The power of vulnerability Advanced shadowing lesson
Brené Brown opens her TEDxHouston talk with the story of an event planner who would rather call her a storyteller than a researcher. She then recalls a professor's rule that what you cannot measure does not exist, and explains why she began her research with connection.
What you practise by shadowing it
- Retelling a conversation line by line: And she said, "I'm going to call you a storyteller." And I was like, "Why not 'magic pixie'?"
- A list on an even beat: changed the way that I live and love and work and parent.
- Fixed phrases said as one unit: You know what? There's no such thing. Here's the thing.
- Advanced
- Video
- 3:57
- 58 sentences
Practise it in the app
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
First sentences
So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago,
an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event.
And she called, and she said, "I'm really struggling with how to write about you on the little flyer."
And I thought, "Well, what's the struggle?"
And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think,
The video has 58 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- researcher
- a person whose job is to study things carefully
- storyteller
- a person who tells stories
- perception
- the way you see and understand things
- messy
- untidy and hard to control
- connection
- a close feeling between people
- discomfort
- a feeling of not being at ease
- lean into
- face something hard instead of avoiding it
- here's the thing
- said before the important point
- hack into
- break into a system to see inside
- knock discomfort upside the head
- get rid of the uncomfortable feeling
- clean it up
- make it tidy
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
Brené Brown at TEDxHouston, on YouTube
