino
loser substantivo/luzɚ/perdedor
declare verbo/dɪˈklɛɚ/declarar
react verbo/ɹiːˈækt/reagir

Frases que vale a pena repetir

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

  • 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?

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 9 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, I'm, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, coincidence /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: obsolete /ˈɑbsəlit/, finite /ˈfaɪ.naɪt/, mindset /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, infinite /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/

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 competitor, outdo, render.

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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