跟读练习: Focusing Deeply on One Thing | Robert Greene - 通过视频学习英语口语
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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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本节课你将练习什么？
通过这段关于“专注”的对话，你将学习如何用自然的英语表达对人生选择、事业方向的思考。你会听到真实的口语交流，包括举例、建议和观点阐述，非常适合用来提升听力理解和口语表达的流畅度。同时，我们还会结合“英语影子跟读”技巧，帮你快速掌握对话中的语音、语调和节奏。
核心词汇与短语
- floundering：（因迷茫而）挣扎，不知所措。例：如果目标不明确，你可能会在事业中floundering多年。
- through line：（贯穿始终的）主线，核心。例：他的多个项目缺乏through line，只是为了赚钱。
- skid by：勉强应付，蒙混过关。例：对不感兴趣的事，你可能只能skid by一两年。
- alluring：诱人的，有吸引力的。例：网络上的各种机会看起来很alluring，但容易让人分心。
- mastery：精通，掌握。例：专注是实现mastery的关键。
影子跟读练习技巧
这段对话的语速中等，语气亲切自然，非常适合“shadow speak”练习。建议你这样做：首先完整听一遍，感受整体节奏；然后逐句跟读，重点模仿说话人的停顿和重音（比如“it has to come from within”中的“within”要重读）。如果遇到长句子，可以先拆分结构，再慢慢跟上。
想要提升效果，可以使用专业的“shadowspeak”工具或“shadowing site”，反复播放并同步跟读。记住，影子跟读的关键是“同步”——不要等句子结束再开口，而是尽量紧随说话人的节奏。坚持练习，你会发现自己的口语流畅度和听力理解力都有明显进步！
别担心一开始跟不上，哪怕每天练习5分钟，只要专注，就能看到“quick wins”。现在就打开视频，开始你的“英语影子跟读”之旅吧！
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | were meant · being hit · be put |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | I've done · haven't solved · they've made |
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什么是跟读法？
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