跟讀練習: Focusing Deeply on One Thing | Robert Greene - 通過影片學習英語口語
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The people you envy are not doing nearly as well as you think.
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So don't let that influence your decisions in life.
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Yeah, something that I think many a person struggle with,
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which is in part this idea of focusing on the thing in front of you versus getting too distracted with other opportunities.
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And I wanted to talk to you about this idea of focus.
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Sure.
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And how important you think it is for mastery.
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Yeah.
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I meet so many young people who will say to me, I'm doing this little crypto thing here and I've got this hair business here and I've got this other thing here
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What would you say to those people that are trying to become a master in this world as it relates to focus?
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It's funny because I'm helping a The son of an old friend of mine who's who's who's got that problem.
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He's incredibly successful Hope he's not listening to this.
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He's 20 years old.
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He's very wealthy.
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He's done amazing things But he's one of those people who spread himself out to all these different things.
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And I can't find a through line what connects them all except making money and having connections and stuff.
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And it's very alluring in this world, particularly where there's so many possibilities.
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Where you can get on the internet, you can learn this out of the other people who are doing these things.
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You can get into crypto, you can start your own business here,
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you can get into the health and fitness world and then later on try to figure out how to connect them all.
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But life doesn't work like that.
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That's not how the brain functions.
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That's not what we were meant for.
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Because it doesn't start from you.
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The whole thing has to start from you.
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It can't start from the world.
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It can't start from what other people are doing.
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It can't start from what's sexy.
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It has to come from within.
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If it doesn't come from within, then you're going to be floundering for years and years and years.
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And so what I've done with this young person, whose name I won't mention but I love dearly, is what is it that really is in your heart?
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What is it that you really, really love?
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How can we connect this crypto with this media business that you're starting, with the sports world that you're starting,
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this fitness thing, what connects them all?
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And to me, I was thinking, I was getting the sense, we haven't solved it yet,
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but he's kind of excited by celebrities and by that world.
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And that's fine, I think there's nothing wrong with that.
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So I'd say, well, maybe what connects all this is the film business, right?
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Because the film business is pretty wide-ranging.
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To be a producer, to raise money, You're dealing with all kinds of different people, you're networking, you're meeting starlets, you know, it's a glamorous life, but it's focused, okay?
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So, you know, when you focus on something, the world just kind of opens up, but you have to be focusing on the right thing.
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So, if you were meant to be a writer
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and then you decide because you want money to go into law school and then you focus very deeply on law school,
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What will happen is for a year or two you'll be able to skid by, but then the wheels will start going slower and slower because you're not interested in it, you're not connected to it.
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You get bored and your focus will start falling to pieces.
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But if it's something you love, you can focus on that for seven, eight, ten, twelve years and never get bored.
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From observing a certain family member of mine do a very similar thing,
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part of it as well is that when she would start one pursuit,
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starting X business, it would get hard, as it always does.
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And when you look over at the person across the road, they seem to be having a much easier life with their thing
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or with their crypto or with their whatever
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and they tell you the story of how much money they've made and how easy it was, whatever.
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So you get tempted into believing that the grass is greener, you pursue that.
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So now you're doing two things.
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Now your first thing starts to suffer.
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And I think especially in the early season of life, when you don't have Elon Musk resources, much of the game is focusing enough on one thing to build those resources
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so that you have the chance of being able to do it more than one thing
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or spreading your bets a bit more.
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But in that first season when you're in resource accumulation phase, I think my early investors I remember one day emailing my first investor who's a very successful man
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and saying I've got an idea
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And it was an idea other than the one he'd invested in
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and I remember the email He I was 18 years old
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and he hit me so hard on that email He was like
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if you don't focus on one thing you will never But you were the one that was interested in this other yeah, I was trying to use the one yeah So hit my investor.
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He was a very successful man.
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I emailed him this other idea, which I thought was amazing Yeah, yeah, yeah And he sent me this email back
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which was like being hit by a whip and he was like
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if you don't focus on one thing now You will never be successful
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because also you rub yourself as you said of the chance of accumulating deep skills.
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Yeah Yes, it is Yeah, I remember
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This is something that wise people know and if you're young
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if you have like a mentor Like you did who could tell you that the truth the ropes as they are.
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It will help save you years of misery.
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I remember when we were at American Apparel, it was the year 2007, the company was just about to go public.
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I was about to be put on the board of directors
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and this man came to me who was like your investor and he said, Robert, just make sure that Doves doesn't mindlessly expand.
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Make the brand focused, have it focused on one thing and then he will be successful.
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At the time I thought that was interesting but I didn't really have the guts to like explain that to Dove.
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But there are people out there who understand the truth of this.
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But the other thing about envy, like you say, you see your other friend doing crypto and they're having so much fun and making so much money.
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I tell you it's bullshit.
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They're not having as much fun as you think, right?
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People create a front on Instagram or TikTok or wherever, where life seems so glorious.
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But they're never having as much fun as you might imagine.
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In my book, Laws of Human Nature, I talk about Aristotle Onassis, who in the 60s was the wealthiest man in the world.
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He was married to John F.
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Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jacqueline Onassis.
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Who could be happier than that?
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He had yachts, etc. He was the most unhappiest miserable person in the world, as Jacqueline Kennedy explained in her autobiography.
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He was such a mean-spirited, unhappy person.
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Yet everybody thought envied him because he had this beautiful wife and all that money.
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The people you envy are not doing nearly as well as you think, so don't let that influence your decisions in life.
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本節課你將練習什麼？
通過這段關於“專注”的對話，你將學習如何用自然的英語表達對人生選擇、事業方向的思考。你會聽到真實的口語交流，包括舉例、建議和觀點闡述，非常適合用來提升聽力理解和口語表達的流暢度。同時，我們還會結合“英語影子跟讀”技巧，幫你快速掌握對話中的語音、語調和節奏。
核心詞彙與短語
- floundering：（因迷茫而）掙扎，不知所措。例：如果目標不明確，你可能會在事業中floundering多年。
- through line：（貫穿始終的）主線，核心。例：他的多個專案缺乏through line，只是為了賺錢。
- skid by：勉強應付，矇混過關。例：對不感興趣的事，你可能只能skid by一兩年。
- alluring：誘人的，有吸引力的。例：網路上的各種機會看起來很alluring，但容易讓人分心。
- mastery：精通，掌握。例：專注是實現mastery的關鍵。
影子跟讀練習技巧
這段對話的語速中等，語氣親切自然，非常適合“shadow speak”練習。建議你這樣做：首先完整聽一遍，感受整體節奏；然後逐句跟讀，重點模仿說話人的停頓和重音（比如“it has to come from within”中的“within”要重讀）。如果遇到長句子，可以先拆分結構，再慢慢跟上。
想要提升效果，可以使用專業的“shadowspeak”工具或“shadowing site”，反覆播放並同步跟讀。記住，影子跟讀的關鍵是“同步”——不要等句子結束再開口，而是儘量緊隨說話人的節奏。堅持練習，你會發現自己的口語流暢度和聽力理解力都有明顯進步！
別擔心一開始跟不上，哪怕每天練習5分鐘，只要專注，就能看到“quick wins”。現在就開啟影片，開始你的“英語影子跟讀”之旅吧！
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | were meant · being hit · be put |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | I've done · haven't solved · they've made |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | people who will · people who spread · people who are |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。