I wasn’t born in a wealthy family and so I am not familiar with greed. We’re used to sharing all our stuff with each other. Our parents have taught us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps not by taking a credit or flipping a coin. Now I am not a well off person but l’ve got all stuff for a happy and self-sufficient life!
VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “The psychology of greed ⏲ 6 Minute English” 1. Greedy: having or showing a selfish desire to have more of something (such as money or food) :having greed 2. Unconscious: not awake especially because of an injury, drug, etc. 3. Inevitably: certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented 4. Privilege: [count] :a right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others 5. Stuff : (informal) material objects and possessions 6. Take credit (for something) : accept praise and recognition given for doing something good, whether or not you deserve it 7. The flip of a coin : something based on luck or random chance, such as when flipping a coin into the air to see whether it lands heads-side or tails-side up 8. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : improve your situation through your own efforts, without help from anyone else 9. Well-off : rich enough to be able to have most of what you want 10. Empathy : ability to experience someone else’s feelings by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation. 19/01/2024 VIETNAM ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^
#HumanRights The BBC Learning English is doing great job . I think greed is going to grasp this world very soon . Because greed has already taken an important place in this materialistic world . And greed has become a COMPETITION in this age of internet and social media . Thanks a lot !
This has been a legacy for me from my father .He acheived everything by his efforts not by taking credit for sth he didn't deserve that. I have the same condition. But i haven’t had the chance to achieve anything with the flip of the coin .therefore i have pulled up myself by my own bootstrap. Not by chance .
BBC learning english club more effected improving my english world. Greed is our enemy. In uzbek people hate greed. Because it reached to decrease. This emotion of uzbeks.
Showing empathy is the most precious. At the same time, heping is just a thing to help someone who are in danger or having a problem. Greedy help or being gold digger is to be spoiled in.
I believe that, without exaggerating, greed can be functional for our life. The desire of own many expensive stuffs permits us to improve continuously our performance and raise the bar. Certainly, if we exaggerate the risk is that losing our emphaty and getting away from other people
Well off people often have a lot of stuff and are more independent. However, their empathy might suffer because they lack social relations. People not born into wealthy families can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, not by flipping a coin or taking credit for something then didn't do, and become rich enough to have a good and happy life.
@@bbclearningenglish Greed will cause corruption for sure. A government with corrupted officials can hardly function well as the officials like to put their very own interests ahead of others. For instance, they can carry out a lot of so-called studies on certain social issues but never get anything done.
N: I'm writing my birthday wishlist, Beth. Listen, I want a new laptop, a gold Rolex watch and a red sports car. B: Phew, that is quite a lot, Neil. Isn't that a bit greedy? N: So what? Greed is good. We're genetically built to want things that increase our social status, power, and material possessions like money, a nice house, a fast car, or that stuff. B: Hmm, I'm not sure, Neil. Remember, greed is also one of the seven deadly sins. N: In this program, We'll discover greed - the desire to accumulate stuff, keep it for yourself, and not share it with others. And of course, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. But first, I have a question for you Beth. You reminded me of a famous quote by one of the history's greatest leaders: "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed." But who said it? -> Guess: Mahatma Gandhi N: At the neurological level, greed is control by the reward center of the brain. Greedy people feel good when they choose the stuff they want. And this happens at the unconscious emotional level of the brain, meaning there's little conscious awareness about how greedy actions might affect others or be unfair. B: But what does this look like in real life? -> That's what psychologist, Prof. Paul Piff investigated using the classic family boardgame, Monopoly. The game was *ricked* -> "rigged" to give one rich player an advantage by letting them roll two dices instead of one and collecting twice as much money as the poor player when passing Go. N: So what happened when Prof.Piff asked the rich player why they had inevitably won the fixed game. Listen to the answer he gave to BBC 4 Programme: Seven deadly psychologies. Prof. Piff: They took credit for their wins. They talked about how they controlled their own outcomes, they talked about how it was the decision they made that have led to their being ultimately victorious, and not that flip of a coin that randomly got them into that position of privilege in the first place. Now I don't know if this is a perfect model for how privilege, success, or wealth operates in everyday life. Some people indeed, have worked themselves up by the bootstraps and get what they have because they work hard. B: Interestingly, the rich player took credit for winning. If you take credit for something, you accept praise and recognition for doing something. Whether or not that praise and recognition is deserved. N: In fact, it was the fixed game which determined who would win and lose, not anything the players did. Prof.Piff uses the expression "the flip of a coin" which describes something based solely on random chance, like when you flip a coin into the air, whether it lands on head or tail, it's pure luck. B: The winning players claim they won thanks to their own skill and ability. Here, Prof.Piff uses another idiom - to pull yourself up by your bootstraps - meaning to improve your situation through your own hard work, without help from anyone else. N: Worryingly, the experiment shows how feeling financially better off than others can easily changed into feeling better than others. And the reason behind these feelings could be what money buys you, esp. one thing, space. B: If you're rich, you're in a big house. At work, you have your own spacious office. You live in your own private bubble. Prof. Piff: People who are well-off are just more socially independent. They don't need others in their lives as much. And we don't need others. Well, your empathy might suffer as a result. N: People who are well-off and rich enough to do what they want rely on other people less. As a result, they might lack empathy, the ability to share someone else's feelings by imagining what it would be like to be them. B: Maybe it's not greed itself that's bad, but the things we're greedy for. Being greedy for social justice, or a clean environment is good, right, something to be admired by the world leader in your questions, Neil.
Thanks, BBC for showing different topics and explaining in detail regarding vocabulary related to them BTW sometimes is tough to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps in a world where it demands rapid results and taking credit or giving them props
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I see nothing wrong with wanting to own a nice flat, a decent car, a good job and being moderately well-off if I am qualified or I worked hard to get at It Maybe I am wrong...
In the hardly to swallow way of getting credit for something incredible with a stage of becoming well of, you don't have to forget about emphasis toward others and what they invested in you. If you are well off with your financials without debts that you can call yourself either rich or a wealthy individual. Speaking of stuff, you don't need to have many material possessions for staying satisfied with your well-known position in life. Before taking credit for something, remember what the other sacrificed for you towards your both successful and impactful path. Getting a superb grade in the exam is a fifty percent amount of both work and efforts, additionally, others fifty percent is a flip of a coin with particularly lucky questions. You have to pull yourself up when nobody believes in you and stay undeniably motivated with having mouth shut. Feeling of emphasis shows that you are a profoundly cordial person without a fixed selfish mindset with judging others issues.
We have one joke: "One man tells others about how he became a rich man. He was a poor man, bought one apple for 1$, washed it and sold it for 2$. And he did these actions many times. And then his uncle who was a very rich man, died and left him an inheritance"
I think greed is selfish way of life. You cannot feel happier until you give more than you take. I admire the millionaire like Bill Gate and others who promise to put most of their assets into charity fund after death. They are so great
I read and listened this content carefully.But I don't know the relation between "greed" and the game. The game only says how the rich take the credit for their wins.Is it something about greedy?
One of the best episodes I've seen. ----------- What one has -> has been given one therefore everything one has -> one is entitled to. The more one has -> the better one is -> because the more one has been rewarded -> for being good.. Therefore I get better and better through 'making' more and more a - the more I make b - the more I have c - the better I am d - the more I am a b c d a c, b d a d etc etc. (from Knots, by Roland Laing) -------- Milei, the Robin Hood of the deficionados aficionados, is pretending to save the world from the assaults by those that inhibit the pie-growing greediness. Hasta la deficiencia, siempre! !Viva la revolucion de los pobres locos! !Avarismo o muerte!
Bull in a china shop. I think that it is used to describe someone how is clumsy. Knowing that a china shop is usually narrow, we can easily drop something, how about a bull in there 😮😂😅
I wasn’t born in a wealthy family and so I am not familiar with greed. We’re used to sharing all our stuff with each other. Our parents have taught us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps not by taking a credit or flipping a coin. Now I am not a well off person but l’ve got all stuff for a happy and self-sufficient life!
I really liked ur answers it is just awesome ❤
VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “The psychology of greed ⏲ 6 Minute English”
1. Greedy: having or showing a selfish desire to have more of something (such as money or food) :having greed
2. Unconscious: not awake especially because of an injury, drug, etc.
3. Inevitably: certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
4. Privilege: [count] :a right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others
5. Stuff : (informal) material objects and possessions
6. Take credit (for something) : accept praise and recognition given for doing something good, whether or not you deserve it
7. The flip of a coin : something based on luck or random chance, such as when flipping a coin into the air to see whether it lands heads-side or tails-side up
8. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : improve your situation through your own efforts, without help from anyone else
9. Well-off : rich enough to be able to have most of what you want
10. Empathy : ability to experience someone else’s feelings by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation.
19/01/2024 VIETNAM
ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^
Awesome! I appreciate it.
Thanks a lot for detail explanation and expending the vocabulary.
Well! Thanks for ur description😊
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BBC learning english and Ted talks are great resources to improve English. Thanks BBC 😊
#HumanRights The BBC Learning English is doing great job . I think greed is going to grasp this world very soon . Because greed has already taken an important place in this materialistic world . And greed has become a COMPETITION in this age of internet and social media . Thanks a lot !
This has been a legacy for me from my father .He acheived everything by his efforts not by taking credit for sth he didn't deserve that. I have the same condition. But i haven’t had the chance to achieve anything with the flip of the coin .therefore i have pulled up myself by my own bootstrap. Not by chance .
BBC learning english club more effected improving my english world. Greed is our enemy. In uzbek people hate greed. Because it reached to decrease. This emotion of uzbeks.
Showing empathy is the most precious. At the same time, heping is just a thing to help someone who are in danger or having a problem. Greedy help or being gold digger is to be spoiled in.
I believe that, without exaggerating, greed can be functional for our life. The desire of own many expensive stuffs permits us to improve continuously our performance and raise the bar. Certainly, if we exaggerate the risk is that losing our emphaty and getting away from other people
All of your videos are such an important lesson that we should have been taught at school❤
Well off people often have a lot of stuff and are more independent. However, their empathy might suffer because they lack social relations. People not born into wealthy families can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, not by flipping a coin or taking credit for something then didn't do, and become rich enough to have a good and happy life.
😊😊 You used the new words and expressions really well! Great answer 👏
Is the content related with "greed"?I don't know.
Thank you BBC for your kindness ❤
The world certainly needs more empathy instead of greed. Thank you so much for this podcast!
What problems do you think greed can cause?
@@bbclearningenglish Greed will cause corruption for sure. A government with corrupted officials can hardly function well as the officials like to put their very own interests ahead of others. For instance, they can carry out a lot of so-called studies on certain social issues but never get anything done.
In internet era, we reveive too much data in our daily life, which can be exausting and of no benefit to our brain.@@bbclearningenglish
World needs more common sence rather then empathy
Another excellent job Beth and Neil. Love BBCLE crew
Thanks for your podcast. You are give good information for everyone
Thank you for listening! 🥰
N: I'm writing my birthday wishlist, Beth. Listen, I want a new laptop, a gold Rolex watch and a red sports car.
B: Phew, that is quite a lot, Neil. Isn't that a bit greedy?
N: So what? Greed is good. We're genetically built to want things that increase our social status, power, and material possessions like money, a nice house, a fast car, or that stuff.
B: Hmm, I'm not sure, Neil. Remember, greed is also one of the seven deadly sins.
N: In this program, We'll discover greed - the desire to accumulate stuff, keep it for yourself, and not share it with others. And of course, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. But first, I have a question for you Beth. You reminded me of a famous quote by one of the history's greatest leaders: "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed." But who said it? -> Guess: Mahatma Gandhi
N: At the neurological level, greed is control by the reward center of the brain. Greedy people feel good when they choose the stuff they want. And this happens at the unconscious emotional level of the brain, meaning there's little conscious awareness about how greedy actions might affect others or be unfair.
B: But what does this look like in real life? -> That's what psychologist, Prof. Paul Piff investigated using the classic family boardgame, Monopoly. The game was *ricked* -> "rigged" to give one rich player an advantage by letting them roll two dices instead of one and collecting twice as much money as the poor player when passing Go.
N: So what happened when Prof.Piff asked the rich player why they had inevitably won the fixed game. Listen to the answer he gave to BBC 4 Programme: Seven deadly psychologies.
Prof. Piff: They took credit for their wins. They talked about how they controlled their own outcomes, they talked about how it was the decision they made that have led to their being ultimately victorious, and not that flip of a coin that randomly got them into that position of privilege in the first place. Now I don't know if this is a perfect model for how privilege, success, or wealth operates in everyday life. Some people indeed, have worked themselves up by the bootstraps and get what they have because they work hard.
B: Interestingly, the rich player took credit for winning. If you take credit for something, you accept praise and recognition for doing something. Whether or not that praise and recognition is deserved.
N: In fact, it was the fixed game which determined who would win and lose, not anything the players did. Prof.Piff uses the expression "the flip of a coin" which describes something based solely on random chance, like when you flip a coin into the air, whether it lands on head or tail, it's pure luck.
B: The winning players claim they won thanks to their own skill and ability. Here, Prof.Piff uses another idiom - to pull yourself up by your bootstraps - meaning to improve your situation through your own hard work, without help from anyone else.
N: Worryingly, the experiment shows how feeling financially better off than others can easily changed into feeling better than others. And the reason behind these feelings could be what money buys you, esp. one thing, space.
B: If you're rich, you're in a big house. At work, you have your own spacious office. You live in your own private bubble.
Prof. Piff: People who are well-off are just more socially independent. They don't need others in their lives as much. And we don't need others. Well, your empathy might suffer as a result.
N: People who are well-off and rich enough to do what they want rely on other people less. As a result, they might lack empathy, the ability to share someone else's feelings by imagining what it would be like to be them.
B: Maybe it's not greed itself that's bad, but the things we're greedy for. Being greedy for social justice, or a clean environment is good, right, something to be admired by the world leader in your questions, Neil.
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For me to learn English better is to practice it with a friend.
Great episode! Thank you!
Thank you for learning English with us 😊
When we do practise that we can achieve. Always practise effected us be stronger.
Sometimes life is more than what you have. Life is what you take emotionally. ( not sure whether I express the thought correctly )
We completely understand what you mean 😊
Thanks, BBC for showing different topics and explaining in detail regarding vocabulary related to them BTW sometimes is tough to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps in a world where it demands rapid results and taking credit or giving them props
***Learner suggestion to BBC Learning English**
I have started to collect Vocabulary from 6minute English, and for that I just copy and past vocabulary from the description for frequent practice. I think it will be so beneficial if we get example sentences along with the vocabulary.
Thank you so much!
As a 2024 vocabulary Goal. Thanks
😃 Thank you for your feedback! For now, you can find examples in the transcript itself 👍
@@bbclearningenglish Thanks a lot! 💕🥰
Thanks BBC Learning English...🙏
Thank you a lot for the enlightening dialogue and new phrases.
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1. Flip of a coin
2. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
3. Well off
4. Empathy
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Your videos are always useful and I liked the moon video it is so interesting.
If you enjoyed this, listen to another episode of 6 minute English about money here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6-minute-english/ep-190711
Wonderful lesson today thank you
Thank you for studying with us 🥰
I see nothing wrong with wanting to own a nice flat, a decent car, a good job and being moderately well-off if I am qualified or I worked hard to get at It
Maybe I am wrong...
Learning English here is very interesting.
We're glad to have you with us 😊
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It is an amazing video.❤
Thank you so much the psychology of greed and b b word learn english
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My favorite couple out here
Thank u for great vd
Interesting lesson! Thank you!!
Please more discussings about social media and eating habit or chat ai❤
The final aim of people is to be happy, greed gives them happiness.
In the hardly to swallow way of getting credit for something incredible with a stage of becoming well of, you don't have to forget about emphasis toward others and what they invested in you.
If you are well off with your financials without debts that you can call yourself either rich or a wealthy individual.
Speaking of stuff, you don't need to have many material possessions for staying satisfied with your well-known position in life.
Before taking credit for something, remember what the other sacrificed for you towards your both successful and impactful path.
Getting a superb grade in the exam is a fifty percent amount of both work and efforts, additionally, others fifty percent is a flip of a coin with particularly lucky questions.
You have to pull yourself up when nobody believes in you and stay undeniably motivated with having mouth shut.
Feeling of emphasis shows that you are a profoundly cordial person without a fixed selfish mindset with judging others issues.
We have one joke: "One man tells others about how he became a rich man. He was a poor man, bought one apple for 1$, washed it and sold it for 2$. And he did these actions many times. And then his uncle who was a very rich man, died and left him an inheritance"
Very interesting 🤔
I think greed is selfish way of life. You cannot feel happier until you give more than you take. I admire the millionaire like Bill Gate and others who promise to put most of their assets into charity fund after death. They are so great
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It's better to write The vocabulary on the video so we can memorize it❤
I read and listened this content carefully.But I don't know the relation between "greed" and the game. The game only says how the rich take the credit for their wins.Is it something about greedy?
Nice video👍
Thanks a lot for the lesson! You are awesome! ❤
Don't forget, you can find more lessons like this one here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english
One of the best episodes I've seen.
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What one has -> has been given one
therefore everything one has -> one is entitled to.
The more one has -> the better one is -> because the more one has been rewarded -> for being good..
Therefore I get better and better through 'making' more and more
a - the more I make
b - the more I have
c - the better I am
d - the more I am
a b c d
a c, b d
a d
etc etc.
(from Knots, by Roland Laing)
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Milei, the Robin Hood of the deficionados aficionados, is pretending to save the world from the assaults by those that inhibit the pie-growing greediness.
Hasta la deficiencia, siempre!
!Viva la revolucion de los pobres locos!
!Avarismo o muerte!
Thanks
Thanks❤
When is your birthday, Neil? I can send you a few emojis of the things on your birthday wishlist!💻⌚🏎
Bro today is my birthday please send me 😂
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Hey, where I can find the 6-question quizz that used to be either on the the website or the app? Thank you
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Well off people always think how again find wealth. Them aim is always earn the money. Even so sometimes something effected then they will changed.
To pull sb up by his bootstraps = to work your way up?
👍 Yes, to succeed without any help, just your own hard work!
@@bbclearningenglish gr8 thanx 😊👍
And how about this:
To roll up your sleeves = to work your way up ?
I couldn't reach a page, could you send me again?
Apologies, the link should be www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2024/ep-240118 - we have now changed this on the page.
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I think this episode is a bit difficult to uderstand, any one agree with me?
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Bull in a china shop. I think that it is used to describe someone how is clumsy. Knowing that a china shop is usually narrow, we can easily drop something, how about a bull in there 😮😂😅
👍 That's right!
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Well-off people focus on task-oriented more than people-oriented.
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