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Hello everyone and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
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My name is Jack Edwards and this week we are going to be taking on self-help books.
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I bought the biggest selling self-help books of all time because myself needs some help.
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The theory is that
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if I read one of these books every single day for seven days then my life should get better, right?
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So firstly we have Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty, followed by The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo,
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The 5am Club by Robin Sharma The 4-Hour Week by Timothy Ferris Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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And finally How to Do Nothing by Jenny O'Dell Each day I'm going to be reading one of these books
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and then incorporating the lessons that it teaches me into my lifestyle.
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So basically, just think of me as like the internet's collective guinea pig.
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We shall see.
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The first book of many that I'm going to be reading this week is quite a controversial one, and that is Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty.
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This claims that it will train my mind for peace and purpose every day.
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Because I've heard such mixed reviews about this, it makes me want to read it even more because I am nosy.
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So I'm going to get started and I'll let you know what I think
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and whether what I think is like a monk.
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Okay, so I'm about halfway through this book now
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and Jay Shetty has just very helpfully suggested that in order to be more productive in the mornings, you could consider waking up an hour earlier than you currently do.
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Fine, that makes sense.
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However, the next sentence says, like waking up at 4am.
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Very bold of you to assume, Jay, that I was already waking up at 5am and not 1pm.
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In fairness to him, though, it does then go on to say that if you struggle with
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that then you could just consider waking up 15 minutes earlier than you currently do
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and making an active effort to do something in that time that's away from your phone.
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And so I'm going to try and spend
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that extra first 15 minutes of my day reading rather than just scrolling through social media.
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Also, he suggests here that we should stop introducing ourselves as our professions.
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So, for example, I'm a lawyer, I'm a doctor, I'm a YouTuber.
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Actually, that is quite embarrassing to be fair.
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So, Jay Shetty, if you're watching, I'm sure you're not.
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Hi, I'm Jack Edwards.
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I'm an attention seeker who overshares in the internet for the validation of strangers.
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He's got rings with.
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He also makes the case for transforming the mundane and by
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that he means instead of tuning out and listening to an audiobook
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or music whilst you do the dishes or tidy your room, you should really really focus on the task at hand.
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So I am going to give that a go.
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Update, just finished doing my dishes with intentionality and mindfulness and it was really really boring.
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I will not be doing that again.
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This book basically is an amalgamation of loads of things
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that you probably already know And then Jay Shetty just puts that into the context of being a monk.
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He covers a lot of ground But without saying anything groundbreaking.
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It's just a bit wishy-washy I do think this could be a good introduction to self-help books
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because it's very accessible and easy to understand It also includes these little boxes with tasks
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that you can do to basically put the principles into practice For example, there's one about envy which encourages you to think like if
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that person was stripped right now of everything that I am jealous of So whether that's money, a job, number of followers, I don't know.
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If all of that was gone right now, would that actually benefit you?
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And the answer is pretty much always no, which means it's not worth your energy to be jealous.
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So that was quite interesting.
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It also talks about how you should detach yourself from material possessions.
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So you don't need to not own anything, but you should not let other things own you.
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He also does a good job of kind of demystifying monks
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and making them feel a lot more human and their quest a lot more attainable.
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Ultimately, it did make me think, would I actually want to be a monk?
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And I think the answer is no. It sounds like a lot of work.
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It sounds like you have to sacrifice pretty much everything
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that makes you happy and completely recalibrate your brain into a whole new paradigm and I've been putting off making dinner.
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It has its moments But ultimately I don't think this is a book I would necessarily recommend.
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On to the next one.
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Good morning It is day two
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and I did actually follow Jay Shetty's advice this morning
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And I set my alarm for 15 minutes earlier than I normally would I used this app called Alarmy
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which basically requires you to scan a barcode in order to shut the thing up
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And so I set the barcode to be the barcode on the back of my book
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so that basically I had the book on my desk
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And then when I woke up this morning I had to get out of bed, scan the barcode to turn the alarm off
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and then I swapped my phone for the book
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And then I read for 15 minutes and actually
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that was a really good start to the day So I would I would recommend that.
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I've just finished reading the second book Which is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
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and this is the kind of book that people say changes their lives And I have several thoughts.
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60% of this book is spent talking about how great
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and important this book is And it's like they were testing the theory that if we keep telling the reader this, eventually they'll believe it.
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What the secret actually is...
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Well, firstly, it's just good marketing.
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By calling something the secret, you basically make it feel like an exclusive club and
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that the people who read this are superior to the normal people out on the street.
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But secondly, it is the law of attraction.
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This is the idea that you will attract the things to you that you manifest.
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And on a fundamental level, I can acknowledge that that would work in the sense that
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if you are constantly thinking about your goals and you always have them in mind, then naturally, instinctively, you will make efforts to achieve them.
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But this book takes that one step further and basically suggests that if you want something, you should behave as if you already have it.
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So, if you want to be a millionaire, it doesn't matter how many zeros are in your bank account or whether your bank account is just zero, you should behave like a millionaire and tell yourself that you can afford anything you want.
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But surely that will just constantly leave you with the crushing reality that you're not actually a millionaire.
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This book also gives some of the most wild, outlandish, outrageous evidence which I don't believe for a single second.
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At one point it suggests that one person who read this book
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and had terrible eyesight started manifesting that they could see in 20-20 vision and then in three days their eyesight was cured.
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And you want me to believe that?
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How is that even legal to print?
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That's either laser eye surgery or lazy writing.
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And I am someone with terrible eyesight.
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I'm 8.25 in this eye, 8.75 in that eye.
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And if you don't know what what that means, you're lucky.
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I obviously have contact lenses in right now, but for the next few days, I'm going to manifest having 2020 vision and we'll see what happens.
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It's officially been three days and I'm cured.
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I can't believe I've been wearing these things since I was three years old
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when I could have just manifested perfect vision in three days.
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Forget spec savers, should have gone to Rhonda Byrne.
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I just went from three blind mice to Stuart Little.
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Thank you, Rhonda, you legend.
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By the way, that's a joke.
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Still can't see shit.
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And whoever told Rhonda Byrne that her book, Cured Their Vision, lied to her several times.
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Ultimately, if you behave in the way that this book encourages you to behave, you will just be a bit of a dick
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because it will make you feel so entitled to success
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when actually life is incredibly complex and things happen unexpectedly that aren't because you're a terrible person, it's just because life gets in the way.
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This book will just make you delusional and it is
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so full of its own self-importance that it is just horrible to read.
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By the way, I don't want you to think that I'm anti-manifestation because I'm not, it's just this book literally claims at one point
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that someone manifested curing their cancer and it worked
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and i just think it's disgusting to even make claims like
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that but on a much less extreme level i'm going to test the theory
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and i'm going to go for a run
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and i'm going to tell myself
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that i am a marathon runner i think it goes without saying
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that i am not in fact a marathon runner
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but i want to see whether
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that mentality will help me on a quick 5k okay i'm back and i am not a marathon runner
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I am not a marathon runner.
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Okay, so imagine I went online and I bought this book secondhand.
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I bought The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo, and this arrives.
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This is The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck.
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Imagine trying to buy a book about decluttering your life and ending up with more clutter.
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Fuming!
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Absolutely fuming!
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Anyway, eventually I managed to get my hands on this, and I just finished reading it.
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And I don't know what planet Marie Kondo lives on, but it isn't this one.
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Marie Kondo comes home every day, empties out her purse, puts everything away as if it's not going to go back in the purse the next day, and then thanks her purse for its services that day.
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At one point, I genuinely turned over the cover to check I wasn't reading the parody.
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Also, she talks to all of her possessions in her house, which at first I would have thought was insanity, but we're like a year into this pandemic and I can kind of see it now.
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Don't get me wrong, there are some really great practical tips about organizing different possessions
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that you have and different parts of your house.
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And basically, her overall principle for decluttering your life is that everything you own should spark joy.
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So, for instance, you should get all of your clothes, put them into a big pile, and then feel each one one by one, speak to them, find their sweet spot, and decide whether that item of clothing sparks joy in your life.
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And if it doesn't, it's in the bin.
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So, I'm gonna try it and we'll see what happens, and I'm also going to tidy my flat because I am feeling quite motivated after reading this.
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So, thanks to Marie Kondo, I now have a tidy living room area and a tidy bedroom.
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This area, I think, was especially urgent and everything now kind of has a place, including my crispy caramel mini bites.
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So I'm currently facing a mountain of my own clothing, which I'm not going to show you because it's embarrassing.
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Let's just say suddenly Mount Kilimanjaro is looking quite manageable, and I'm trying to think about what sparks joy, but then you come to things like my boxes, like do these spark joy?
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I suppose you have to kind of invert the idea sometimes
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because the idea of going commando as the alternative sparks less joy and more chafing.
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I'm all done, I feel like that was quite productive, but I would say I think you you need to take Marie Kondo's advice with a little pinch of salt.
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I guess that's the case for most self-help authors really, but in Marie Kondo's case, if you leave that grain of salt lying around, she will tidy it up.
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This is a no clutter zone, at least for the next 20 minutes.
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The next, whoops!
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The next book is one that I was massively putting off and that is The 5am Club.
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The reason I've been putting this one off is that I don't want to wake up at 5am.
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No part of that is appealing to me.
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5am sounds great in the summer, but right now it is the middle of the winter and it is dark until seven.
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So what the hell am I going to do at 5?
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Also, one of the main benefits of waking up at 5am is that you're awake before anyone else, but I live alone.
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There's no one else here to distract me anyway.
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That being said, this book was actually quite fascinating to read
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and that's because it's a self-help book but it's written as fiction.
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So it follows these two pretty dull characters to be honest
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and they go to a convention where they meet a man who whisks them off to a desert island which, by the way, that is one way you could convince me to wake up at 5am with ease
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and he it basically teaches them the life-changing principles of the 5am club.
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Very little of value is actually said until page 206 and that's when we find out about the 20-20-20 formula.
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Nothing to do with the year 2020 because we are not reliving that.
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So essentially when you wake up at 5am for the first 20 minutes you should move, so you should do some exercise that makes you sweat.
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From 520 to 540 you should reflect, so that could be journaling, planning, contemplating, meditating.
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Then from 540 to 6 you grow, so that could be reading a book, listening to a podcast, etc. So that's actually quite useful and I'm actually going to try and do that tomorrow morning.
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And that period of time is referred to as the victory hour.
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I did have plenty of reservations about a self-help book
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that is written in the style of fiction but actually is really memorable
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because I can think of every step that those characters took because it's a linear narrative.
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So I actually think I took more in from this book than say Think Like a Monk, which is just firing existential questions at you every other page.
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But equally this book is about 300 pages and the actual useful content could be condensed down to about 30 or 40.
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Ah, but then it does stick in your head.
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I'm very conflicted about this book and so tomorrow, thanks to you, I'm going to be setting my alarm for 5am.
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Knowing that I have to get up at 5am tomorrow morning is honestly just making me really sad.
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I don't want to do it!
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5am is the time I like to go to sleep, not wake up.
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But I'm going to do it.
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I'm going to head to bed and I will see you in the morning.
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It's 5am.
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I am not thriving and it's literally still dark outside.
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I'm going to do my exercise, my journaling, and my reading.
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So I did it and I feel shattered.
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Literally look, it's still dark out there.
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And now that I've done my victory hour, it's 6am.
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I don't start work until 9.
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I've got nothing to do.
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The one thing I would say is that it does make you feel very smug.
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Like, I've done all of this before 6am.
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What have you lot done?
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There's no one out there.
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We're back and we're more tired than ever before.
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This is the 4-hour work week by Timothy Ferris, which is going to teach us how to escape the 9 to 5, live anywhere, and join the new rich.
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Tim Ferris posits that the new rich recognized that money is valuable, but not as valuable as time.
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So for example, we have person A who has made 30 pounds and person B who has made 50 pounds.
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Objectively, person B is more rich and has more money.
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However, what if we said
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that person B who has made 50 pounds worked for 10 hours today in order to make that money, whereas person A only works three hours.
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Actually, person A is using their time more effectively and is therefore the new rich.
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Most of this book is about how Timothy Ferris automates his life, so he hires other people to do his dirty work, essentially.
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Mostly, he talks about how you can outsource that work from people abroad who you don't need to pay as much, which I think ethically is a bit problematic.
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And actually the beginning of this book is incredibly difficult to read because it's so obnoxiously written.
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He talks about how his salary used to be £40,000 per year, but he would work 80 hours a week.
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He then completely shifted his lifestyle, outsourced work, basically refused to attend meetings or respond to emails,
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and it's just quite horrible to everyone around him so that they don't bother him with things that aren't completely urgent.
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This makes the people who work with him and for him work more independently and have more agency.
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And now, because of all that, he works only four hours a week but earns 40,000 pounds a month.
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And essentially, he sees time as having value in itself.
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The idea is kind of, are you being productive or just active?
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What if I'm being neither, Timothy Ferris?
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Once you wade through this man's ego and the self-importance of this book, there are actually some good tips.
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For example, he talks about Parkinson's law.
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It's the idea that we adapt the workload that we have based on how much time we have to complete a task.
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So if an essay is due in a week's time, I will use that whole week to work on it and I'll work a lot slower, whereas if it's due tomorrow at 9am,
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I will still get the essay done in the time that I now have before the deadline.
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There's also a very interesting idea about prioritization.
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Okay, say you have a seven hour work day stretching before you like I did today.
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Imagine you got a call at the very beginning of the day telling you
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that there's going to be a family emergency at midday, so you're only going to be able to work three hours today.
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How would you use that time?
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Which tasks on your to-do list would you prioritize
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and do straight away and how would you do them in the most efficient way possible.
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And I tried this theory out today when I was at work and actually it's very useful just in terms of prioritizing, time management, organization, to be thinking about, okay, how can I reach my goal and how can I achieve it right now?
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Timothy Ferris talks about how he has a low information diet so he barely reads any news.
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He also talks about how reading is a waste of time, which is kind of ironic when you've just bought his book.
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And then the end of the book kind of turns into a cheap travel guide.
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And there are good tips
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but it sort of turns into a completely different book at the end so it's a a bit strange.
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Overall, this was worth my time, this was worth reading.
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I don't think you should take everything he says completely literally
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and try not to be insulted when he basically calls you stupid.
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And now, moving on.
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Today is day six.
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I woke up at 5am as planned.
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I did my exercise, I did some journaling, and I did some reading, and then it all went wrong.
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In fact, it went horribly wrong because I accidentally fell asleep for two hours on the sofa.
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And you know what?
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They didn't include that bit in the 5am club.
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Currently learning about investments in the stock market from from something that isn't Animal Crossing, so that's a good development for me.
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Although I did just get to a part in this book
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where the author talks about how he's not actually a good writer, he's just good at marketing and selling books.
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So yeah, feeling really pleased that I have further lined his pocket and fallen into that trap.
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Thank you for asking.
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Feels like a bit of a weird thing to mention in the book.
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Greetings, loved ones.
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Let's take a journey.
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Today's book is Robert T.
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Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
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The picture on the cover is one of Robert Kiyosaki, but really it should be that meme of Paris Hilton where she's like, stop being poor!
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Because that is essentially the message of this book.
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Just stop being poor.
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Robert Kiyosaki's father is highly educated, has a relatively stable income, but he considers him to be a poor dad, which already isn't really true.
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He's middle class.
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Whereas the father of his childhood best friend is not very educated, but pretty well off.
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And his best friend's dad essentially becomes a bit of a mentor to him, so he grows up with the conflicting advice of his poor dad and his best friend's rich dad.
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And essentially what he unpacks and explores is the fact that because parents pass down wisdom and advice.
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The poor stay poor because they're passing down their values to their children
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and the rich stay rich because they're passing down different values to their children.
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This is a self-help book but it's a finance book
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and the cover actually says this is the number one personal finance book of all time.
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What it talks about is investment, having assets over liabilities and also kind of how to avoid tax.
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I would say this is just okay.
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Although there are some good practical tips about investment and that kind of thing, they're not really practical tips that I can do in this video
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because we don't have the time or the funds for investment.
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So that's that on that and now we have one book.
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One book left to go!
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And that book is this one.
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This is called How to Do Nothing and this is by Jenny O'Dell and this, that sounds like my kind of book.
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Not because I don't know how to do nothing, but because I want someone to validate that doing nothing is a good thing.
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So this is about resisting the attention economy and I'm very intrigued to read this one.
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It is the final day of the challenge and I woke up this morning at 5am for the last time.
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I exercised, I journaled, and I started reading this book.
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Today's book is How to Do Nothing by Jenny O'Dell
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and I had an expectation of what this book was going to be like and it was nothing like that, nothing of the sort.
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And this is my own fault completely.
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I based this assumption completely on the title of this book alone
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and I just thought this was going to be a book about hustle culture, about toxic productivity, about this pressure that we put on ourselves to work until we burn out.
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This book was not that, instead this is a book about geobiology, about bird watching, about philosophy, about being alone in nature.
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So I looked online and I feel significantly less stupid now
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because it seems like a lot of people also made the mistake of thinking this book was something that it's actually not.
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One of the reviews
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that I read of this book described it as going for
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a walk with your loony hippie friend who is simultaneously overeducated
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and also a zen crackhead and I could not have said it better myself.
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So assumptions aside, one thing I really did enjoy about this book is
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that firstly it's so current
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and up to date in terms of how social media is a major part of our lives
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and it talks about how social media, because it's so current and active and right now, sort of makes us feel like we always need to share our opinion and it has to be either positive or negative, we can never just be neutral.
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This book is about the importance of sometimes just listening and saying nothing.
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What made this a little bit difficult is that there's
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so many tangents and philosophical discussions that it just gets a bit tedious and you kind of find yourself skim reading.
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It feels a bit like intellectual snobbery, like you're not meant to understand, it's meant to prove how clever the author is.
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So for me personally it wasn't my cup of tea but for you it could be your whole kettle.
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So what have I learned about self-help books this week.
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I think I learned that it's very tiring trying to constantly help yourself
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and be productive and be perfect all of the time.
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I learned that self-help books almost assume
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that you are already at least middle class and also that I don't think any one self-help book should be your bible.
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You shouldn't see any of them as kind of scripture and follow everything it says to the line.
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It's better to take ideas from each of the books that you encounter and adapt them to your personal lifestyle.
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For example, waking up 15 minutes earlier and doing something not on my phone was good, but waking up at 5am was not for me.
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But the 20-20-20 formula is a good one.
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I would just rather do it at 7.30, not 5.
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I also learned incredibly interesting tips from the 4-hour work week.
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Do I want Timothy Ferris's lifestyle?
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No. But could I adapt parts of his lifestyle to mine?
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Yes, absolutely.
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I think the most interesting observation of this book is
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that most people work their whole lives so that they can have a nice retirement, whereas the new rich strive to enjoy every year and every moment of their life,
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so they spend the money that they're earning to to make sure that today is fun.
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And our time does have value because it's finite.
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Not to be too morbid, but you could die next week and you want to make sure
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that every year that you lived was fun and enjoyable and not just working towards a future that isn't even certain.
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Equally, parts of Rich Dad Poor Dad kind of resonated with me
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because it spoke about how some people think of their careers as always working in one industry, always working for one company, whereas other people may choose to move around and try new things constantly.
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And I think that's kind of how I would like to live my life and my career.
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So which ones would I recommend?
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Let's do Snog, Mary avoid.
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Snog Mary condo avoid.
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Books I would avoid.
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I think this goes without saying, but The Secret, this will make you completely delusional.
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You'd be better just researching the law of attraction in your own time and if you really really want to consume this, there is a film version on Netflix which is probably a bit better.
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Also, Jenny, I hate to say it but I think How to Do Nothing would also be an avoid for me.
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This is a book written for the intelligentsia.
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I think there's a level of intellectual snobbery here, like I just don't think this book was written for ordinary people to be able to comprehend
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and i think we've all been sort of misled by the title, which isn't the author's fault but um yeah it's not what you think it will be.
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Books I would snog.
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The 5am club i think is the one
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that you kiss in a nightclub
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and it seems like a great idea at the time
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but then you regret it the next morning but fundamentally it's bad fiction and mediocre self-help.
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Another snog is going to be Rich Dad Poor Dad.
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This is the person who you kiss but they're just a bit too old for you.
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It's a little bit dated, it mostly just talks about why you should invest.
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And now we get on to books I would marry.
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Of course, I would marry Marie Kondo.
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These are tips that are a little bit wacky
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but they keep you on your toes
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and you want to keep coming back to them because they're comforting and their heart is in the right place.
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Think Like a Monk is stable, it's helpful, it makes you consider every single area of your life but I think it's more than just a fling.
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And finally, The 4-Hour Workweek.
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I think I would marry this book because you've got a lot to learn from it, it's got some good advice, it will help you find meaning in your life
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but I think you would divorce it after a couple of years because its ego is freaking huge.
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I do also have some honorary mentions which I didn't read in this video but I would recommend.
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In November I read Drive by Daniel H Pink
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and this is a book about motivation and how it needs to be intrinsic, it needs to come from within.
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It is a little bit repetitive, it could have made the point in 50 pages but it does it in 250 instead.
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이 비디오는 누구를 위한 것인가요?

영어 회화 연습을 하며 일상적인 대화 표현을 배우고 싶은 중급 이상 학습자에게 좋습니다. 특히 IELTS 스피킹 준비생이나 자연스러운 발음을 연습하고 싶은 분들에게 유용한 내용이 많아요. 화자인 잭의 재치 있는 이야기 방식을 통해 자기계발 책에 관한 다양한 의견을 듣고, 그 과정에서 사용된 구어체 표현을 쉽게 흡수할 수 있습니다.

빼놓을 수 없는 단어와 관용구

  • guinea pig: 실험용 새끼돼지, 여기서는 "실험대상"이라는 뜻으로 사용됩니다. "나를 인터넷의 집단 guinea pig로 생각해주세요"처럼 말해요.
  • wishy-washy: 막연하고 불분명한. "이 책은 wishy-washy해서 새롭게 알게 된 게 없어요"처럼 표현합니다.
  • spark joy: 기쁨을 불러일으키다. 마리 콘도의 "스파크 조이" 원칙으로 유명한 표현이에요. "이 옷이 나에게 spark joy를 주는지 생각해봐요"

발음을 올바르게 하는 방법

영어 발음 교정에 집중하고 싶다면 잭의 발음을 따라 shadow speak 연습을 해보세요. 그는 빠르지만 명확한 구어체 발음을 사용하며, 연속음과 축약형을 많이 씁니다. 예를 들어 "I'm gonna" (I am going to), "don't know" (don't know) 등의 발음을 주의깊게 듣고 따라해보세요. 특히 "the"의 발음은 뒤에 오는 단어가 모음으로 시작할 때 "디"로, 자음으로 시작할 때 "더"로 발음된다는 점을 확인할 수 있어요. 이를 통해 자연스러운 영어 쉐도잉 실력을 키울 수 있습니다.

또한, 문장의 intonation도 중요합니다. 잭은 이야기를 할 때 재미있는 부분에서는 올라가는 톤을, 비판적인 부분에서는 내려가는 톤을 사용해 감정을 표현합니다. 이를 모방하며 영어 회화에서 감정을 전달하는 방법도 배울 수 있답니다.

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
현재완료진행 have/has been + -ing — 전에 시작해 지금도 계속되는 동작I've been taking · I've been putting · I've been wearing
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때I've heard · I've just finished · It's officially been
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점was stripped · is spent · was cured
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보people who click · book Which is · people who read

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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