The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event
2.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, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant." (Laughter) And I was like, "Okay." And she said, "But the thing I liked about your talk is you're a storyteller
3.So I think what I'll do is just call you a storyteller." And of course, the academic, insecure part of me was like, "You're going to call me a what?" And she said, "I'm going to call you a storyteller." And I was like, "Why not 'magic pixie'?" (Laughter) I was like, "Let me think about this for a second." I tried to call deep on my courage
4.And I thought, you know, I am a storyteller
5.I'm a qualitative researcher
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B1)
interested
B1To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
Example:
"because I am interested in some messy topics."
recommendations
B2An act of recommending.
Example:
"Do you have any recommendations?""
childhood
B1The state of being a child.
Example:
"And I said, "But here's the thing: no family stuff, no childhood shit.""
tenderness
B2A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
Example:
"that, when they realize that vulnerability and tenderness are important,"
described
B1To represent in words.
Example:
"You know how blame is described in the research?"
passionately
B2In a passionate manner.
Example:
"Can I believe in this this passionately?"
situation
B2The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
Example:
"Well, you know that situation"
interviewed
B2To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
Example:
"and what it was is that, if I roughly took the people I interviewed"
separated
B1To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Example:
"There was only one variable that separated"
relationship
B2Connection or association; the condition of being related.
Example:
"They're willing to invest in a relationship"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| interested | B1 | To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. |
| recommendations | B2 | An act of recommending. |
| childhood | B1 | The state of being a child. |
| tenderness | B2 | A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings |
| described | B1 | To represent in words. |
| passionately | B2 | In a passionate manner. |
| situation | B2 | The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs. |
| interviewed | B2 | To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview. |
| separated | B1 | To divide (a thing) into separate parts. |
| relationship | B2 | Connection or association; the condition of being related. |
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