Shadowing Angela Lee Duckworth
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance — Only six minutes long, clear and steady: an easy full talk to finish in one week.
- Level: B1
- Accent: American
- Length: 6 min · 73 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Angela Lee Duckworth — Grit: The Power of Passion and PerseveranceStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:00 Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast
- 0:12 When I was 27 years old,
- 0:14 I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching.
- 0:23 I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
- 0:28 And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests.
- 0:31 I gave out homework assignments.
- 0:33 When the work came back, I calculated grades.
- 0:36 What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.
How to practise this talk
- Press a line from the list; it opens in Sada ready to go.
- Listen once, then press Record and say it with the speaker (Shadow) or after them (Repeat).
- Open Compare to see every word, and go again until they are all green.
- Finish one minute a day, and Sada shows your first try against your latest.