Shadowing Robert Waldinger
What Makes a Good Life? — Slow, calm and easy to follow: the results of the longest study on happiness.
- Level: B1
- Accent: American
- Length: 13 min · 143 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Robert Waldinger — What Makes a Good Life?Start from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:12 What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life?
- 0:18 If you were going to invest now in your future best self, where would you put your time and your energy?
- 0:27 There was a recent survey of millennials asking them what their most important life goals were,
- 0:34 and over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich.
- 0:40 And another 50 percent of those same young adults
- 0:45 said that another major life goal was to become famous.
- 0:52 And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder
- 0:58 and achieve more.
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.