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What if I told you that you've been playing the most important game of your life, but nobody ever gave you the instruction manual?
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Hi muses!
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Welcome back to my channel where we talk about how women can have their cake and eat it too.
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I'm your host Nadine and I'm here to rebuild the village woman once had
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so we can have the right conversations and create lives that feel as good as it looks.
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they hate, expiration dating people because they got too comfortable, repeating the same problems and cycles, just living on autopilot mode.
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On the flip side, there's a small percentage of people who seem to move through life more strategically.
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They understand leverage, opportunity, people, they're socially intelligent, and they understand timing and positioning.
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When to move, when to wait,
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leaves you clues on what you need to do.
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So today, I want to talk about the hidden mechanics of the game we're all already playing, whether we like it or not,
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and the strategies that will completely change the way you approach life.
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As always, we don't get keep, so let's step into it.
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Most people only operate from surface level awareness.
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They focus on what's directly in front of them.
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Bills, deadlines, stress, notifications, drama, responsibilities.
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But is another operating system in the background running your entire life.
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I think of life almost like three layers.
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The first layer is the conscious mind.
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That's your surface awareness, your thoughts, decisions, logic, what you're actively paying attention to.
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But that's honestly only a tiny percentage of what drives your behavior.
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Underneath that is the subconscious mind.
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This is where most of the game is actually being played.
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Your habits, emotional conditioning, your fears, patterns, your what feels familiar to you, and what you subconsciously believe you deserve.
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Most people try to change their lives only at the conscious level.
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You make a vision board, you set the goals, you get motivated for three days.
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But if your subconscious programming still believes, I'm not good enough, I always mess things up, I have to struggle to deserve things,
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you will unconsciously sabotage yourself back into familiarity.
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In a book I read recently called The
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how much good we allow ourselves to have before we think it's too much
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and we recalibrate to a level we're comfortable at.
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Because the goal of your subconscious mind is not to make you successful.
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It's to keep you safe by keeping you in your comfort zone.
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And then there's the super conscious level.
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Woo, girl talk or not, this is just what I believe, okay?
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So the super conscious level is your intuition, your creativity, how abundant you feel, or like when you're in flow state doing the things you love.
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This level is your ability to see possibilities beyond your current circumstances.
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So your deepest ideas and breakthroughs come from here.
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And while most people stay trapped only reacting to surface reality,
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the strategic successful girlies understand that the real game is played and won underneath the surface.
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One of the first things you have to accept in life is that you don't choose your starting character.
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So here's where we do our character optimization.
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You don't get to choose your family,
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your childhood, your genetics, your and honestly some people absolutely start with advantages.
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Some people are born with more money, more resources, better connections, a loving and supportive family, easier access to education, or just a cleaner runway
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and one of the biggest traps in the game of life
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is wasting your time hating on other players instead of focusing on upgrading yourself.
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You can't control your starting stats but you can control how much you level yourself up over time.
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Kind of like you're designing your game character, right?
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You have a skill tree and skill points.
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And the biggest upgrade categories in the game of life are your health, skills, appearance, relationships, and environment.
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Health is one of the most important yet underrated stats, especially when you're younger and you're not really thinking about taking care of yourself.
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But how well you take care of yourself will set you up for life.
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Health determines your energy and that affects your mood, including how you decision making.
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it affects how good you look too.
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So a burnt out, dysregulated, exhausted player is not going to be making the best choices in this game.
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You don't have to be the most optimized and the healthiest version of you to do well in life.
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But if you are unhealthy, then the damages hurt you a lot more.
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Then there are skills you need to attain.
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The highest ROI skills are usually the ones that compound over time.
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There are eight skills that are really worth investing in, and those are technology, sales,
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storytelling, relationship building, and having good judgment.
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A lot of what people think is confidence is honestly just competence.
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So the more capable you are, the more evidence you build that you can actually trust yourself.
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Now appearance, whether people like to admit it or not, the way you present yourself changes the energy of how people experience you.
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It affects their perception of you, how you're treated, and honestly, the opportunities you have.
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say that this is all about looking perfect or looking good, but you need to get intentional with how you carry yourself and move through the world.
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We all know that pretty privilege is real, but it can be as simple as learning how to dress nicer, how to take care of yourself better so you're well -groomed,
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a haircut that suits you.
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What message do you want to send when people see you?
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And sometimes the glow up is less about becoming hotter than it is about becoming more intentional how you feel about yourself.
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And your appearance is a form of communication that happens before you speak.
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The next stat is your relationships.
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Your relationships affect your opportunities, self -perception, emotional state, and even what you believe is possible for yourself.
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The people around you are either expanding the game for you or holding you down to an old level.
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Some people are energy multipliers.
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They make you feel expansive, braver, more inspired, and more connected to your future.
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takers.
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You can literally feel them drain you or confuse you or they're competing with you or they look down on your growth.
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They make you feel like you need to minimize yourself in order to keep the relationship comfortable.
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If you have friends who make you feel this way, like it doesn't feel good to hang out with them, cut them out.
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No love lost there, okay?
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I promise you.
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One of life's biggest upgrades is realizing that proximity matters.
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Most people underestimate how much proximity changes challenge you to grow, the right mentors collapse timelines for you,
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and the right partner literally changes your entire emotional landscape and can heal you.
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So even though the game of life is a one -person journey, it's a multiplayer game and everyone affects each other by proximity and association.
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And high -level, strategic, smart, girly players of the game of life understand that how you choose your associations would affect your entire life trajectory.
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This is also similar to the as well.
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The environment stat is about the spaces you're in and the rooms you get invited into.
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This is your network and who you choose to surround yourself with.
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So rather than obsessing over what you don't have, ask yourself, what stats can I realistically improve on in the next 90 days?
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What do I want to focus on first?
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Because small upgrades compound over time into completely different realities.
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Here is where you're kind of grinding skill points and that takes repetition and perseverance.
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You may not see the changes immediately, but you will in the long run.
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The next thing is time and energy management.
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What I have realized is that attention is one of the most valuable currencies in this game of life.
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Whatever gets your attention repeatedly affects your ambition,
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if your entire algorithm is rage bait, gossip, doom scrolling, and people hate watching each other all day, eventually your inner world starts looking like that too.
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Your routines also affect your future.
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Everything is literally programming you whether you realize it or not.
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And so many people are careless with their energy.
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They give emotional access to everyone.
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Every opinion hurts their feelings.
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Every criticism they take to heart.
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Every random Smart girl players understand that not everything deserves access to their nervous system.
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Criticism can either become emotional poison or momentum.
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Resistance can either make you collapse or it can become fuel for you.
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The difference is whether you know how to transmute that energy.
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When someone doubts you, misunderstands you, underestimates you, you do not have to claim it as your personal truth.
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You can convert that energy into clarity, discipline, and forward movement.
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your stats, none of it really matters if you're climbing the wrong mountain.
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And the next part is about quest selection and design.
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One of the biggest traps is accidentally accepting quests you never really knew you were choosing.
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A lot of people pursue careers, lifestyles, relationships, and definitions of success they inherited from their family or from fear, from being in survival mode.
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And because of that, they wake up one day successful on paper but completely disconnected from themselves Miss Nadine over here,
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precisely when I decided to leave my corporate job in tech when I was 27 years old.
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It was really hard being a high achiever, having graduated from UC Berkeley, great job in tech, fun friends, charming boyfriend at the time.
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Everything was perfect on paper.
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And then I lit the whole thing on fire because none of it actually felt like me.
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I felt like I was living this lie that I made up and it suffocated me.
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Another thing that I truly believe test you and put obstacles in your way.
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If certain paths feel like doors are just getting slammed shut in your face, sometimes that is a sign too.
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Okay, I don't know how much you girls are into energetics, but I believe we all carry our own karmic stories and timelines.
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Sometimes we run into people in situations where we want to attach ourselves to them.
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But you're presented with so many opportunities to turn around, to choose yourself, to cut ties.
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And it's like this alarm is going off, but you're still trying to force things to happen.
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You force stores to open.
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You attach yourself to a side quest that was never meant for you.
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dealing and repaying some of the karmic debt that wasn't meant for you.
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That's why I'm really picky about friendships and even more so with relationships because you share lives together.
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Some quests give you status, but it drains your soul.
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Some quests look impressive to others, but feel empty to live in.
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Some quests make your family proud, make sense on paper, or look good online,
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but privately you little nervous,
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but a good kind of nervous.
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It shouldn't be something that makes you feel disconnected from yourself.
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The difference between a meaningful life and an empty one is usually whether the path actually belongs to you.
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Meaningful quests usually contain at least a few elements like curiosity, passion, purpose, mastery.
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Curiosity means it's genuinely something that interests you.
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Passion means it gives you energy.
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Purpose means it's meaningful beyond just means there is a personal challenge for you to grow, improve, and become better over time.
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If your current path contains none of those things, you might not actually be building a life you love or playing the right game.
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I want to talk about something I think games help people understand more, and it's that failure is expected.
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You need to see failure as a stepping stone to leveling up.
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No one rage quits a game because they lost one time.
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Nobody assumes they're not meant to play because they didn't beat the final boss on the first try.
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Failure is part of the learning process.
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You lose, you adjust, you try again, you learn a new strategy and get better and eventually move on to the next level.
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But in real life, we like to interpret failure as an identity crisis.
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We fail once and suddenly decide we're not talented, we're not smart enough, not ready or we're not meant for it.
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We deny ourselves before even allowing ourselves to really learn.
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Okay, embarrassment has probably destroyed more dreams than lack of talent ever will.
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It is so crazy to me how many people delay their entire lives
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because they're too scared to look stupid or too worried about being judged, even though all of that is temporary.
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But your life changes the moment embarrassment stops being an emotional crutch for you and your desire for more overcomes that.
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It is also a map that shows you what you need to learn next.
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And I think people don't realize that.
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These are the clues that life leaves you.
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But because you interpret failure in a way that's non -constructive, you don't always see the path forward.
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If I'm using myself as an example, when I first started posting on social media, no likes, no views for like months.
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OK, I could have taken it as a sign that it wasn't for me, that I didn't have the type of personality to grow.
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But instead, I told myself I needed to learn more about how social media and digital marketing works.
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I needed to learn more about human psychology and how people think and what people like to consume.
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That created my personal curriculum.
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level up.
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The last tip I have for you for playing this game of life is to avoid NPC mode
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because no one wants to be an NPC where you stop consciously directing your life and start running entirely in automatic programming.
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You wake up, scroll your phone, consume content, compare yourself, feel bad about it, react negatively, and then you ignore your emotions and then you repeat again.
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And suddenly years go by, you're technically alive, but you're not choosing your life.
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Babes, that is a very
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And I think one of the hardest thing about the game of life is realizing
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that a lot of the rules you were taught were never universal truths.
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They were survival strategies or fear -based advice from people who played smaller games than the one you want to play.
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Because if you grew up believing, play it safe.
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Don't ask for too much.
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Don't be unrealistic.
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Just be grateful.
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You end up building a life around limitations instead of possibilities.
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The goal is to live intentionally so you can do your main quest
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and your side quests and max out your skill level and meet really cool people and tell stories and share your knowledge.
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- What?
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Self -awareness is the ultimate cheat code because the moment you become aware of your patterns, you gain the power to change them.
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You can't change a game when you don't know what you're playing.
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But once you see the mechanics, once you see the loops, once you see the programming, you can finally start making different choices.
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At the end of the day, life is going to keep moving whether you learn the rules or not.
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Time will pass.
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Your habits will compound.
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Your environment will shape you. will build your future.
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And the question is, are you going to play consciously
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or spend your whole life accidentally becoming someone you never meant to be?
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So maybe this week, ask yourself, what game am I actually playing right now?
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And am I consciously designing my character or becoming one that was designed for me?
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That's all the cake I have for you today.
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Thank you so much for watching until the end.
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I appreciate it so much.
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And if you enjoyed our Please like, subscribe and leave a comment to share your thoughts and I'll see you in the next episode.
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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « the hidden rules of life ». Cette vidéo contient 200 phrases et 2719 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 16:34. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 164 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 85 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| conscious adjectif | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | conscient |
| consciously adverbe | consciemment | |
| proximity nom | /pɹɒkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/ | proximité |
| meaningful adjectif | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | significatif, qui a du sens |
| compound nom | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | composé |
| disconnect verbe | /dɪskəˈnɛkt/ | débrancher, déconnecter |
| karmic adjectif | /ˈkɑɹmɪk/ | karmique |
| intentional adjectif | /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/ | volontaire, intentionnel |
| attach verbe | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | attacher |
| embarrassment nom | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/ | embarras |
| mechanic nom | /mɪˈkænɪk/ | mécanicien, mécanicienne |
| interpret verbe | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | interpréter |
| consume verbe | /kənˈsum/ | consommer |
| notification nom | /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/ | notification |
| stat adverbe | /stæt/ | maintenant, là |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbe | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | se réveiller |
| end up verbe | se terminer, se finir | |
| go off verbe | exploser | |
| grow up verbe | grandir | |
| look down on verbe | mépriser, regarder de haut | |
| make up verbe | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | constituer, composer |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- Kind of like you're designing your game character, right?
- What message do you want to send when people see you?
- What do I want to focus on first?
- Curiosity means it's genuinely something that interests you.
- That's all the cake I have for you today.
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | being played · is played · are born |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | people who seem · friends who make · people who played |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have realized · has probably destroyed |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 51 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, don't, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, subconscious /sʌbˈkɑn.ʃəs/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: proximity /pɹɒkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: inherit /ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/, haircut /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, heal /ˈhiːl/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, rage /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/, achiever /əˈt͡ʃiːvɚ/, crutch /ˈkɹʌt͡ʃ/, trajectory /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: proximity /pɹɒkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/, karmic /ˈkɑɹmɪk/, embarrassment /ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/, interpret /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/, curiosity /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme conscious, consciously, proximity.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.