Shadowing Simon Sinek
How Great Leaders Inspire Action — The famous "Start with Why" talk: confident, persuasive speech with strong emphasis on key words.
- Level: B2
- Accent: British/American
- Length: 19 min · 243 lines to practise
Simon Sinek — How Great Leaders Inspire ActionStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:16 How do you explain when things don't go as we assume?
- 0:20 Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions?
- 0:27 For example: Why is Apple so innovative?
- 0:31 Year after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition.
- 0:36 And yet, they're just a computer company.
- 0:38 They're just like everyone else.
- 0:40 They have the same access to the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media.
- 0:45 Then why is it that they seem to have something different?
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.