Shadowing Practice: Looksmaxxing will NOT make you richer bro - Learn English Speaking with Video

Alright boys, the receding hairline is making an appearance for this video.

To make a very specific point,

and that point is that you do not need to be handsome to be successful.

You do not need to be good looking to be successful.

And there is no, let me repeat that,

no correlation between what you look like and how commercially successful you are in business.

Now, this looks maxing thing has gone too far.

And I don't know about you,

but I've been observing society and culture in this weird little Instagram age.

And I've noticed that women are becoming men and men are becoming women.

You notice in this as well?

Like, you know, we took ourselves as men culturally to a pinnacle of masculinity.

We idolized Andrew Tate.

We idolized Tristan Tate.

We idolized, you know, further extremes than James Bond,

about as masculine as you can get.

the problem with anything taken to its extreme is you create an opposite

and so anything is a paradox anything taken to its extreme becomes opposite

and i i just have a feeling boys

that we're all on to the wrong thing here now i

was having a conversation earlier with a kid in the sauna now

that i know that might sound a little bit suspicious

but he was about 21 years old and he was talking about looks maxing

and he was talking about how like you know he he's going to be more successful

because he's he's good looking and he's going to be working on his looks and i was like,

dude, let Napoleon, Socrates, Winston Churchill,

Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Vitalik,

who I've been compared to,

like, look, I could sit here with a straight face and list,

I don't know, a hundred successful,

hyper successful men in any field,

early Zuck, early Bezos, early Warren Buffett,

early Charlie Munger, like, it's like,

there is just, no correlation between what you look like

and how commercially successful you are there is a single exception

and this single exception has been horrifically overextended now there is a quote

and it summarizes a beautiful beautiful phrase

that to the man with a hammer every problem seems to look like a nail now looks maxing

and the idea of looks maxing has been born by influencers it's It's been born by streamers and influencers and TikTokers.

Now, let me tell you something.

To the man with a hammer,

every problem seems to look like a nail.

There is a correlation between how attractive you are and how successful you are on social media.

Proven.

It's even written in TikTok's algorithm, okay?

If you're more handsome, more chiseled,

more asymmet, more symmetrical you will get more views the problem is

that the influencers have a platform and the thing

that made them successful they then project onto the world let me give you a piece of critical thinking

it's 5 a.m you're you have a family right at some point in the future it's 5 a.m

and you know you wake up to go to work

because you've got a job and you go to turn the shower on

and the shower doesn't work you go to flush the toilet

the toilet doesn't work your water stops working oh shit i've

got to call a plumber it's 5am you call a plumber

when you call that plumber to make a purchasing decision

which by the way is what business and the economy ticks on

you make that decision on the availability of the plumber

and the competence of the plumber you do not go on the plumbers instagram

and think hmm i think i should probably hire the most handsome plumber

if anything you want the ugliest plumber all right look boys the way

that we organize ourselves in hierarchies

and well the way we organize ourselves in society at least

especially commercially in hierarchies in business is on competence your ability

to get the job done your ability to think critically problem solved

and obsess over the thing you're doing you might be like yeah

but mark zuckerberg he's taking care of his looks now the

only reason mark zuckerberg takes care of his his looks now is because he's in the media.

When your job is media, appearance becomes important.

Oh, look at Zuck when he made his first billion,

his first 10 billion, his first 50 billion.

Just a dude, just a nerdy looking dude.

Elon Musk.

He's not the most handsome guy in the world, to be fair.

There's a lot of people that find him quite handsome,

but that's up for debate.

But my point here, gentlemen,

is that if you are a influencer,

if you are a streamer,

if you are a tick tocker

or your ambition is to build a social media presence then being good looking is going to help you

but the problem is that the influencers that have discovered

that now believe in their infinite wisdom and prowess of intellectualism

that the same thing applies to every other area of life it doesn't napoleon was one of the greatest conquerors

and emperors to to Everlift.

He managed to get, I mean,

he subdued the entirety of Europe.

He was like 5'6", 5'5",

and he wasn't that good looking.

There's one portrait of him that depicts him looking very handsome.

The rest of them, he was described as quite squat,

not the best looking, and his wife cheated on him.

So if you want to take it very far,

he was not good looking and a cuck.

And it's And it's like,

the problem is, is we really sort of put this divine masculinity on a pedestal.

But the problem is that what you then do is you think

that you have to be handsome to be successful because your only perception of success comes from the pedestal of social media.

You don't have a window or a paradigm or a perspective to see the world in any other way.

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The only thing you know about business is what you see on social media.

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You don't see the guy who owns Home Depot,

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who's who's worth like the company worth 300 billion dollars just

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a normal looking dude just a normal looking dude might be

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might have been a little more handsome the next guy

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but he wasn't like some you know mogging chad now it's

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just like it doesn't take much it doesn't take much more than a modicum of critical thinking to realize this

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and look i i don't care

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if you want to do your looks maxing i don't care

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if you want to hit your face with a hammer i don't care

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if you you want to pencil your eyebrows or wear eyeliner or whatever.

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The point at which I care for you is when you start thinking that those behaviors in any way,

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shape or form correlate to more success in business.

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They don't.

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If anything, they hinder your ability to be successful because success is about sustained focus.

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Now, I know this because I have made $40 million online with this hairline.

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Do you, for the life of you,

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really think that the reason that I made multi eight figures online is

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because I was six foot? shit the people i do business with online don't even know how tall i am

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but the thing is is a lot of men are very insecure

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and so they use this you know um nietzsche said this god is dead

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and now we cling on to these ideals right

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and one ideal is looking good it's it's this it's this it's this boy in the ocean of chaos

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that is life you can grab onto it

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and as long as at least if i look good i've got something together

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and so when you challenge that and you'll see this in the comments

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if you want to scroll down

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and have a look it'll be a whale of a time

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when you challenge someone's insecurities

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or you poke them people don't like to be poked in the insecurities like this it's ridiculous

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and so what they'll do is because they value success and

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because they value you know um commercial gain i.e getting rich

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and that's one of the central polaris stars in their life one of the main things they want to achieve

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but at the same time they're also insecure about their looks

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or they feel like they're very low down the social hierarchy

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they they they they they they they they they they they fused the two together

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and nothing could be further from the the truth the reason i'm successful is

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because i worked incredibly hard got really good at something

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and figured out how to sell things to people for less than it cost me to sell it to them

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and make it you don't need to be handsome to do

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that now if you want to be a streamer

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if you want to be an influencer maybe you can have a conversation about

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that and there's definitely a relationship but this this whole thing like

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but the halo effect it's like it's like come on man like you know really Like,

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go and look at any,

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like go to the forbes rich list right now

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and look at the richest self-made men in the world

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and tell me do you see like a genuine cause

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and effect because if this was true and if it was true

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that in order to be successful you are you know you have to be handsome

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that being handsome is correlated with success then the most the

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richest people in the world would be the most handsome is

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that not true can we not can we not extend it

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that far but instead we just worship a projection from influencers

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and streamers and look i'm not saying

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that it's it's a bad thing to work on your looks i'm just saying

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that don't use that as a proxy for the reason you're not successful

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and this i will leave you with this in closing where

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we end up as usual with all of these things is to reveal

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that we have a grand coping mechanism and if the reason

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that you're telling yourself right now that you're not successful is

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because of your looks you are a fucking idiot and i mean

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that with love and i mean that with care i don't mean

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that to insult you i'm just trying to snap you out of this stupidness that you've dove into

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i'm not rich and successful because i'm under six foot i'm not rich

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and successful because my jawline isn't symmetrical i'm not successful

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because you know i haven't got hunter eyes it's like can you just just listen to yourself

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and then go and listen to anyone who's actually achieved success

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and see if they want to talk about their looks unless they're a streamer an influencer a tick tocker

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or whatever your perception of business and commercial success is limited solely to social media

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and therefore you think that to achieve success and everything like

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that you have to emulate these people social media represents a tiny little proportion of actual entrepreneurs go

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and look at tobias luchki you don't know who

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that is he's the founder of shopify

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and his company is worth a hundred billion dollars he's bold wears glasses he's just a normal looking dude

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100 billion dollars on the topic of money

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if you want to make more

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or learn how to start a business there's a link in

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the description you can click do not worry don't worry about

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it there's no pitch there's no you can't buy anything from me it's completely free it's a six-week training program

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that took me a year to make explains how i made 40 million dollars

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and the best business model to start i don't need your

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997 dollar payment i don't need your monthly subscription to my community it's completely free um

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and if you want to check it out you can i built it for people just like you um

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but if you if you think the reason you're not rich is

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because you're not attractive then there's not much i can do

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or that anyone can do to help you except from you to look in the mirror

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and start thinking critically so go and click that link

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if you want to check it out it's called imperial academy

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we've already got 60 000 young boys in there i shouldn't

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have said boys i should have said men shouldn't i because

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that makes me sound like some sort of like i'm running some sort of ring on

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that note i'm spiraling have a good day and i'll talk to you soon

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 193 frases y 2149 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:41. El hablante habla rápido, unas 201 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 83 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
handsome adjetivo	/ˈhæn.səm/	apuesto, guapo
hammer sustantivo	/ˈhæmɚ/	martillo
correlation sustantivo	/ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/	correlación
tick sustantivo	/tɪk/	garrapata, rezno
hierarchy sustantivo	/ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/	jerarquía, hierarquía (disused)
commercially adverbio		comercialmente
ideal adjetivo	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	ideal, idóneo
exception sustantivo	/əkˈsɛpʃən/	excepción, salvedad
nail sustantivo	/neɪl/	uña, garra
perception sustantivo	/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/	percepción
organize verbo	/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/	organizar
critically adverbio	/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/	críticamente
insecure adjetivo	/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/	inseguro, en globo
poke verbo	/poʊk/	hurgar, hincar
competence sustantivo	/ˈkɑm.pə.təns/	competenza

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
end up verbo	terminar, ir a parar
figure out verbo	averiguar, captar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 63 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, critically /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kə.li/, napoleon /nəˈpoʊli.ən/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como handsome, hammer, correlation.

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	has gone · I've noticed · I've been compared
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	I've been compared · has been born · was described

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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