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STUDENTS’ BOOK· AUDIO SCRIPTS throughout the book is pick up on these T: What’s that? UNIT 7 Recording 1 little things that we really need to go J: Blocking? It’s where you stand or move P = Presenter I = Ian back and look at again if we are to really to, y’know? Like, when you say your words understand why successful people are as you might have to walk quickly across the P: Hello and welcome back to the Focus successful as they are. stage. Or move in front of someone. It’s all podcast. I’m Jenny Osmond, the editor of P: I think the 10,000 hours magic number planned and er, you have to remember it. Focus, the monthly science and technology is really interesting because, as you know, T: Oh, I see. magazine from the BBC. I used to play tennis professionally, and J: But it’s funny: for, for other things I have He’s the hugely influential author of Blink I hit a load of tennis balls when I was a terrible memory. I’m totally useless. I and the Tipping Point. His work is quoted younger. And I’m sure, I must have done always forget birthdays and dates. I’m always by academics, presidents and your mates 10,000 hours’ worth, you know, I must late for things. It’s just … yeah … luckily, I’m down the pub. And now Malcolm Gladwell have done four hours a day, and stuff. OK with my lines. has turned that deft mind of his to a new And I remember speaking to Martina P: What about you, Tim? subject: the science of success. In his new Hingis’ mum about why she thought her T: I’m probably the same as all other book, The Outliers, Gladwell argues that if kid was so good, and such a prodigy, and students. At least all other history students. we want to be successful, we should think she basically said, ‘My daughter has been I have to memorise dates and also names. But it’s not that difficult because you read less about what successful people are like, hitting tennis balls since the age of three about them so much you can’t really forget and more about where they have come and she has hit X number of tennis balls them. But for other things I have a really from and the opportunities they have had for X number of hours and it’s, you know, bad memory. I can never remember jokes along the way. Now, Ian’s read the book I’m sure she’s … So once you’re over that or films. Sometimes I’m watching a film and and he joins me. Now … his new book is magic number of 10,000 … yeah. after an hour I realise I’ve seen it already. looking at success … I: The same goes for people like I’m completely hopeless like that. I: Yes, and what he says is, erm, that if Beethoven, erm … It’s incredible how … J: Oh, me too … we think about somebody like Bill Gates, P: But at the end of the day you have to hugely successful person, and we want to have talent. UNIT 7 Recording 5 learn from, from his achievements, then I: You’ve got to have raw talent, you’ve got what do we look at? We look at what that to have belief in what you can do, and you M = Man W = Woman man is like, you know, what drives him, have to have the will to put those hours in M: It’s interesting: one of the most what does he do on a day-to-day basis, … but you also need the opportunity. intelligent people I know is a ten-year-old how can we be more like him? Erm … But boy from Egypt. He doesn’t go to school what Gladwell argues in the new book is, UNIT 7 Recording 4 and he works on a street in Cairo, in one is that we should pay less attention to that of the touristy areas. And he sells things side of stuff, and look at where Bill Gates T = Tim J = John P = Peggy like small statues of the pyramids, things came from. So, how did he get to where T: So what about your memory, Peggy? like that, to tourists. Now, the reason I he got to, the opportunities he had along How good is it? say he’s intelligent is that he can sell you the way. Erm … And what he says is that P: It’s OK, which is lucky ’cos I need to something in about fifteen languages. I Bill Gates has one thing in common with remember lots of things. once spent an afternoon watching him, another group of very successful people, J: Like what? and it was incredible. Most of the time he The Beatles. P: Well, I’m a sales rep for a publishing uses English, but he guesses where you’re P: So, what’s that? company so I’m usually out visiting schools, from by looking at you, and then he starts speaking. He can speak just a little bit of I: Well, they both practised what they do, trying to sell books. French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, and they practised a lot. J: So you need to remember … what etcetera. It’s amazing. He knows just P: Right, so how much is a lot? exactly? enough in all these languages to say hello P: Oh, lots of things. The worst thing when I: A lot is 10,000 hours. That’s like the and sell you something. I started was just trying to remember how magic number if you’re going to become W: How did he learn the languages? to get to these schools in my car. I used world-class at anything in the world, you M: I asked him that and he said he learned to get lost all the time. I’m not very good need to put 10,000 hours’ practice in. them by talking to tourists. at directions. Then once you’re there you P: Oh, OK. W: That is quite amazing. have to remember the names and faces of I: So, The Beatles, they, they were doing M: So anyway, that’s my example. Like I the people you’re talking to. I once spent a said, he doesn’t go to school but, for me, gigs, you know, like all-night gigs in whole hour calling this woman Sally when he’s super-intelligent. What about you? Hamburg, in these little clubs, and just her name was Samantha. W: I can think of loads of people who the number of hours that they put in on T: And she didn’t tell you? the stage, erm, allowed them to master don’t have any qualifications but are able P: For some reason she didn’t tell me. And their craft. And the same with Bill Gates. to do really difficult things. I’ve got a friend, then there’s all the product information. for example, who built his own house. He He, er, as he was growing up, got into J: Product information? What, the books? just taught himself how to do it, bought a computer programming, and through a P: Yes. We sell about five hundred different piece of land, bought the materials and the very fortunate series of events, he was books and I have to know the difference equipment and just did it. No qualifications, able to programme, and programme, and between all of them. I mean, it gets easier, no certificates, no university degree. In programme, erm, and again … thank goodness, but I still make mistakes my view, that’s a real practical kind of P: Because he had access to computers at a occasionally. What about you, John? You’re intelligence. time when these things were developing. an actor, right? M: I couldn’t do that. I: Absolutely! … Exactly! The timing is so, J: Yeah. The main thing I have to remember W: Let me give you another example. I’ve so important. He happened to go to a is my lines. Fortunately, I’ve got a good got another friend who takes parts of old university, erm, where he had access to memory for words, and I don’t find it that cars and makes new cars from them. He er, a computer programming unit. I mean, hard to memorise them. So, I mean, yeah. does it at the weekend as a way to relax. this was back in the 60s and 70s when The other thing you have to remember And the new car actually works! when you’re in the theatre is the blocking. M: I couldn’t do that either. computers were the size of rooms and W: I wouldn’t know where to start. And stuff. Erm, and so what Gladwell does www.cui.edu.ar/Speakout.aspx • Ciclo de Consolidación 3 • © Pearson STUDENTS’ BOOK· AUDIO SCRIPTS this is someone who left school at fifteen Conversation 3 UNIT 8 Recording 2 to do an apprenticeship. But, you know, A: Hi. having said that, I do think qualifications are L = Lynn B: What a day! I’m so tired! useful in some ways. I mean, for one thing, A: I’ll make you some coffee. Put your feet up. they show that you are able to complete L: In real life my husband and I are both a course, that you’re motivated and artists, visual artists.