Shadowing-Übung: The Secret to Happiness 😁 | English Every Day 🇺🇸 (A2-B2) - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hi friends, welcome back to English Every Day, a podcast where I speak in slow,
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understandable, and easy English so that you can learn English every day.
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Today, we are talking about how to find happiness, how to be happy in your life.
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This is a hard question because a lot of people, many people, are not happy.
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They're not happy nowadays, meaning these days or in the year 2026.
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A lot of people are not happy.
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And there are a few reasons.
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But one reason that I want to talk about today, that I will talk about today, is mindset.
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which just means how you think.
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An example of a mindset is being optimistic, which means looking at the good things before the bad things.
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Or when something happens, you immediately think about the good things.
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In English, we have an expression, we have a sentence, we have an idiom, we have a saying, which is,
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I am a glass half full kind of person.
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So, for example, this is a glass of water.
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Is it half full or is it half empty?
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Right?
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And if you are a glass half full kind of person, that means you're optimistic because you can see,
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oh, there's a lot of water that I can drink.
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But if you are a glass half empty kind of person,
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then you are pessimistic or you're negative because you think, oh, look how much more water there could be.
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There's so much water missing.
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right so if you have an optimistic mindset that means
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that you are positive and the mindset
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that you need to be happy is to be optimistic
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and there's actually research on this you know that Scientists looked at this,
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they researched this, they did studies in their labs,
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and they found that optimistic people live longer than pessimistic people.
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And this is backed by research this is backed by studies this is backed by universities colleges hospitals
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that kind of thing they did research and they found that optimistic people live longer
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and you are also happier when you are optimistic because to you even bad things are good.
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So for example, you wake up and it's raining outside
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and there are dark clouds in the air and it's a dark day.
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You have two ways of thinking about this.
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You can either think, oh man, it's such a bad day, it's such a rainy day and be unhappy.
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Or you can think, oh, it's a rainy day.
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Nice.
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Or something like that, right?
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And you don't let it get you down, meaning you don't let it make you unhappy.
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And so the pessimistic person, the person with a negative mindset will think,
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well, they will be unhappy, right?
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But the optimistic person won't be unhappy.
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So there, the optimistic person is literally happy there.
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And a few more ways that you can be optimistic in your life is being grateful.
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It means giving thanks.
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So giving thanks to your mom or your dad or whoever in your family, calling them up and saying,
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hey mom, I love you thank you for everything
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that will make you happier because you will think not about what you don't have
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but you will think about what you have right the glass half full
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and when you realize wow look how much water i have suddenly meaning at once you will realize
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that you should be happy because you have so much you have
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so many gifts blessings and everything
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so the secret to living a happy life is being optimistic
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and in english we say looking at things in a good light or making light of situations,
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which all just means being optimistic.
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Okay?
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I will see you all tomorrow.
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Peace.

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