Pratique du Shadowing: Looksmaxxing will NOT make you richer bro - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec YouTube
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Alright boys, the receding hairline is making an appearance for this video.
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Alright boys, the receding hairline is making an appearance for this video.
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To make a very specific point,
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and that point is that you do not need to be handsome to be successful.
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You do not need to be good looking to be successful.
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And there is no, let me repeat that,
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no correlation between what you look like and how commercially successful you are in business.
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Now, this looks maxing thing has gone too far.
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And I don't know about you,
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but I've been observing society and culture in this weird little Instagram age.
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And I've noticed that women are becoming men and men are becoming women.
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You notice in this as well?
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Like, you know, we took ourselves as men culturally to a pinnacle of masculinity.
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We idolized Andrew Tate.
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We idolized Tristan Tate.
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We idolized, you know, further extremes than James Bond,
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about as masculine as you can get.
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the problem with anything taken to its extreme is you create an opposite
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and so anything is a paradox anything taken to its extreme becomes opposite
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and i i just have a feeling boys
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that we're all on to the wrong thing here now i
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was having a conversation earlier with a kid in the sauna now
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that i know that might sound a little bit suspicious
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but he was about 21 years old and he was talking about looks maxing
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and he was talking about how like you know he he's going to be more successful
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because he's he's good looking and he's going to be working on his looks and i was like,
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dude, let Napoleon, Socrates, Winston Churchill,
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Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Vitalik,
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who I've been compared to,
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like, look, I could sit here with a straight face and list,
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I don't know, a hundred successful,
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hyper successful men in any field,
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early Zuck, early Bezos, early Warren Buffett,
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early Charlie Munger, like, it's like,
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there is just, no correlation between what you look like
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and how commercially successful you are there is a single exception
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and this single exception has been horrifically overextended now there is a quote
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and it summarizes a beautiful beautiful phrase
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that to the man with a hammer every problem seems to look like a nail now looks maxing
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and the idea of looks maxing has been born by influencers it's It's been born by streamers and influencers and TikTokers.
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Now, let me tell you something.
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To the man with a hammer,
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every problem seems to look like a nail.
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There is a correlation between how attractive you are and how successful you are on social media.
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Proven.
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It's even written in TikTok's algorithm, okay?
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If you're more handsome, more chiseled,
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more asymmet, more symmetrical you will get more views the problem is
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that the influencers have a platform and the thing
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that made them successful they then project onto the world let me give you a piece of critical thinking
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it's 5 a.m you're you have a family right at some point in the future it's 5 a.m
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and you know you wake up to go to work
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because you've got a job and you go to turn the shower on
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and the shower doesn't work you go to flush the toilet
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the toilet doesn't work your water stops working oh shit i've
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got to call a plumber it's 5am you call a plumber
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when you call that plumber to make a purchasing decision
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which by the way is what business and the economy ticks on
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you make that decision on the availability of the plumber
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and the competence of the plumber you do not go on the plumbers instagram
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and think hmm i think i should probably hire the most handsome plumber
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if anything you want the ugliest plumber all right look boys the way
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that we organize ourselves in hierarchies
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and well the way we organize ourselves in society at least
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especially commercially in hierarchies in business is on competence your ability
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to get the job done your ability to think critically problem solved
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and obsess over the thing you're doing you might be like yeah
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but mark zuckerberg he's taking care of his looks now the
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only reason mark zuckerberg takes care of his his looks now is because he's in the media.
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When your job is media, appearance becomes important.
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Oh, look at Zuck when he made his first billion,
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his first 10 billion, his first 50 billion.
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Just a dude, just a nerdy looking dude.
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Elon Musk.
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He's not the most handsome guy in the world, to be fair.
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There's a lot of people that find him quite handsome,
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but that's up for debate.
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But my point here, gentlemen,
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is that if you are a influencer,
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if you are a streamer,
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if you are a tick tocker
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or your ambition is to build a social media presence then being good looking is going to help you
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but the problem is that the influencers that have discovered
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that now believe in their infinite wisdom and prowess of intellectualism
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that the same thing applies to every other area of life it doesn't napoleon was one of the greatest conquerors
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and emperors to to Everlift.
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He managed to get, I mean,
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he subdued the entirety of Europe.
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He was like 5'6", 5'5",
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and he wasn't that good looking.
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There's one portrait of him that depicts him looking very handsome.
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The rest of them, he was described as quite squat,
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not the best looking, and his wife cheated on him.
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So if you want to take it very far,
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he was not good looking and a cuck.
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And it's And it's like,
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the problem is, is we really sort of put this divine masculinity on a pedestal.
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But the problem is that what you then do is you think
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that you have to be handsome to be successful because your only perception of success comes from the pedestal of social media.
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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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or
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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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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice your English speaking skills by engaging with a thought-provoking discussion centered around the concept of looksmaxxing and its correlation, or lack thereof, with success. The transcript touches on societal perceptions of beauty and success, emphasizing that physical appearance does not determine one's commercial achievements. As you explore this topic, you'll develop your vocabulary and improve your ability to articulate complex ideas in English.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Looksmaxxing - The act of enhancing one's physical appearance, often to increase success or attractiveness.
- Correlation - A relationship or connection between two or more things.
- Influencers - Individuals who have the power to affect purchasing decisions or public opinions due to their authority, knowledge, or relationship with their audience.
- Commercial success - Achieving financial prosperity through business or trade.
- Paradox - A statement that contradicts itself but may include a truth worth considering.
- Cultural perceptions - The shared beliefs or social norms that shape how a group views certain subjects, such as beauty or success.
- Social media algorithms - Rules and calculations that determine how content is presented to users based on various factors.
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