Shadowing Practice: CARRY YOURSELF LIKE A KING (Jim Rohn Seminar) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I tried to tell Mr. Shoaff when I met him, age 25, you know, they don't pay very well, and he said, that's not the issue.
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What they pay is not the issue.
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I always thought it was up until I was 25.
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He said, no, what you're worth is the issue.
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You've got to be careful of the enemies that threaten yourself.
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Yes, we must beware of the thief in the alley that's after the purse, but what about the thief in your mind that's after your promise?
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the thief in your mind that says you're too short the thief in your mind
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that says oh you're too tall the thief in your mind
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that says you're too old you're too young you've never done
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it before what gives you any reason to believe
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you can do it in the future
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you've never changed up until now what gives you any kind of an excuse
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that you can change for the future what is
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that insidious whispering even in our own head
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that tells us we can't change we can't grow
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we can't become more valuable we've messed up in the past
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we're bound to mess up in the future i'm telling it's called the enemy within your own self
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and here's what you must do deal harshly with
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that side of your nature if you don't deal harshly with
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that side of your nature it'll deal harshly with you
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so i'm asking you to deal harshly with your enemies lest
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they deal harshly with your bank account they deal harshly with your heart
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they deal harshly with your health they deal harshly with your future
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they deal harshly with your relationship with your family a little bit of discipline is easy to curtail discipline unmanaged
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or left let go telling you starts to ruin everything
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it touches indifference indecision is an enemy indecision is the thief of opportunity
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a little bit of indecision and there goes the opportunity the time is missed the door is closed
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the call is unmade a little bit of indecision i'm telling you
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you say well what if i make the wrong decision it's better than no decision at all
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just get off the fence somebody said what
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if it's the wrong side you can always get back on the other side
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but on the fence no progress guys on the fence saying giddy up giddy up no
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you got to giddy off deal harshly with your enemies the enemy of procrastination it's one of my worst enemies.
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I'm one of the world's great procrastinators for all that I've done and accomplished around the world.
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I'm telling you, I have to fight it continually.
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I'm a great procrastinator.
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I'm so good at it, I can teach it.
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Pessimism.
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I'm telling you, that inclination to get you to see only the dark side, the problem side, the difficult side, that it can't be done side.
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Yes, there's both sides to the issues.
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Yes, the glass is half empty, but it's also Half full.
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You've got to deal with your own pessimism.
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Pessimism will try to get you to believe the elevator only runs one way down.
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You've got to say pessimism.
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That's foolish.
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Why do they call it elevator?
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Key phrase.
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We must all suffer one of two pains.
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The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
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And whatever you do, don't trade regret for discipline.
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discipline weighs ounces regret weighs tons you cannot change the seasons
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they are set however you can change yourself that's the miracle not trying to rearrange the seasons
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or hope for a better season the key is to change yourself we can't change what happens to us
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but we can certainly change what we do about it anybody can get stronger
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if you do the push -ups you'll get stronger
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if you put yourself through the necessary disciplines
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you can get stronger wiser anybody can get wiser read the next book
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and you're wiser take the next class
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and you're wiser pay attention to your notes
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and let it go through your own mind
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and you're wiser put some experience with it
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and you're much wiser come back from a day of high activity
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and you're much wiser contact people and you become wiser we can all become wiser
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so that we can handle the experiences whatever they are winter times challenging times
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and number three anybody can get better i've gotten better
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you can get better by influence we all can get better by association we all can get better
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and if we'll pay attention
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and not let ourselves slip on a slippery slope less self -esteem
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we can all get better the mind has to be fed can't be starved some people read
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so little they got rickets of the mind not enough nourishment of the mind not enough substance not enough stuff
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for the mind to flourish
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and remember the miracle of your future is not worked out
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by the body the miracle of your future is worked out by the mind
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this is where you've got to come to grips with decisions
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this is where you've got to recognize an opportunity
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this is where perception needs to flourish where refinement needs to be a part of your experience
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now without this i'm telling
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you you can make too many mistakes waste too many years
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not be much further ahead 10 years from now than you are right now unless you work and nourish the mind.
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Your personal development library's got to be well balanced.
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Somebody says, well, I just buy the positive stuff.
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You can't do that.
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You won't have good balance.
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You can't live on mental candy and mental ice cream.
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You've got to have the spinach for the mind.
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You've got to have the vitamins.
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You've got to have the enzymes.
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You've got to have the full range.
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Make the note, your library should be like the pantry in your kitchen, well -balanced, the full menu for a healthy mind,
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just like a healthy body.
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You've got to have the full range, not just inspiration.
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because we must ponder major life issues, not just be inspired.
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We must think to make wise decisions.
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You can't just get excited to make wise decisions.
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We lack not capacity, only teachers.
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Everyone here has the capacity to do extraordinary things.
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You may not have the teachers yet, but you don't lack the capacity.
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Kids don't lack the capacity.
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Guess how many languages a child can learn?
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As many as you'll take the time to teach them.
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Kids in Europe speak four, five, six, seven languages.
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kids don't lack capacity only teachers in time
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and give yourself the credit you do not lack the capacity you've got the capacity to be rich wealthy
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and powerful you've got the capacity to be healthy
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you've got the capacity to influence other people you've got the capacity to spin out
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enterprise companies corporations organizations future unlimited you've got the capacity
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but all you've got to do is nourish that capacity take advantage of
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that capacity feed it properly so
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that it feeds back to you ideas that'll bless your life forever we all need a good physical support system
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if you want to be successful physical is part of it
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and here's one of the best bits of advice
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I've got comes from ancient scripture
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it says treat your body like a temple good choice of words treat your body the house you live in
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that gives you life support, helps to make dreams come true.
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Treat it like a temple.
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A temple meaning something you would take extremely good care of.
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Good choice of words.
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Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed.
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There's an ancient script that says many times the spirit is willing, but the body's weak.
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See, what a sad combination that is.
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A willing spirit and a weak body.
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It's tragic.
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You wake up in the morning, the mind says, let's go get them.
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The body says, I can't even get out of bed.
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One of these days you got to say, body, that's the last time you tell me you can't get out of bed.
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I'll drive you to the health food store.
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I'll make you read every book that's ever written on nutrition.
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I'll choke vitamins down you until you go cross -eyed.
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This is the last time you're going to say, I cannot support you and make dreams come true.
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Never again.
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will I allow you to be an anchor, to be a drag, you are now going to support me 100%.
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You've got to take charge even of your own body and make sure you've got a healthy support system working for you.
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A lot of people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.
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So just take care of that.
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Study nutrition.
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Do the exercises.
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And don't be too lazy to do it because the key is not in the study.
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The key is in the doing.
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I lost my mom about six years ago.
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But the doctor said, you know, you could have lost your mother 15, 20 years ago.
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How she lived this long is a miracle.
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He said the walls of your mother's heart were paper thin.
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It's a miracle she's lived this long.
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But I knew part of the miracle.
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Something told my mother way back when I was just a kid that if she didn't take good care of herself,
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she wouldn't live long, which was true.
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So mama started studying nutrition, vitamins, minerals, trace minerals.
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Back then, what was a trace mineral?
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enzymes, amino acids.
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I mean, mama knew all that.
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She studied it.
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Some of that stuff she mixed up.
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I'm an only child, right?
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She mixed it up for me and papa.
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She said, if this stuff don't kill us, I think it'll help, right?
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You know, we're gagging down the stuff. But guess what?
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Did wonder for my My mother gave her an extra 15, 20 years.
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And my father, 92, no illnesses.
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My daughter's 34, 35, no illnesses.
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I passed the big 5 -0 a long time ago, no illnesses.
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I got grandkids, no illnesses.
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Mama taught us well.
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So I'm telling you, pay attention here.
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Make your body become a physical, supreme physical support system to help pull off your dreams for the future.
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And don't settle for anything less.
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Talk about personal development what it takes to be valuable in the marketplace.
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Part of our value in the marketplace is how we appear.
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You got to take care of that.
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There's another ancient script says, God looks on the inside, people look on the outside.
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What a good bit of information.
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So you got to take care of the inside for God, you got to take care of the outside for people.
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Someone says, well, people shouldn't judge you by your appearance.
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Well, let me give you a clue.
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They do.
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You can't deal in these shoulds and shouldn'ts.
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You'll be upside down for the rest of your life.
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Now, when people get to know you, of course, they'll judge you by more than what they see.
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But at first, they're going to take a look.
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And here's the best advice I've got on that.
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Make sure the outside is a true reflection of the inside.
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Prepare the inside for the future.
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Still the chaos.
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Create value inside, but then let it reflect outside.
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So that we can not only hear it, we can not only feel it, we can see it.
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The physical part.
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Be conscious of self, but not self -conscious.
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You don't have to, you know, spend eight hours be a bodybuilder.
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Right?
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You don't have to, you know, take it to the extreme, right?
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Unless that's your profession or unless you're into that sort of thing.
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Just enough, I'm telling you, an hour a day, 45 minutes a day, watching your diet.
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The physical part is vitally important to your future.
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But be conscious of self and then just let it go.
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Do the best you can, dress the best you can, look the best you can, smell the best you can.
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But then don't worry about it.
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Just do the best you can and forget it.
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Okay, conscious of self but not self -conscious.
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One ancient writer said, I've learned to be both ambitious and content.
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See, that's called the ultimate in striving for something unique.
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Most greatly ambitious people are not that content and most content people are not that ambitious.
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But here's the best to see
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if you can strive for the best of both worlds to blend ambition with also being content.
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Powerful.
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There's an ancient script that says we should be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove.
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Now, the big challenge is they don't usually go together.
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People that are as wise as a serpent are not usually as harmless as a dove,
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and people that are as harmless as a dove are not usually as wise as a serpent.
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But here's what it says.
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Strive to be both.
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That's where the ultimate summit kind of living is, is to be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove.
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To be powerful and gentle.
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So in the harvest, number one, do not complain.
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Take responsibility.
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But here's the other one.
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In the harvest, do not apologize if you've done well.
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No complaint if you haven't done well because it's your crop and no apology if you have done well.
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If you have operated enlightened self -interest so that everybody wins, when harvest time comes and you've done extremely well, you don't need to apologize.
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If you have served well, you don't need to apologize.
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If you've made a fortune serving well, you don't need to apologize for the fortune.
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You don't need to feel guilty about it.
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You don't need to feel bad about it.
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You should be proud of it.
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So here's the highest of maturity.
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No complaint and no apology.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “CARRY YOURSELF LIKE A KING”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: capacity, harshly, wiser. This video has 224 sentences and 2341 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:21. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
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. |
| miracle noun | /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/ | An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin. |
| thief noun | /ˈθiːf/ | One who carries out a theft. |
| conscious adjective | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. |
| temple noun | /ˈtɛm.pl̩/ | A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith. |
| illness noun | /ˈɪl.nəs/ | An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health. |
| apologize verb | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends |
| harmless adjective | /ˈhɑɹmləs/ | Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe. |
| dove noun | /doʊv/ | A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred… |
| regret verb | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ | To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. |
| script noun | /skɹɪpt/ | A writing; a written document. |
| mama noun | /ˈmɑmə/ | Synonym of mother (“a female parent”). |
| fence noun | /fɛns/ | A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc. |
| nutrition noun | /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/ | The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance. |
| harvest noun | /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ | The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| come back from verb | To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc. | |
| get off verb | To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| go together verb | To be in a relationship. | |
| mix up verb | To mix or blend thoroughly and completely. | |
| pull off verb | To remove by pulling. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- He said, no, what you're worth is the issue.
- I'm telling you, I have to fight it continually.
- I'm so good at it, I can teach it.
- You've got to deal with your own pessimism.
- You've got to say pessimism.
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 you do the push -ups you'll get |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've never done · you've never changed · we've messed |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is missed · can't be done · are set |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | long, which was · People that are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 104 contractions and reduced forms, such as you've, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thief /ˈθiːf/, thin /ˈθɪn/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/
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, miracle, thief.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.