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in this video we'll be talking about
about the 2005 commencement address
address this is the graduation speech
speech given by steve jobs at Stanford
Stanford University let's
let's get into it for a bit of background
background at this graduation speech
speech steve jobs is delivering three
three stories that really help people
people understand how he developed
developed and how he came to see the
the world and so he really as most
most people do at graduation speeches
speeches really want to impress upon
upon all of the graduates that they
they should maybe think about the
the world in a different way and not
not waste their time so the overall
overall themes of his message is you
you really don't want to you know
know listen to other people if you
you think you have a right idea about
about how to do something you should
should listen to your heart don't
don't waste your time and find your
your own path so
so listen to what's important for
for you and do that thing in this
this video though we want to focus
focus specifically on six phrasal
phrasal verbs that he uses and a phrasal
phrasal verb is just a more kind of
of basic way of explaining a more
more difficult regular
regular verb maybe something that
that would be like to dismount a horse
horse would be to get off of a horse
horse
horse so
so we're trying to take something
something complicated and express
express it in a casual way so
so even though a commencement address
address might be a serious kind of
of thing for people really
really we're still using casual and
and everyday language to express ourselves
ourselves
ourselves so
so let's get into these six phrasal
phrasal verbs that Steve Jobs uses
uses the first two are connected one
one is to drop out and the other is
is to drop in now
now if you think about going to school
school you can leave school you can
can exit school these are regular
regular verbs you can use but in a
a casual conversation away you can
can talk about dropping out of school
school so think about dropping but
but you're falling out of that thing
thing so instead of being in school
school you're dropping out of it it's
it's always important to think about
about the visual foundation of a phrasal
phrasal verb so the visual idea of
of falling but falling out of something
something to drop out of something
something so if you're going to school
school and you decide no I don't want
want to go anymore like Steve Jobs
Jobs did then you are dropping out
out of school now he also uses in
in addition to drop out he uses drop
drop in as well to drop into something
something means you're going into
into something or you're entering
entering something in an unexpected
unexpected way so
so he's talking about after he dropped
dropped out of school he's
he's dropping in again going to other
other classes that he feels like going
going to instead of going to the classes
classes that he has to go to so if
if you drop in on a friend or you
you drop in on a class it
it just means you're going into that
that thing in an unexpected way to
to drop out and then to drop in next
next we've got to fall out to fall
fall out when you have a falling out
out of something if you think about
about a relationship being two people
people or a group of people together
together when they fall apart or they
they fall out usually
usually you have a falling out when
when you talk about having a bad relationship
relationship with someone as an example
example if you have a business partner
partner and maybe it's going very
very well at the beginning but it
it starts to maybe not go so well
well and you have different ideas
ideas about how something should be
be done this is a falling out so you
you can describe a bad business relationship
relationship in the same way that
that Steve Jobs does in the commencement
commencement speech as having a falling
falling out so you can talk about
about well maybe my friend and I we
we don't have much of a relationship
relationship anymore we had a falling
falling out or we fell out we
we fell out next another great phrasal
phrasal verb to side with someone
someone to side with someone if you
you are thinking about having an argument
argument or there's a fight or a competition
competition between two people or
or two groups there are two different
different sides so usually in an argument
argument one person says this thing
thing and the other person says the
the opposite or whatever that is and
and if you choose one of the sides
sides then you are siding with that
that person or siding with that team
team
team something
something like that so maybe my mom
mom says one thing but my dad says
says something else and i decided
decided to side with my mom so it
it means I support her and I support
support her argument or whatever as
as opposed to my father's so I'm siding
siding with her on this particular
particular thing in a company situation
situation may be with side with a
a particular board member or a particular
particular group that has an idea
idea that they want to pursue to side
side with someone or to side with
with something next to let someone
someone down the phrasal verb to let
let down if you think about someone
someone that's being held up this
this is the opposite phrasal verb
verb to hold someone up when you let
let someone down it means you're disappointing
disappointing them so just like regular
regular phrasal verbs we
we have a longer more complex word
word like disappoint but we're using
using to let someone down so it means
means if you're making someone feel
feel bad they're disappointed in you
you because you did something wrong
wrong or you know whatever you happen
happen to have done let's
let's say in my case I was living
living at home and I maybe stole a
a car or something in my parents were
were very upset at me they
they can see you know drew you let
let us down you disappointed us you
you let us down and the last phrasal
phrasal verb is to screw up something
something whenever you make a mistake
mistake or there's something wrong
wrong that happens you can talk about
about screwing up the situation so
so I went to make an airplane reservation
reservation or something and then
then I went to the airport and then
then I screwed up I
I picked the wrong day for my flight
flight so when I went to America for
for example my cousin was picking
picking me up at the airport but he
he picked me up on the wrong day so
so he went to the airport and I he
he screwed up so he made a mistake
mistake he made some kind of accident
accident or did something wrong to
to screw up so
so when steve jobs is talking about
about well maybe I screwed up my life
life for screwed up my company this
this is again a regular conversation
conversation a way of saying that
that you made a mistake to screw up
up
up well
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2005 stanford university commencement
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