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Dear email,
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Do you ever feel unsure of yourself, at work or in your private life? Do you wonder: Can I do it? Will I succeed? I’m a pretty confident person and know, after weighing the pros and cons of a challenge put to me, realistically if I can or cannot. Usually, I’m up for it and face the challenge. A lack of confidence, however, can be stifling to many people and hinder them in achieving their potential. But we’re here to help! Below, we have an article for you with 10 tips to boost self-confidence. You can do it! You can also read about someone who must be abundantly confident – Dr. David Nott, a British surgeon who works on the front lines of wars.
Next week, my colleague Inez Sharp will be back with some more entertaining stories for you.
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Judith Gilbert
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Editor-in-chief, Business Spotlight
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pretty: hier: ziemlich | confident: selbstsicher, selbstbewusst | weigh sth.: etw. abwägen | the pros and cons of sth.: die Vor- und Nachteile von etw. | up for it (be ~): dafür zu haben sein | face sth.: sich etw. stellen | stifling: erdrückend | hinder sb. in doing sth.: jmdn. daran hindern, etw. zu tun | boost sth.: etw. fördern, ankurbeln | self-confidence: Selbstbewusstsein | abundantly: reichlich, mehr als genügend | surgeon: Chirurg(in)
Note: Judith's editorial is written in US English.
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Word of the Week
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cooked
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Did you know...? In Gen Z slang, “cooked” doesn’t refer to a meal that’s ready to eat – instead, it means being in trouble, in a hopeless situation, or very tired.
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in trouble: in Schwierigkeiten
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Recipe
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Jersey bean crock
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You can’t visit the small Channel island of Jersey without eating a bean crock. This special meaty bean meal is found everywhere, so much so that the locals are known as “Jersey beans”!
Jersey bean crock (serves 3–4)
Ingredients
• 1 pork knuckle
• 500 g mixed dried beans
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 2 (ham) stock cubes
• small bunches of parsley and thyme
• salt
• black pepper
Preparation
Soak the beans all day or overnight in cold water. Pour off the water, rinse the beans and place them in a crock pot. Peel and chop the carrot and onion, and add them to the beans. Add the pork knuckle, stock cubes and herbs, pouring in enough boiling water to cover everything.
Cook in a hot oven (200 °C) all day or overnight. Before serving, transfer the pork knuckle to a plate and remove the meat, then put the meat back in the crock. Add salt and black pepper to taste.
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pork knuckle: Schweinshaxe | stock cube: Brühwürfel | bunch: Bund | parsley: Petersilie | thyme: Thymian | soak sth.: etw. einweichen | rinse sth.: etw. abspülen | crock pot: Schmortopf | peel sth.: etw. schälen | chop sth.: etw. klein hacken | to taste: nach Geschmack, nach Belieben
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© Image: Kathrin Koschitzki
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Language
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Getting older
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Ageing: it’s something that happens to us all. First, a few wrinkles, then, a few grey hairs, a bit of sagging skin around the neck, a liver spot on your hand. You need reading glasses and then varifocals. Practise talking about getting older with our vocabulary exercises!
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liver spot: Leberfleck | varifocals: Gleitsichtbrille
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© Image: Martin Haake
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Quiz
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High achievers
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1. The oldest person to scale Mount Everest was _____.
A) 59
B) 70
C) 80
2. The oldest person to skydive was _____.
A) 98
B) 102
C) 104
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scale sth.: etw. besteigen, ersteigen | skydive: Fallschirm springen
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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| Answers: 1. B) and C) In 2003 Yuichiro Miura was the oldest person to climb Everest and 10 years later he broke his own record; 2. C) American Dorothy Hoffner completed a dive from 4,100 metres.
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Leadership
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10 tips to boost self-confidence
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Do you want to improve how you come across at work? With our 10 tips, you’ll be impressing your colleagues in no time!
As a special gift, our newsletter subscribers can read the online version of the article for free – but only for a week!
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come across: auf andere wirken | subscriber: Abonnent(in)
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© Image: Georg Lechner
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Anzeige
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5 Impulse für den gelungenen Neustart
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Im kostenlosen E-Mail-Kurs der ZEIT Akademie lernen Sie, mit neuem Mut und frischer Motivation in Ihren nächsten Lebensabschnitt zu starten – egal ob Jobwechsel, Umzug, Trennung oder Ruhestand.
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© Bild: ZEIT Akademie
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Profile
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The war doctor
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Doing surgery is difficult and stressful at the best of times. How much harder must it be in an active war zone? British surgeon David Nott has worked in some of the most dangerous conflicts around the world – including in Africa, Syria and Ukraine.
Nott has saved countless lives and, at times, put his own life in danger. He was shot at in Sarajevo, for example, and operated on a young girl in Gaza while the hospital was being bombed. In 2015, he started the Nott Foundation, which gives doctors and nurses training for war zones. He was among the first foreign doctors to travel to eastern Ukraine, providing treatment and training.
War causes horrific physical injuries that civilian doctors rarely see. However, not all injuries are visible. Being on the front line exposes doctors and nurses to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nott has his own method of dealing with it. “What allows you to get over it is being active,” he told the Financial Times. “PTSD is like going through hell, but you’ve just got to keep going ... When people around you are saying you’ve got to have a break, no – keep going!”
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surgery: Operation, chirurgischer Eingriff | surgeon: Chirurg(in) | foundation: Stiftung | injury: Verletzung | civilian: nichtmilitärisch | post-traumatic stress disorder: posttraumatische Belastungsstörung
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© Image: picture alliance
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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How we see the Germans
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What international business partners think of working with you | 10 tips to boost self-confidence | The cost of being single
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Quiz
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Europe
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How much do you know about Europe? It’s an incredibly diverse continent, with over 200 spoken languages. Test your knowledge in our fun quiz!
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© Image: Christian Lue / Unsplash.com
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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International Polar Bear Day
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International Polar Bear Day is held annually on 27 February to raise awareness of the threat that climate change poses to the habitat of the largest land-based predators. Did you know that these animals have their own 'prison' in Canada?
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© Image: Jana Trampert
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Mitarbeit: Dennis Draber, Judith Gilbert, Susanne Krause, Mae McCreary, Richard Mote, Rachel Preece, Inez Sharp.
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