Shadowing Practice: Believe in Yourself and Dream Bigger - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Do not be afraid to take risk, you know, and if there's something out there that you feel like you want and you,

you know, fucking go, go, go get it.

The magic of thinking big, it costs you no more to think big than small.

And the moment you change your mind to thinking big, that's what you expect.

Guess what?

Come on.

Just like that remote.

You expect big things, big things come on the TV.

You expect little things, little things is coming.

In life, folks, you cannot change your life unless you change something.

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.

If you're going to do it, do it.

Say what you can do, do what you say.

If you can't do it, don't say you can do it.

Don't over leverage yourself.

Don't over leverage the decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe.

I think I'll try it out.

No, think if you're going to try it out beforehand, but when it's time to go, dive.

Finish it.

Find out.

Come out the other side.

And my personal question to you is why not you?

You've got the brains.

You can make decisions.

You can study the plan.

You can change your life.

You can grow immensely in the next few years

you can make your dreams come true

you can build a financial wall around your family nothing can get through you can become healthy

you can become powerful why not

you you want to reach your goal how to reach the

goal the quickest be focused with your energy meaning be focused

with the mind don't lose the goal from the mind whatever

you do from the moment of waking up until the evening whatever

you do keep the goal in the mind this is the quickest way of making this goal become real

but if you want something bad enough

if you want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something i'll repeat that

if you want something bad enough

you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something not even yourself doubt is such a strange thing

i mean it's um you know there'll be times where you succeed there are times

that you fail so wasting your time doubting whether you're going to be successful or not is pointless

it is you just put one foot in front of the other you control what you can't control

and then you see what the outcome is right

if you win great you're going to have to wake up the next day

and do the journey over again if you lose sucks

but you have to wake up the next day

and do the journey all over again anyway right

so it's really pointless to sit here and debate or have doubt

or just any other you train as hard as you can you step out there

and you let it flow after you lose or

when you get knocked down stay down there for a minute understand why you lost

what were the reasons why are you down here why did you lose why did you get knocked down

because if you just jump right back up you're gonna lose again

and again and you continue you're going to lose the same way.

Don't be afraid to fail.

Because if you're afraid to fail, then you're always holding yourself back because you're afraid that if you go all out, you may fail.

The only thing you can ever do in life is work as hard as you possibly can and never give in.

And he said you've got that choice every single day.

Really simple.

That's it.

The talent you've got, you just work as hard as you can every single day and never give in,

and then you come back the day after and do it again.

In order to train as hard as possible, you must retain a clear image of your purpose.

Once your goal is sharply but realistically defined, all that remains is carrying out your plan.

The focus, the commitment, the dedication to make sure every single day you get up

and you're here and you give your all and you don't give in.

That's the hardest thing in the world.

To get up every day and give 100 % and be in the same position that you were each day,

but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying.

That's a real grind.

Don't, however, worry about your individual potential.

The tension was only the expression of a possibility something that could be assessed accurately only in retrospect

In other words, you'll never know how good you might have become unless you try.

Yeah Okay, how good you are in anything you won't have discipline you ain't nobody right?

Nothing about discipline because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline

But this when he told me discipline do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it

Doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.

That is a great quote.

The quality of self -discipline.

It's the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Did you do what you said you were going to do by this time?

And if you don't, hold your feet to the fire.

I mean just sitting around dreaming someday someday

I'm gonna get a different job someday I'm gonna change this well someday in the day of the week

you know there's Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday look on your counter some days not on there

so you got to say okay I'm gonna take

this small step by here this small step by there this small step by there

and then pretty soon you know we don't leaps tall buildings in a single bound

we take it a floor at a time

that you got to shoot for the top because we go

and really have big goals and think big because then you're going to get big.

Then you're going to go and achieve big things.

That is the most important thing.

We don't achieve big things by accident.

So shoot for the top, shoot for the sky.

If you have a clear picture in your head of something that is going to happen

and a clear belief in that it will happen no matter what, then nothing can stop it.

It is destined to happen and that's what happens.

And the reason that you are not as great as you could be is because you can't take pain.

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The reason that you are aborted is because you get frustrated

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and disappointed with the slow pace of the fulfillment of your desire.

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So you abort the process and wonder why you're a bum on life's highway.

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Like this is what hard feels like and this is why most people don't win.

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So continuing to push through and almost seeing that level of discomfort as a signal, it's like a way marker that's been planted in the ground.

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Yes, more this way.

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Because if it was all just super easy, well, how are you going to get anything different to what everybody else has got

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if you do the same thing that everybody else does?

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And one of the best selectors for people not doing a thing is discomfort.

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So the route that has a lot of discomfort down it usually on the other side of

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that ends up with something which is valuable

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a lot of people can give up it's easy to give up hell yeah

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it's the easiest thing in the world to do all right

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i'm done i ain't going i ain't gonna keep going yeah

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i don't feel like going to work yeah it's easy it's very easy

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but what's hard is going yo yesterday i got nothing from working as hard as i could nothing happened from

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that i'm gonna do the same thing again today but i'm gonna try to go harder.

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Life has to be hard.

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It has to be difficult in some ways.

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It doesn't have to be, shouldn't be traumatic, shouldn't be awful or painful,

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but things have to be hard for you to learn to do hard things.

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And this world, like it or not, is going to demand that you do hard shit if you want to have anything.

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Work on your list of whys.

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One of the big thrusts for success is to come up with a strong enough why.

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In leadership training, here's what we learned.

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If the why is powerful, the how is easy.

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What's the chance of you making a million dollars this year?

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Give me numbers.

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And everyone's like, 0%, 0%, 0%.

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1%.

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There's always 1%.

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It's like 5%.

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And that's like the most it'll get to.

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And I said, okay, I'm gonna give you the most extreme example, but I just want to see what happens.

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Okay.

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What's the percentage chance of you making a million dollars this year legally

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and if you don't everyone that you love dies

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and everyone's like 100 100 a thousand a thousand percent

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i said what changed the goal didn't change the time frame didn't change why you're doing

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it changed would you wake up in the morning if everyone

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that you loves life depended on it

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and be like yeah well maybe i should scroll on tick tock for a little

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while no you'd be like i'm gonna take action immediately and

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so it doesn't need to be like A fear of losing everybody

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but what's really behind that is like why if you stay in your comfort zone?

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That's why you will fail

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You will fail in your comfort zone success is not a comfortable procedure

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It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt

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so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be

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Successful most things are actually significantly easier than people think they are they just don't know how to try hard

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because the harder that you try the easier it gets and

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so it's like

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if you can just learn to love what trying hard feels like then all of a sudden it becomes unreasonable

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that you can't win don't leave it and go oh

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if I just would uh -uh

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that keeps me up at night I think keeps a lot of us up at night

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and you half -ass something you just don't know whether you failed

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or succeeded got what you want or didn't get what you want finding out and looking in the mirror and going,

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I didn't have acid, I went all the way, I found out and that ain't for me.

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Or I found out and you damn right that is for me.

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That's a great place to get to.

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You have to disappear.

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You still go to work, you still show up, but you stop announcing every move and start building something that speaks for itself.

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Disappearing means doing the work.

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It means doing the work in the dark.

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It means building in private what you don't need to prove in public.

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It means doing the work when no one's watching.

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You stop worrying about what people think and start valuing what you believe.

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Because a life that looks good or sounds good is nothing compared to a life that feels good.

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You get to work your butt off.

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If you think that you're going to go and accomplish something really special and be the best in anything in the world,

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and you think you can do it without working, you make a big mistake.

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Because no matter what I did, if it was in bodybuilding or in acting or if it was in the political arena,

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it always took a lot, a lot of work.

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And you got to put out and you got to, you know, something to make a lot of sacrifices and all this.

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If you're not willing to work hard, forget about it.

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Nine -year -old son, John Leslie, and I beat him 10 straight games in a game called Connect Four.

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And finally, I said, John Leslie, I'm bored i don't want to play you anymore

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and i got up i said i'm ready to go to sleep now

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and repeat out to me please let's say to this together it's not over

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until i win

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john leslie said no you can't go now dad i said why he said it's not over until i win

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that was his attitude we sat down and we played several other games

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and finally after the 11th game john leslie won

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and he got up and he yawned

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and he said i'm ready to go to sleep now

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and i'm saying to you what if all of us took

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that attitude after we face a rejection and a no

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or we have a meeting and no one shows up

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or somebody say you can count on me

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and they don't come through what if we have

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that kind of attitude the cause repossessed nobody believes in you you've lost again

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and again and again the lights are cut off

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but you're still looking at your dream reviewing it every day

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and say to yourself

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it's not over until i win persistence is self -discipline in action every time

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you persist you build your self -discipline every time you practice self -discipline you build your ability to persist

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and the two of them are tied into your self -esteem

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so the more you persist the more you like yourself

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and the more you like yourself the more discipline you have

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and the more discipline you have in practice the more you like yourself as a result the more you persist

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and eventually you get onto an upper spiral where you become absolutely unstoppable

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you reach the point where you know you can achieve the goal

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and nothing in the world can stop you and every step

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that you take forward makes you stronger and stronger

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and stronger there is no one like you there has never been anyone like you there shall never be anyone like you

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Therefore, know yourself, be yourself.

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Authenticity is everything.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Believe in Yourself and Dream Bigger”. This video has 206 sentences and 2403 words to shadow. The speech runs for 12:56. The speaker talks fast, about 186 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
discipline noun	/ˈdɪsəplɪn/	A controlled behaviour; self-control.
someday adverb		Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.
persist verb	/pɚˈsɪst/	To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
discomfort noun	/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/	Mental or bodily distress.
comfort noun	/ˈkʌm.fət/	Contentment, ease.
knock verb	/nɑk/	To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
succeed verb	/səkˈsiːd/	To follow something in sequence or time.
uncomfortable adjective	/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/	Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
disappear verb	/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/	To vanish.
leverage noun	/ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/	A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
pointless adjective	/ˈpɔɪntləs/	Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
percentage noun	/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/	The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
mirror noun	/ˈmiɹɚ/	A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
awful adjective	/ˈɔːfʊl/	Very bad.
belief noun	/bɪˈliːf/	Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
give up verb		To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
knock down verb		To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
show up verb		To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
back up verb		To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
carry out verb	/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/	To hold while moving it out.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

If you're going to do it, do it.
I think I'll try it out.
Don't, however, worry about your individual potential.
Then you're going to go and achieve big things.
What's the chance of you making a million dollars this year?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I just would uh
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	could be assessed · is destined · are aborted
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	that's been planted · you've lost · has never been

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 91 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thrust /θɹʌst/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, sharply /ˈʃɑɹpli/
Long words — get the stress right: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, unreasonable /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like discipline, someday, persist.

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