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Never let yourself be the victim.
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If I could go back in time and have a conversation with my eight to ten -year -old self,
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that would be the message I would give.
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Because when you think about it, you're a kid, things don't go your way, what do you do?
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You cry, you whine, you throw a fit, you want your parents to feel sorry for you.
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You feel sorry for yourself
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It's how how you deal with things at that age and then you grow up
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But you don't necessarily shed that habit that mentality
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And it becomes obvious, right?
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I mean you can talk to someone for 30 seconds
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and you know right away if they have that victim mentality the world's falling down They're tired.
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They have so much to do.
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They're so busy X Y and Z
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look having that mindset does two things for you one it makes you come across helpless
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and weak and no one wants to come across
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that way two it does not get you to where you're going
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it does not change the situation right here's the reality there is always a way to get what you want there
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There is always a way to position yourself to move away from what you don't want.
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You can quite literally become what you want to become, but you cannot look at life like it's this problem, like it's against you.
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The ball is in your court.
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You know, it wasn't that long ago, two, three years ago, that I was not the happiest guy in the world, right?
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Did not like what I was doing, did not like how I was spending my time, was not energized was not passionate about very much
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but the time came where I didn't want to live like
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that I had a conversation with myself I stopped being the victim I stopped complaining
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and I asked myself dude what do you want what is
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your purpose what is your goal who do you want to become
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and I literally made the decision and walked away a different person and the things around me changed,
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my life changed because I made a decision to never be the victim again to get what I want.
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I became the author of my own story.
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And you realize just how simple it is to transform your situation.
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Not easy, right?
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And it takes time.
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But there's always a way to get from point A to point B.
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And this separates the world into two kinds of people.
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People who look at how things are, who accept reality as truth, who complain, and people who look at what can be,
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who make the most of any situation, look at life as if it's clay, to be molded, to be shaped.
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It seems funny to me, knowing what I do now, that I went through any of my life like a hamster on a wheel.
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That I talked to people every day who didn't energize me, that I didn't want to be around,
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that I did things I wasn't passionate about, that is insanity.
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Because if you don't like something, but you do nothing to change it, what's left for you to do?
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Complain, whine, stay where you are, that's it.
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See, one of the reasons I reference athletics so much is
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because they bring this mentality on you that when things become difficult
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when things become challenging your job your one job is to find a way to figure it out
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and i always did and i took that
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and i brought it to everything else i do
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and now it's eye -opening to see people achieving success financial freedom these things everyone wants
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and know that the difference between them and everyone else is
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that they felt like they deserved it a lot of the time they weren't smarter stronger.
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They weren't more gifted starting out, but they moved toward what they wanted.
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They didn't cry or groan about the problems.
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They didn't look for sympathy.
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Those at the top of the mountain are not victims.
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They would never let themselves be victims.
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It's about the other side, the opportunity, getting from where you are to what you want.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Never the Victim - Motivational Video”. Las palabras que más se repiten: victim, mentality, situation. Este vídeo tiene 56 frases y 712 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:39. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 153 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
complain verbo/kəmˈpleɪn/quejarse, alegar
mentality sustantivo/mɛnˈtæləti/mentalidad
passionate adjetivo/ˈpæʃənɪt/apasionado
necessarily adverbio/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/necesariamente
clay sustantivo/kleɪ/arcilla, barro
habit sustantivo/ˈhæb.ɪt/costumbre, hábito
athletic adjetivo/æθˈlɛt.ɪk/atlético
transform verbo/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/trasformar, transformar
sympathy sustantivo/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/compasión
mindset sustantivo/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentalidad, actitud
mold sustantivo/moʊld/moho, mufa
insanity sustantivo/ɪnˈsænɪti/locura, insania
helpless adjetivo/ˈhɛlplɪs/indefenso, desamparado
energize verbo/ˈɛnəd͡ʒaɪz/jumpear
whine verbo/ˈwaɪ̯n/gemir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come across verbopasarse a
go through verboatravesar
grow up verbocrecer

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, helpless /ˈhɛlplɪs/, hamster /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

¿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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