Superior Man Vocabulary Text

Hi, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Superior Man." Let's start.

Our first word is intimate, intimate. In the first sentence David Dieda says pick an area

of your life, choose an area of your life. And he says perhaps your intimate

relationships. So intimate, intimate relationship for example, intimate just means very

close, very personal. So your intimate relationships are your closest relationships. Your

husband or wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, mother, father, daughter, son, those kind of

relationships. Maybe your very close, closest friends, so your intimate relationships,

your very close relationships.

Sometimes if someone says your intimate relationship, no “s", relationship, then they're

usually talking about someone you're dating or you're married to, so they're talking

about your

that kind of love relationship between a husband/wife boyfriend/girlfriend. But

sometimes it's a little more general and it just means your closest relationships. So if

there's an "s" there, intimation relationships, then we're talking about the people who

are closest to you.

husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. So sometimes it's used just to mean

Our next word is spiritual. He says perhaps you should think about your spiritual

practice. Spiritual is similar to religious. It's quite close to religious...spiritual, religious,

very similar. The difference is that religious is organized, or religion is organized, right?

So we're talking about Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, those are

religions. So if you're practicing one of those specifically, you can say "Oh, I am

religious. I am a religious person. I am a Buddhist, I am a very strong Buddhist. I am

religious."

But spiritual is really very personal. It's not organized. You might say you have a belief

about god or you have a belief about the universe or about life. But maybe it's not

Buddhism or Christianity or Islam, maybe it's not a specific religion. It's your own

personal feeling. Your own personal experience, that's spiritual. Spiritual. So spiritual

is the direct experience, the direct feeling. Religion or religious refers to something

organized. Okay, so your spiritual practice, it's your practice or how you pray or

meditate, for example.

Next we see the phrase "earn a living." He says are you currently doing something to

earn a living that gives you passion. To earn a living means to make money. It really

means to work, usually it's how you make money. So you can say "I earn a living by

teaching English," right? I make money by teaching English. It's my job. It's my career.

Alright, so to earn a living means to make money or to work. So in this article he talks