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Speaking Question 4

Now listen to part of a lecture about this topic in a Sociology class.

Professor (male)

This is a true story from my own life. In my first year in high school, I was addicted to video games. I played them all the time and I wasn’t studying enough. I was failing Chemistry that was my hardest class. So this was a conflict for me because I wanted a good job when I grew up and I believed, I knew, that if you want a good career you gotta do well in school. But I just couldn’t give up video games! I was completely torn. And my solution was to change my perspective. See, the only class I was doing really badly in was Chemistry. In the others, I was OK. So I asked myself if I wanted to be a sociologist. So I told myself my chemistry class didn’t matter, because sociologist don’t need to know chemistry. In other words, I changed my understanding of what it meant to do well in school. I reinterpreted my situation.

I used to think that doing well in school meant doing well in all my classes. But now I decided that succeeding in school meant only doing well in the classes that related directly to my future career. I eliminated the conflict, at least in my mind.