Shadowing-Übung: Stop Dreaming and Start Doing | Self-Sabotage - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Have you ever felt like there is an invisible barrier between you and your dreams?
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Today I'm going to talk about how we ourselves sabotage our progress
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and share critical strategies of how we can overcome all of these psychological barriers.
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Let's dive in.
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Why do we stop ourselves from chasing our dreams?
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Most of the time, fear is the answer.
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It's like our brain's alarm system is telling us, I'm getting out of my comfort zone, I'm uncomfortable.
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I don't want to do this.
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This feeling is very paralyzing and I've struggled with it for a very long time.
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So I'm from Ukraine and when I was 15 I decided
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that I wanted to go to university in the United States
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but doing it required a lot of things that I didn't know.
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I had to improve my English skills, take a lot of exams in a new language, learn about the application process, a lot of new things.
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For a very long time I was completely paralyzed.
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I was scared that I wouldn't get in, and I was scared that there was so much stuff that I didn't know, so much unfamiliar territory.
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But I decided to take every single day and commit myself to getting out of my comfort zone.
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So because I did not sabotage myself and didn't think about the fear, tried to ignore it, it brought me to an acceptance letter.
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In the book The Mountain is You, Brianna V is just talking about the self-sabotaging behaviors that we do,
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which are the avoidance tactics our brains developed to keep us protected from our deepest fears.
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It's a common coping mechanism that we developed to soothe discomfort.
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This makes us stay in abusive relationships
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if we are too scared to be alone
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or it might make us never start our dream projects because we are too scared of failure.
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This happens because comfort is the driving force of human behavior.
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Human brains inherently seek what is most comfortable for us, therefore safe, even if it's objectively a worse option for us.
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But a bigger issue happens if we're too scared to even start doing something
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because we're scared of the negative opinions of other people.
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My parents would always tell me, never tell anyone your aspirations and dreams except the closest people.
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Also, my parents would always tell me about the power of the evil eye, how someone can look at you and from their bad intentions,
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from greed, from jealousy, from anger, they sank negative energy and you're not going to succeed.
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Well, to be honest, I don't really believe in this evil eye thing.
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I don't know.
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But it sort of makes sense.
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Imagine that you tell someone your dream or inspiration and they think it's impossible.
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People have different limitations of what they think is possible.
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So not telling everyone what you're planning is probably the best way to go.
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Because you might sense their negativity and it might demotivate you.
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But never give anyone influence over your decisions.
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Imagine in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, will you regret not following your dreams because you were scared someone will think you're stupid or crazy or cringe?
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Exactly.
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Let's say you're building a new project, like I recently started this YouTube channel.
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For the longest time I was really scared to do it because I didn't know how to make good videos
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and I didn't know whether I'm going to be doing it well, so it really stopped me from pursuing this dream.
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But the key is to start before you're ready.
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No one comes into a new project or a new field or a new career with knowing everything about it.
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Everyone is a beginner at some point.
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That is why the power of the word yet is very
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very critical don't say oh i'm not gonna start this
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because i don't know how to do it say i don't
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know how to do it yet this transforms the meaning of the sentence into saying
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that with a little bit of time
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and a little bit of effort i will get there
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and i will know how to do it often our brains make us believe
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that the goal we're trying to achieve is way too hard way too big
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and it paralyzes us into starting even doing something.
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But the issue here is very simple.
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The issue is that you're lacking proper planning.
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So instead of making big goals, just cut them down into small measurable steps.
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Instead of saying I want to be famous on YouTube by the end of the year, you have to say okay I want to post 15 videos in the next month
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and then I'm going to post all of them and see
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which one is performing the best and try to to make similar videos and see why my best videos perform the best.
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And I'm gonna do it every month for the whole year.
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This is a much better approach
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because you're gonna be able to celebrate every small win
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that you do and when you have a huge goal you don't see a progress really fast.
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But if you break it down to small goals, you always get a dopamine hit with every check mark that you do.
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A lot of our self-concept, our perception of ourselves, is guided by something that we internalized in childhood.
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Once upon a time, there was a boy, and this boy was told by his athletic coach that he wasn't good for sports.
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He internalized it, and he, for the whole life, he believed that he was bad at sports.
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But in adulthood, this man decided to break this pattern of negative self-talk, and he found evidence that he is indeed athletic.
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In the result, he was able to run his first 5k race, and he broke this negative belief about himself with time and practice.
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Most often, we have to re-evaluate our self-perception in order to stop ourselves from self-sabotage.
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Maybe you're going to become less light or understood by your family or friends, but Wiest explains that the people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side.
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You're going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward, but your new way of life is going to cost you your old one.
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It's about understanding that stepping into a new way of life means leaving some things behind, which could mean our past relationships or our past selves.
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But what you're going to gain is much more valuable, which is actually pursuing and achieving your dreams rather than only dreaming about them.
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And hey, if you have a dream that you're working on or you have some psychological barrier that you're trying to overcome, please drop a comment below.
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I would love to read all of them and try to support you on this new journey.

Kontext & Hintergrund

In dem Video „Stop Dreaming and Start Doing | Self-Sabotage“ teilt der Sprecher seine persönlichen Erfahrungen über die Herausforderungen, die mit der Verfolgung von Träumen verbunden sind. Er beschreibt, wie Angst und Selbstsabotage oft uns davon abhalten, das Leben zu führen, das wir uns wünschen. Der Sprecher erzählt von seiner Entscheidung, in den USA zu studieren, und die Schwierigkeiten, die er überwinden musste, um seine Englischkenntnisse zu verbessern und den Bewerbungsprozess zu verstehen. Seine Erzählung dient als Inspiration und zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, sich seinen Ängsten zu stellen und aus der Komfortzone herauszutreten.

Top 5 Phrasen für die tägliche Kommunikation

  • „Ich bin bereit, mich außerhalb meiner Komfortzone zu bewegen.“ – Diese Phrase zeigt die Bereitschaft, Herausforderungen anzunehmen.
  • „Ich weiß nicht, wie ich es machen soll, aber ich werde es noch lernen.“ – Ein positiver Ansatz, der die Bedeutung des Lernprozesses hervorhebt.
  • „Lass dir von niemandem deine Träume ausreden.“ – Ein ermutigender Hinweis, auf die eigenen Ziele zu vertrauen.
  • „Ich bin nicht bereit, aufzugeben.“ – Betont Entschlossenheit und Durchhaltevermögen.
  • „Ich werde es schaffen, egal was andere denken.“ – Ein starkes Statement für Selbstvertrauen und inneren Frieden.

Schritt-für-Schritt Shadowing-Anleitung

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  1. Aktive Zuhören: Sehen Sie sich das Video an, während Sie auf die Aussprache und Intonation des Sprechers achten. Notieren Sie sich Schlüsselwörter und Phrasen.
  2. Nachsprechen: Verwenden Sie die shadowing site, um das Gehörte zu wiederholen. Versuchen Sie, den gleichen rhythmischen Fluss zu erreichen, den der Sprecher verwendet.
  3. Langsame Wiederholung: Spielen Sie das Video in langsamerer Geschwindigkeit ab, um die Aussprache besser zu verstehen und nachzuahmen.
  4. Inwertsetzung: Bevor Sie mit dem Shadowing beginnen, werfen Sie einen Blick auf die Bedeutung schwieriger Wörter oder Phrasen, damit Sie sie im Kontext verwenden können.
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Mit dieser strukturierten Vorgehensweise werden Sie in der Lage sein, Ihre Sprechfähigkeiten im Englischen erheblich zu verbessern und Ihre Hemmungen zu überwinden. Denken Sie daran, der Schlüssel zum Erfolg liegt in der Beständigkeit und in der Bereitschaft, über Ihre Ängste hinauszugehen.

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.