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We are living through a period of rapid change.
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In every direction, every facet of life right now, things are changing faster than ever.
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And what separates the rapid development today from the rapid development of previous eras, such as the Industrial Revolution,
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for example, is that we're not developing into a new societal structure and a new world.
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We're not going from an old world into a new world.
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We're going from a world
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that is set in its structure to a world where nothing stays the same for very long at all.
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The Industrial Revolution changed the world into a new way of living.
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But the world that we're going into with the digital renaissance
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and the technological development that we're seeing is a world where everything will just always be changing.
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And it'll be hard to find a set structure.
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Things will develop all the time, and you won't be able to find any real firm sense of grounding in a specific way of going about things.
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Things will just constantly develop, and you will always need to be on the move, and always need to be agile in that sense.
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And that's why the concept of being a self-educated polymath with a sense of intellectual fitness is so important.
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And that's why I want to talk about this book today called The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman,
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where he says that we shouldn't view the intellect as something that just allows us to learn how to do something.
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But we should view the intellect much more how we view the physical body, where you can work on your intellectual fitness.
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And it's so important to do so because by working on your intellectual fitness, you're able to be agile.
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The person who's intellectually fit will be able to be moved from one job to another, from one way of doing things to another,
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and be able to be a faster learner and excel in different facets of life.
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It's the same thing as if you were really good at tennis because you know how to play tennis, you would be better than somebody who is more fit than you,
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but has never played tennis before because they don't know how to play tennis, but you do.
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But if you both change to a completely new sport like basketball, for example, and they've never played basketball and neither have you,
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but they're more fit than you, then all of a sudden they're going to be better at basketball right off the jump because they're just more physically capable.
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They have that agility in that sense.
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And that's how you need to view the intellect.
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While, of course, it is important to know how to do specific things if you want to be a writer, you need to know how to write.
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You need to know the rules of grammar.
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You need to know how to structure a paragraph, how to structure a story.
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Of course, that's important.
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But what separates the great writers from the good writers is
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that the great writers have intellectual fitness where they've gone down all these different rabbit holes.
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They've learned about history.
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They've learned about science.
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They've learned about mathematics.
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And they can work that into their writing.
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They can weave that in.
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They have intellectual agility and intellectual fitness, which allows their work to be more unique.
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And in the age of the digital renaissance, in the age of artificial intelligence,
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your own unique intellectual ability is what is going to set you apart from other people
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and allow you to have a firm sense of your own intellectual fitness
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so that if you need to pivot in your career, if you need to pivot in life because technology has streamlined a specific process
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and all of a sudden something you were doing or the way you were going about your own work doesn't work anymore, it's not efficient in the current age and you need to develop,
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you need to change, you need to adapt, you can do that at a better ability because you have that intellectual fitness.
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And John Henry Newman believed that this is what universities should teach, that universities shouldn't just always be about practical memorization techniques
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and be so rigid in its rubric and in its structure of education,
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but universities should also allow the students to learn purely for the sake of learning,
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because learning and education in itself is a good thing.
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It doesn't always need to be practical.
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It doesn't always need to be applicable, because when you just learn for its own sake, like when you read philosophy, there's nothing practical about that.
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I mean, you're either going to be a priest or an academic.
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You're not going to be able to build a proper business and structure out of just studying philosophy.
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But it does help your brain.
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It allows you to be more intellectually fit, which allows you perhaps to think about business in a different way.
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And then when you learn how to go about the business you're looking to start, you have your own unique approach to it, if that makes sense.
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You just have basic agility of the intellect.
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And so to get back to the digital age, to get back to AI, it is extremely important.
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But the good thing is today, we don't necessarily need universities to do that, Because we have YouTube, we have the internet, we have social media, we can follow our own curiosity in
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so many different angles that we are able to self-educate
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and become a self-educated polymath and increase our intellectual fitness without the need of a university
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and we can do it basically completely free.
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However, the one caveat to this self-education trend
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that we're seeing online right now is that it is easier to go into echo chambers.
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If you're going down a rabbit hole of history, for example, it's easy to go down one side's version of history
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and completely miss some facts that happened on the other side and not be able to hold two truths at once,
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which isn't going to make you intellectually fit.
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It's just going to make you intellectually biased.
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And it's very important when going down this self-education route, when trying to be a self-educated polymath,
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to remember that you need to always be curious and always understand
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that you need to challenge yourself and find things you disagree with, as that's what actually makes you intellectually fit.
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There's a really great idea that comes from C.S.
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Lewis when it comes to your own reading,
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which is that you should always assume that the person who wrote the book you're reading may know something that you don't.
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The importance of that is that you know that maybe you will disagree on certain elements.
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Maybe you know something this writer doesn't, but you should assume that they know something you don't because it allows you to open up your curiosity,
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open up your mind, and be receptive to actually expand your mind,
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to actually learn, to actually increase your intellectual fitness without blocking off learning new things just
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because you want to hold strong to your own bias.
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You need to always assume that other people know something you don't, because the simple fact of the matter is, is that you can't know everything, and that no matter who you meet on the street,
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they will know something that you don't.
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They will be right about something that you were wrong about.
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You can't be perfect, you can't know everything, and so when going down this self-education route, when trying to become a self-educated polymath,
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it's always important to keep up that curiosity, to always assume that other people know things you don't, and have some humility in that sense.
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Once again, that comes back to your own curiosity.
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If you can be curious without ego, you're going to expand your intellectual fitness more, you're going to be able to learn more,
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you're going to become a better self-educator, and you're going to be much more equipped for this modern world, where things will always be changing,
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things will always be adapting.
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When you think back just 20 years ago, you would never think that there would be philosophy podcasts
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that are earning millions of dollars a year due to their own media that they're putting out.
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That just wouldn't seem plausible.
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That wouldn't seem possible.
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An academic who's into philosophy wouldn't build some successful seven-figure business model, but because of technology, it's changed the way the world works.
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That opportunity opened up, and they were able to capitalize on that due to their own intellectual agility.
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And this happens in every different direction now.
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This is so, so, so important.
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So always remember to not just treat learning and education as something that needs to be practical,
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but remember that learning for its own sake is also really great and is going to be crucial in today's age.
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But with that said, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and until next time, take care.

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Bài luyện nói trình độ B2 này dựa trên video “Self Educated Polymaths Will Win In The Digital Age”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: intellectual, fitness, self, structure, allow. Video này có 98 câu và 1540 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 9:07. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 169 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. 88% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng dễ theo.

Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:

TừPhiên âmNghĩa
agility danh từ/əˈd͡ʒɪl.ɪ.ti/nhanh nhẹn
intellect danh từ/ˈɪntəlɛkt/trí tuệ, trí năng
curiosity danh từ/ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/tính/sự tò mò, tính/sự ham biết
agile tính từ/ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/nhanh nhẹn
renaissance danh từ/ɹəˈneɪs(ə)ns/phục hưng
rabbit danh từ/ˈɹæbɪt/thỏ
bias danh từ/ˈbaɪ.əs/thiên vị, thiên kiến
streamline động từ/ˈstriːmlaɪn/tinh giản
weave động từ/wiːv/dệt, đan
rigid tính từ/ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/cứng ngắc, cứng nhắc
paragraph danh từ/ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/đoạn
echo danh từ/ˈɛk.oʊ/tiếng dội, tiếng vang
technological tính từ/ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/công nghệ
mathematics danh từ/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/toán học
grammar danh từ/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ngữ pháp, văn phạm

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

TừNghĩa
open up động từmở

Ngữ pháp trong video

Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:

Cấu trúcTrong video
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tạihas never played · they've never played · they've gone
Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làmis set · be moved
Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vậtsomebody who is · person who wrote

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 47 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ you're, don't, we're. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

  • Âm “th”: polymath /ˈpɑliˌmæθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: agility /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ɪ.ti/, curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/, capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/, educator /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/

Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:

  • Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: intellect /ˈɪntəlɛkt/, renaissance /ɹəˈneɪs(ə)ns/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
  • Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: educate /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/, agility /əˈd͡ʒɪl.ɪ.ti/, agile /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/, educator /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/, rigid /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
  • Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: polymath /ˈpɑliˌmæθ/, agile /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/, facet /ˈfæs.ɪt/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, rabbit /ˈɹæbɪt/

Cách luyện với video này

  1. Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
  2. Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
  3. Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như agility, intellect, curiosity.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

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