Kaizen Vocabulary Text
Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "The Kaizen Way." Are you smiling? Big smile,
remember. Body up, shoulders back. Big smile, make it bigger, come on, a huge grin.
Look stupid. Look silly. What about your body? Start moving it. If you're sitting in a
car, if you're sitting in a train, you know you can just move your legs around a little bit.
People look at you and think you're strange, it's okay. Hopefully you have a chance,
you're out walking. Get that iPod in your ears. Move your body. Energy, get some
energy in your body. We're going to learn some English. Are you ready? Let's go.
Vocabulary for "The Kaizen Way."
Our first word from this article from this lesson is zinger, a zinger. Now a zinger is a
surprise or a shock. So in the article, it came from the phrase "You want to come up
with a zinger of a solution to an office problem." So a zinger of a solution means a
surprise or a shock of a solution. It means a solution that is surprising, in a good way
here, of course, it can be negative. Zingers can sometimes be a little bit negative, but it
has this idea of something that is surprising or something that is shocking. Something
that is sudden, a zinger.
Alright, our next word after zinger, our next word is summon. To summon or to summon
up, sometimes we'll say summon up, sometimes we just say summon. And in the
article we had the phrase "Kaizen can help you summon your powers of inspiration."
Summon your power, to summon means to call, call something to you, right? Like
"Come here, come to me now." Or to arouse, to arouse is another similar word to
summon. Or to conjure, all of these have similar meanings. So to summon your power
means to call your power "Power come to me now!" That's the idea. So kaizen, this
method, this way of thinking, this way of improving, little small improvements, asking
little small questions, it can summon your power. It calls your power to you. It gives you
power. So again, to summon means to call someone or something to you. It's kind of
like saying "Come to me. Come now." To summon, to summon.
Next we have the phrase to cough up, to cough up. Now cough up has a very direct
meaning, a very physical meaning. But then it also has more of a mental idea meaning.
And let me read the phrase, in the phrase it says "Although you can't force your brain to
cough up creative ideas, you can program it." Okay, to cough up means to give or to
produce quickly, right? To make something happen quickly, to give quickly, this idea of
calling up actually. And it comes from, physically, it means if we cough we would say
"cough, cough, cough", right, so if you cough something up, imagine you eat something
and then "cough" you cough it up, it comes from your stomach, up and out your mouth
again. So thať's the direct physical meaning. This idea that something is inside and
then you bleah, you cough it out. It comes out of your mouth. So if you have that idea
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Kaizen Vocabulary Text
Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "The Kaizen Way." Are you smiling? Big smile,
remember. Body up, shoulders back. Big smile, make it bigger, come on, a huge grin.
Look stupid. Look silly. What about your body? Start moving it. If you're sitting in a
car, if you're sitting in a train, you know you can just move your legs around a little bit.
People look at you and think you're strange, it's okay. Hopefully you have a chance,
you're out walking. Get that iPod in your ears. Move your body. Energy, get some
energy in your body. We're going to learn some English. Are you ready? Let's go.
Vocabulary for "The Kaizen Way."
Our first word from this article from this lesson is zinger, a zinger. Now a zinger is a
surprise or a shock. So in the article, it came from the phrase "You want to come up
with a zinger of a solution to an office problem." So a zinger of a solution means a
surprise or a shock of a solution. It means a solution that is surprising, in a good way
here, of course, it can be negative. Zingers can sometimes be a little bit negative, but it
has this idea of something that is surprising or something that is shocking. Something
that is sudden, a zinger.
Alright, our next word after zinger, our next word is summon. To summon or to summon
up, sometimes we'll say summon up, sometimes we just say summon. And in the
article we had the phrase "Kaizen can help you summon your powers of inspiration."
Summon your power, to summon means to call, call something to you, right? Like
"Come here, come to me now." Or to arouse, to arouse is another similar word to
summon. Or to conjure, all of these have similar meanings. So to summon your power
means to call your power "Power come to me now!" That's the idea. So kaizen, this
method, this way of thinking, this way of improving, little small improvements, asking
little small questions, it can summon your power. It calls your power to you. It gives you
power. So again, to summon means to call someone or something to you. It's kind of
like saying "Come to me. Come now." To summon, to summon.
Next we have the phrase to cough up, to cough up. Now cough up has a very direct
meaning, a very physical meaning. But then it also has more of a mental idea meaning.
And let me read the phrase, in the phrase it says "Although you can't force your brain to
cough up creative ideas, you can program it." Okay, to cough up means to give or to
produce quickly, right? To make something happen quickly, to give quickly, this idea of
calling up actually. And it comes from, physically, it means if we cough we would say
"cough, cough, cough", right, so if you cough something up, imagine you eat something
and then "cough" you cough it up, it comes from your stomach, up and out your mouth
again. So thať's the direct physical meaning. This idea that something is inside and
then you bleah, you cough it out. It comes out of your mouth. So if you have that idea
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