AEE 297: Is There a Formula for Originality? Find Out Today!

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Come back and tell us how you want to apply this quote in your life: http://www.allearsenglish.com/297 What is the difference between being original and imitating? What will get you further in life? Today is a Deep Thoughts Thursday so we have a quote: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -Herman Melville What does this mean for English learners? Don’t follow a formula. Be creative with your words. Don’t focus too much on being perfect. Get creative with your tone of voice. Learn different ways to say different things. Check out this episode about the Zone of Genius. Where does this quote resonate with you? Let us know in the comments. We want to hear from you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 297.
0:04.4	Is there a formula for originality?
0:07.8	Find out today.
0:09.8	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 7 million times.
0:16.4	We believe in connection not perfection with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York
0:26.7	Radio Girl, coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA.
0:36.1	Are you original or do you imitate?
0:39.1	Today you'll get some inspiring words
0:41.6	about how to bring more originality into your life.
0:48.5	Hey Michelle, what's going on?
0:50.4	Hey Lindsay, everything's great. How are you? Good. I'm glad to hear it. Glad to hear it. And today I was thinking a little bit about, you know, originality and imitation.
1:03.0	Like what's the, yeah, this is that we're going to go deep today again.
1:06.0	It's a deep thoughts Thursday, so we know our listeners like to go deep, so let's go.
1:11.0	What's the difference between being original and
1:16.0	imitating? Oh okay so being original is like being like very unique like
1:21.3	having your own personality your own way of doing something whether it's in your art or
1:28.0	You know or your personality or anything like that where as imitation is like mimicking you do the same thing as somebody else.
1:36.0	I know and I think it's so ironic that you know popular culture at least in the U.S.
1:41.0	often teaches us you know know, for example,
1:43.2	school, like going to school doing standardized tests.
1:46.8	It often teaches us to imitate, right,
1:49.1	to just learn the formula, pass the test,
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