Listening-Ted-Success-Is-A-Continuous-Journey Cly 1 [PDF]

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Listening -What do you think success is? Do you consider yourself a successful person? Why? Why not? How would you measure success? (In terms of…)

I think that success is when you are able to take your goals and make them come true, it is the result of effort, discipline, perseverance. Success is something all want to reach because it brings happiness and personal satisfaction. I consider that success isn’t measured only by material things, I think success is when you keep a balance between economic stability and emotional stability, also I think a successful person is who lives doing something that loves and helps to turn the world into a better place. I don’t consider myself a successful person, because I have many goals still I haven’t achieved because I usually get frustrated and I give up, It’s something I hate myself and I am conscious this doesn’t allow to get my aims, so I have a new goal and it’s overcome this thing that blocks my dreams and being a more persistent person and more hardworking. BRAINSTORM Persistent, goals, aims, dreams, balance, stability, overcome, achieve, -Which of these people would you consider a clear example of a successful individual/ successful business person? Explain your answer Maradona Lio Messi

Bill Gates Riquelme

Mother Teresa Al Capone

The Pope

Bill Clinton

I believe these five people are successful because worked hard to achieve their goals and because take advantage of their bad experiences to grow like people, those failures served them to create new opportunities and became its weaknesses into strengths, inspiring and helping many people. For example, Bill Gates, in spite of his previous failed attempts, created Microsoft, and currently, it is a huge and important company that changed the technology world. Lio Messi, despite his disease, is a world-renowned football player, he is one of the best in the world and now he is an example of individual success, being a big model to admire for many children. Mother Teresa, instead, had a gift sent for god and she used that gift to help others. The pope is in charge to share god’s word and cultivating peace, nowadays this is a task very necessary. Bill Clinton was president of the United States and he got that post having some features like eloquence, patient, and capacity to convince. So, these people teach us that nothing is easy if we want to reach succes we have to be disciplined and persistent -Which of these terms do you consider important to achieve success? Have money Observe Patience

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eing wise

Being a good listener good connection

Being good at solving problems focus Ideas

get on well with partners/costumers Being curious Being passion

push

lucky

persist

work

improve

Some charestics of success people are patience, focus, passion, persist, work and improve, these charestics are difficult to find on someone, but when you realize that achieve your goals only depend on you and start to apply these qualities in your daily life, certainly you’ll be a more productive person

-Exercise: Listen to R. St John ‘s talk “Success is a continuous journey”, at ted.com -Checking meaning: -All these terms appear in the talk. Could you explain their meaning, according to the context?

Pushed myself: It refers to put yourself under press and stress because you want to get something so much, then, pushing yourself too strong

Figure out: It is a searching process to overcome your troubles

Comfort zone: It is a zone where you are lock up, being relax because think that your success is enough and don’t improve.

A hot shot guy: someone who is skilful and successful at something, so, he thinks he's a real hot- shot-guy

($) pours in: It means that money started to appear, he began to gain money and it blinded of important things

(Put into) antidepressants: It means that the doctor prescribed antidepressants.

I was floating along: It is when someone don’t feel well and has their mind dispersed, not clear Outwardly /inwardly: Outwardly refers to external appearance while Inwardly is the internal appearance

To come up with ideas: It means that you create or generate ideas.

I couldn’t care less: It refers that you don’t have mind and time to manage a problem, because you just don’t feel like about that To drop like a rock: It indicates that something fell quickly

Go downhill: It is when a project is having a crisis and fell completely, it means that project fails Creative block: It means that you cannot create new ideas

To cut a long story short: It indicates that you are going to tell something in a brief way you are going to make a summary It looks like: it explains how is the appearance of something, how it looks I made it: It refers to something you got it

Let employees go: It refers to had to dismiss employees

-Comprehension -What were Richard’s mistakes, to lose a successful business? Richard locked himself in a comfort zone, he thought wasn’t necessary to improve, also he left apart his business when money started to gain, he gave more importance to money and didn’t take care about his company -What happened in Richard’s life when he became the president of a successful company? He thought that his success was enough, he made the worst mistake that he could make to get into a comfort zone, that’s why he didn’t upgrade his company and just begin to be relax while his company sank down -What sides of being successful he disliked?

He disliked that people when to achieve success forget to keep improving because they get into a comfort zone and this zone is responsible mostly people who someday achieved success go downhill, just as it happened to him  

-What was the solution Richard found to fight his depression?

He resolved his depression when he decided come back to be successful, he made it following eight principles, recuperated his company took him seven years, but finally he got it and raised of his depression. Richard threw his antidepressants and he became in the person he wished -Richard lost a successful business, and he stopped being successful, but he got all this back. What was the difference between the first time and the second time? The difference is that in the second time Richard realized that success is a continuous journey, because the first time, although was a failed attempt it brought into his life an important lesson. -Explain why Richard says the following phrases Money can’t buy happiness He said that because when he had depression, he had a lot of many money and could buy all he wanted, however it didn’t change anything, he still felt sad and he always had been thinking that money resolved any problem, finally he understood that money is just a shallow thing and it is not true Success isn’t a one-way street He explains success is not a one way, because success isn’t only about to achieve it, also it is knowing how to stay on way to continue our success and hold our projects ahead

GLOSARY Leads up: evento que lleva a, evento que conduce a, precede a Lead: conducer, llevar a, dirigir Go downhill: Ir en pendiente, ir cuesta abajo, ir en declive Figure: Asumir, concluir, suponer Inwardly: Por dentro, interiormente Backed up: Regresaron, respaldaron Altogether: Del todo, completamente, totalmente Coming up: Surgir Stockbroker: Corredor de bolsa Pouring in: LLegar a raudales, llegar a montones, llover