How great leaders inspire action Advanced shadowing lesson
Simon Sinek asks why Apple, Martin Luther King and the Wright brothers did what others with the same chances could not. His answer is the golden circle: most of us explain what we do, while inspiring leaders start with why.
What you practise by shadowing it
- Questions that fall at the end: Then why is it that they seem to have something different? Why him?
- Lists and repeats on an even beat: the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media.
- Stress on the words he sets against each other: what they do, how they do it, why they do what they do.
- Advanced
- Video
- 3:59
- 54 sentences
Practise it in the app
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
First sentences
How do you explain when things don't go as we assume?
Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things,
that seem to defy all of the assumptions?
For example: Why is Apple so innovative?
Year after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition.
The video has 54 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- leader
- a person who guides a group
- organization
- a company or group of people working together
- innovative
- using new ideas and ways
- communicate
- share ideas and information
- achieve
- succeed in doing something
- as it turns out
- as people later find out
- figure out
- find the answer or the way
- every single
- each one, with no exception
- and yet
- but still
- at play
- working; having an effect
- beat them to it
- do it before them
How to practise this clip
- Listen for the rhythm: which words are strong and where the speaker breathes.
- Say each sentence at the speaker's speed, as one smooth phrase.
- Score your tries to see which words did not come through, then practise those sentences again.
Want to practise every day? See the 15-minute routine.
Source
Simon Sinek at TEDxPuget Sound, on YouTube
