跟读练习: Leisure's Not a Luxury. It's a Requirement for Top Leaders - 通过视频学习英语口语
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ARTHUR C. BROOKS: I'm a classic striver.
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I work really hard.
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I want to put points on the board every single day.
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You know what I'm bad at?
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Leisure. Now, I know what you're thinking.
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Leisure is chilling on the beach.
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And you're probably not very good at leisure, either, if you're watching this video.
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You're watching content from HBR because you want an edge, man.
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I completely get it.
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But here's where we're wrong, fellow strivers.
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Leisure is a serious business.
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A very famous book written in the middle of the 20th century called Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper, German philosopher-- he was a great philosopher.
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And he said that we need to be great at leisure.
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By that, he meant that we need to be strivers at leisure, too.
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And that meant not being lazy.
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He talked about leisure as being a serious thing in which we're not compensated by the world, but which enriches us and makes us better.
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You don't need work-life balance.
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You need work-life integration.
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And the way to do that, to be better at your job, is also to be better at your "not job." The three parts of leisure that make you truly excellent are all about learning things you don't have to learn, deepening your relationships for which nobody pays you, which is to say, not on the clock, and becoming spiritually or philosophically deeper than you once were.
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Those are the three areas of leisure that you can dedicate yourself to to get better at and watch your happiness and your effectiveness and your productivity and your creativity truly grow.
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And those are great goals for any striver.
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I know you plan out your work.
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Every striver does.
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Every minute is accounted for, right?
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And the trouble is that they don't like the time when they're not working precisely because it's so unstructured, feels like it's frittered away.
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I talk to people all the time who say, boy, at work, I'm unbelievably productive.
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But then I come home, and I'm exhausted.
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And I just waste all my time-- zoom, zoom, zoom-- scrolling through social media.
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And I feel bad about myself.
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The answer to that is to take seriously your leisure time like you take your work.
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That means real assignments and real goals, like having objectives that you're trying to focus on to be better than you once were so that you're looking forward to get home not to do more work and not to fritter away your time on social media, but to read that book that you've always wanted to read.
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I promise you that if you set aside The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-- you probably always wanted to read it.
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Everybody did.
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It's so great.
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It's a complete page-turner.
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And you say, as soon as I get home from work, I'm going to dig into that book.
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That's something that has the dignity of every striver's work calendar.
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And you can dedicate it to your leisure.
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And you can love both.
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You can go too far and suck all the joy out of this if you say to yourself, I'm not going to sleep until I've read 35 pages of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, then pretty soon, you won't look forward to it anymore.
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It has to be something that doesn't become a chore, it doesn't become something that's a task that sucks the meaning out of life, per se.
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One of the ways that you can test this is to see whether or not you're truly getting enjoyment from something.
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And if you are, then you're going to want to be more structured about it.
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You're going to want to do it in a serious way.
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You're going to want to get after it.
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You're going to want to schedule it.
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But if it actually becomes something that you're not enjoying anymore, then you know that you've actually gone too far.
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That's how you figure it out, not too hard.
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Can leisure be unproductive?
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The answer, according to Josef Pieper, who wrote Leisure, the Basis of Culture, is no because if you're doing something that's inherently generative and good, that's productive.
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That doesn't mean it's work itself.
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You don't have to turn your leisure into a job.
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But it has to be something where you have personal growth.
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Maybe that's total and complete relaxation.
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Maybe that's going on a retreat, where you're sitting in meditation or in prayer, or you're getting serious about deepening your relationship outside of the confines of any of your work responsibilities.
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But that's productive.
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It's just a new way of seeing what productivity actually is.
背景与介绍
在这段视频中，亚瑟·C·布鲁克斯分享了他对休闲的独特见解。他认为休闲不仅仅是一种奢侈，它实际上是高效领导者的必要条件。许多人可能会认为休闲只是懒散的享受，但亚瑟却强调，这种看法是错误的，并且提到德国哲学家约瑟夫·皮珀的著作《休闲：文化的基础》，提醒我们在休闲中同样需要努力追求价值。他指出，休闲的三个主要方面——学习无关工作的知识、深化人际关系以及精神或哲学上的提升，能够改善我们的工作表现和生活质量。在追求成功的过程中，休闲不仅应当被视为放松的时间，更是提升自我的机会。
日常交流的五个重要短语
- Leisure is a serious business. 休闲是一项严肃的事业。
- Work-life integration is key. 工作与生活的融合是关键。
- Strive at leisure too. 在休闲中也要努力。
- Set goals for your leisure time. 为你的休闲时间设定目标。
- If it becomes a chore, you've gone too far. 如果它变成了一项苦差事，那你就过头了。
逐步跟读指南
要有效地掌握本视频中的内容，您可以遵循以下步骤进行影子跟读（shadow speech）练习：
- 观看视频： 首先完整观看视频，了解亚瑟的观点和表达方式。这可以帮助您在跟读时明确语调和情感。
- 逐句练习： 从视频中选择短句，比如“休闲是一项严肃的事业”，尝试模仿亚瑟的发音和语调。这个过程减少了理解的障碍。
- 暂停和重复： 在每个短句后暂停视频，重复您听到的内容。这种方法能够增强您的口语流利度并提高发音准确性。
- 记录进步： 录制自己在跟读时的声音，并与原视频对比，分析发音和语调的差异。寻找改进的地方，继续练习。
- 增加词汇量： 侧重于未掌握的新单词和短语，通过查找它们的意义和用法来丰富您的词汇。
通过这种影子跟读（shadowspeak）方法，您不仅能提高英语口语能力，还能在每次练习中感受到学习的乐趣。无论是个人目标的制定，还是享受休闲的过程，都能让您的学习更加高效。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。