Shadowing Practice: How to Build a Mind That Nothing Can Defeat - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What I'm about to say may challenge everything you believe about your struggles, about your setbacks, and even your success.
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And understanding this, truly understanding this, will change your life.
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Because it will change the thing that determines your life, your mind.
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You see, what makes people achieve success and create meaning in their lives, it has been studied for thousands of years.
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And at its simplest, there are two types of people.
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The ones who feel beaten by life they are tired they complain they blame
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and they're just getting by
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and the other kind of people are the ones who create
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in their life they turn their setbacks into comebacks their struggles into strength they experience success
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and they seem able to find joy in their journey
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and the difference between these two people it is not genetics
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it is not how smart they are it is not how well connected they are
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or how wealthy they are the difference is in their mental conditioning
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and their ability to see through difficulty with an optimistic eye
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and take action from a place of faith faith in themselves
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faith in their vision faith in uncertainty rather than take action from a place of fear
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and a well-conditioned mind won't protect you from failure
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but it protects you from being defeated by it and
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that is the foundation for lasting success i've spent nearly 20 years studying this one thing
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that produces everything and the people who have experienced extraordinary results in their life
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or created extraordinary impact in the world they did not walk an easy path
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but they developed an unshakable mindset
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that was built to walk the hard one with greater ease
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they were mentally conditioned for the task they welcome challenge they
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expect failure as a necessary companion to success they leverage their
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setbacks using them as feedback pressure didn't overpower them it refined them
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and they were able to take action long enough for it to compound into success
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and you can do the same you can build the mind
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to match your ambition you can train your mind to support
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you on your journey to success rather than sabotage you along the way
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but to do this you first have to ask what are the dominant patterns that are currently guiding your mind
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Are they patterns of worry, doubt, comparison, resentment, regret?
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Or are they patterns of gratitude, love, focus, belief, desire, trust?
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Whichever one of these it is, know that it is not fixed.
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It can be changed.
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You can change your mind because your mind is programmable.
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It is influenceable.
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Now, some people may say we're vulnerable to influence, especially when it comes to seeing things online
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but the only way you are vulnerable to influence is if you are not the one designing it.
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The fact that our mind is influenceable is the single greatest thing about our mind
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because it means it can be changed and you can decide how you want to change it.
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You can design and condition it so
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that it automatically produces the results you want and in this video I am going to show you how.
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Hi, I'm Jodi Jackson, a neuro conditioning specialist who uses neuroscience to train your brain for high performance
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so that you can rewire reality for the results you most want.
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So let's start with something we need to understand about your mind.
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It is being conditioned all the time.
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It is always being influenced by something.
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Every conversation you have, every person you spend time with, every book you read, every piece of media you watch, every thought you repeatedly tell yourself,
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all of it is conditioning your mind.
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And you can be so intentional about the goals that you set for yourself, but so unintentional about building the mind to actually support them.
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And everything you want in your life depends on the mind producing it.
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Your confidence, your creativity, your resilience, your relationships, your income, your impact, your success.
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None of these exist independent to the mind creating them.
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And your mind is the only reliable vehicle to master in your life.
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And it's not just because it gives you a better experience of life, but also because it's the vehicle to help you build a better one.
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What you believe affects what you attempt.
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What you focus on, it affects what you see.
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What you expect affects how you show up.
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And how you repeatedly act affects the results you get.
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So when you change the mind, you don't just change how you feel about your circumstances, you change your capacity to create new ones.
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And the first thing you need to begin training your mind is to know what you want.
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What is your purpose?
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What's your desire?
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What is it that you want to be, want to do, or want to have.
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Every single person who builds a mind strong enough to carry their vision has to have a vision to carry.
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Without a purpose, it's like a ship without a destination.
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It can drift with the ties.
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It can drift with the winds.
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It can be moving and still going nowhere.
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But if you wake up knowing what you want, seeing the vision of what is possible, and being connected to the meaning behind why,
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having a compelling future is what keeps you moving through resistance is what makes discomfort tolerable and effort meaningful.
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To build an unstoppable mind, you must first know what you want and write it down every day.
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What you write, you invite.
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What you don't, you won't.
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So write it down.
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The next thing you need is an unwavering belief
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that you will achieve it and you need to act in accordance with that belief.
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Action is the bridge between vision and reality and belief is the bridge between vision and action, right?
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Vision, belief action results.
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Act with belief in your vision, right?
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When you keep your focus, when you are able to out-rehearse negative thinking with positive possibility and know how to guide your mind towards your goals, something amazing happens.
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What you need to achieve what you want begins to appear.
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People begin to appear.
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Opportunities start to show up.
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Or maybe I should say you begin to notice the people.
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Notice the opportunities.
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Notice the solutions.
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Because once you give your brain a destination, it starts searching for ways to help you get there.
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And that is because you have a part of your brain, it's called the reticular activating system.
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And you can think of it like your internal algorithm, just like social media learns what you're interested in and start showing you more of it.
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Your brain learns what matters to you and it starts bringing more of it to your attention.
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It starts filtering reality in favor of that goal.
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What you focus on expands.
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So at all times you must keep your vision and your thinking in line with what it is that you want.
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What you think about, you bring about.
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And doubt, worry, fear, they will sabotage your ability to materialize it.
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If you entertain these thoughts too regularly, they begin to guide your actions away from the very thing that you want.
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So you must do mental maintenance.
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Watch your language.
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Watch the things you say to yourself, about yourself, about your goals.
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And when your mind starts drifting into some stinking thinking, into fear, doubt, comparison, resentment, shift your focus immediately to gratitude,
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belief towards your compelling future and say to yourself in your head or out loud, there is an incredible power within the human spirit and that power lives within me.
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I am a walking miracle.
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I'm made from the same elements that form the stars and I'm powered by the same intelligence that runs through nature.
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I will never underestimate what I am capable of when I decide, believe and act.
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I was not made to live within the limits of what has been.
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I was made to create what could be.
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Speak power into your soul every single day.
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And for those of you who still effortlessly slip into negative thinking, who struggle to stay positive, know that it's just a conditioned habit.
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It can be reconditioned.
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It can be retrained.
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Whatever program that you have running, it can be reprogrammed.
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And the key to reprogram your habits of thinking are repetition and emotion.
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And know that whatever thoughts your mind repeatedly selects, your life will ultimately reflect.
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and as you are building this unstoppable mind you must also
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learn how to guard it control what goes in feed your
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mind with intention turn your mental feed into mental fuel right
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what you say what you read what you watch allow it
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to feed your belief feed your sense of possibility lift your
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mood empower your mindset pull you forward inspire yourself daily deeply until it's embedded within you
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that it has no option but to be the thing
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that is expressed from you as you and by the way
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if this is why you're here subscribe to this channel do
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not leave your mental diet to the algorithm choose what gets
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your attention decide what goes in your mind decide what beliefs you build
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because your mind doesn't care if your beliefs limit you
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or empower you the only thing your mind cares about is
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which is more dominant and the most dominant is just the most rehearsed so what are you rehearsing Fear, doubt, what if it doesn't work?
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Or belief, possibility, what if it actually works?
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Your inner dialogue is either the scaffolding for your success or it is the thief of your dreams.
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And you have to train your inner dialogue.
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Condition your mind like a muscle.
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Take even three minutes each morning to speak life into your vision.
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Close your eyes right now and imagine just seeing your vision and asking yourself the question, what if it actually works?
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See what it looks like and feels like to have got the result that you want.
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What's the feeling that you'll experience when this actually works?
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Pride?
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Relief?
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Fulfillment?
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Peace?
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Confidence?
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And notice what qualities you built in yourself to make it work.
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Tenacity, resourcefulness, courage, heart, connection, creativity.
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What have you built within yourself?
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And notice who else benefits from this actually working.
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Your clients?
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Your family?
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Your friends? whose life is better because you took action and made it work, and what becomes possible in your life because it actually worked.
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And just take a moment to experience it being possible for you.
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Experience what it means to you and whose life improves through you.
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And from this point in the future where it's all worked, look back at the you sitting in this chair with your eyes closed in this moment
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and imagine this voice coming from the future you, looking at the present you to say thank you.
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Thank you for believing in me.
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Thank you for taking action.
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Thank you for getting us here.
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Thank you for making it work.
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And then when you're ready, just open your eyes.
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How would it feel to operate from that mentality, right?
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And even say to yourself now, I am fully capable of creating my goals.
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I am tenacious.
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I am resourceful.
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I will always find a way, right?
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Whatever it is, whatever you need to say to yourself, make it relevant to you and say it again and again and again.
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Out-rehearse your self-doubt with self-certainty.
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And just like you trust that a muscle grows through charged repetition, so too do the muscles of your mind
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and just like your physical excellence is built through what you feed your body
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and how you train your muscles your mental excellence is built by what you feed your mind
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and how you train your thoughts you need to build the
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mind as i said before a well-conditioned mind it won't protect you from failure
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but it protects you from being defeated by it
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and even one step further it helps you find meaning from it if you sincerely believe that what you want is possible, then there is no failure.
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There is only success or feedback.
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And every time you experience feedback, it gives you the opportunity to create more mental muscle because you're having to practice receiving it as feedback.
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And you will get a lot of feedback.
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Do not see it as a stop sign.
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See it as a signal that you are growing beyond your current capacity.
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And just know if it doesn't come right away, a delay is not a denial.
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A redirect is okay.
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You can pivot.
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You can be flexible in how you get there
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because the only thing that is worth being inflexible about is that you will get there.
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This is how you become unstoppable.
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You grow stronger every time you get knocked
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and don't worry about what reality looks like now as you're taking action to create a new one
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because when you lift weights it makes you feel weak when it's really building strength.
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When you start to run it makes you feel unfit even though what you're actually building is endurance
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and when you start training your mind, it can make you feel like you lack control when it's the very thing that you are building.
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Because life doesn't necessarily get easier, but you get stronger.
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So it feels easier.
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And this is how.
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You become harder to discourage, faster to recover, more willing to act, more capable of seeing possibility where once you saw limitation.
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And eventually the mind that once stood between you and the life that you wanted becomes the mind capable of creating it.
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And this power is already within you.
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It is only up to you to develop it.
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And you develop it by making the decision to.
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The decision to lead your mind and learn how to.
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We all have that inner voice.
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No matter how quiet it may seem at times, we all have that voice that says, I know there is more in me.
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I refuse to give up on myself.
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And training your mind, it is in service of that voice.
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You are already on your way as soon as you start training the invisible patterns of your mind
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because they are the things that produce the visible results in your life.
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And if you want to direct your life, you have to learn how to first direct your mind.
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And if you want to start training, join me inside the Master Your Mind Accelerator.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Build a Mind That Nothing Can Defeat”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: belief, vision, success, action. This video has 205 sentences and 2453 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:24. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| rehearse verb | /ɹɪˈhɝs/ | To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. |
| setback noun | /ˈsɛtbæk/ | An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome). |
| unstoppable adjective | /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/ | Unable to be stopped. |
| drift noun | /dɹɪft/ | Anything driven at random. |
| compel verb | /kəmˈpɛl/ | To overpower; to subdue. |
| influenceable adjective | Capable of being influenced. | |
| repetition noun | /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ | The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated. |
| reprogram verb | To program anew or differently. | |
| empower verb | /ɪmˈpaʊ.ə/ | To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. |
| resentment noun | /ɹɪˈzɛnt.mənt/ | Anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one or one's group has been wronged or betrayed by others; indignation. |
| sabotage noun | /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/ | A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction… |
| mindset noun | /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/ | A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one. |
| gratitude noun | /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ | The state of being grateful. |
| creativity noun | /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/ | The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product. |
| algorithm noun | /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/ | A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| run through verb | To summarise briefly. | |
| see through verb | To perceive visually through something transparent. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What is your purpose?
- What you don't, you won't.
- What's the feeling that you'll experience when this actually works?
- What have you built within yourself?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | has been studied · being defeated · was built |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been studied · i've spent · have experienced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | ones who feel · ones who create · people who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 25 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, doesn't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, tenacious /təˈneɪʃəs/, unintentional /ˌʌnɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: unstoppable /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/, effortlessly /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.li/, materialize /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/
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 rehearse, setback, unstoppable.
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.