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 stupi

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