Shadowing Practice: How To Change Your Life Forever (Jim Rohn) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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philosophy major determining factor in how your life works out each person's philosophy is like the set of the sail
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The same wind blows on us all
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The difference in where we arrive at the end of the
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week at the end of the month at the end of the year is not the wind that blows
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And the wind is blowing around the world
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But what's going to make the major difference each person's personal philosophy that sets a better sail?
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not going to occur don't ask for better seed
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and soil all you got's what's available don't curse what you
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got on this planet all we got is the seed that's
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here the soil that's here the miracle of life that's here the opportunity that's here the seasons
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that are here that's all we got whatever you do don't
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criticize all you got the key is to set a better sail
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and turn what you've got into the miracle of your future
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don't wish it was easier wish you were better don't wish for problems,
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wish for more skills, that kind of philosophy.
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I'm asking you to develop your own personal philosophy.
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Get your business philosophy going.
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Get your financial plan going.
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Don't violate the conclusions of your own philosophy by not executing and taking action.
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Here's how to really cash in on this year.
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Number one, get serious.
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Life is serious.
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We call it life or death.
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It's serious whether you win or lose.
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It's serious whether you succeed or fail.
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It's serious whether you've got a good future carved out for yourself or you do not have.
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These are serious matters.
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Matters of the heart are serious.
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Matters of income are serious.
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Matters of supporting your family, serious.
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Life is serious.
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The future is serious.
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from those who can reach such incredible heights
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and those who haven't yet found the answers for their life and their health and their future.
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We just have to ponder that and let that give us a note of seriousness.
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And we're dealing with some serious matters here.
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So we can't just, you know, tell the latest ten jokes and just go home.
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We're not here to entertain.
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We're here to grow.
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We're here to learn.
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We're here to get the best we possibly can.
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Serious.
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And I'm asking you to take it serious.
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Take your own future serious.
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This is serious business.
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So that's the first thing I want to bring to you.
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Number one was get serious.
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Here's number two get smart Don't miss the opportunity to learn take a good key phrase home use it in your training.
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Don't be lazy and learning
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Don't be casual and learning Develop a whole new intensity for the 90s that you're not going to miss the information.
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You're not going to miss the stories You're not going to miss the details possibility for life change starts with education.
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Don't be lazy in learning.
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Don't be lazy in picking up the ideas.
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Learning is the beginning of wealth.
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Learning is the beginning of life change.
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That's what these journals are for.
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That's what pad and pencils for.
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That's what taking notes is for.
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See if you can't increase your ability to comprehend ideas, information that can be life transforming.
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Get smart.
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Don't miss the training.
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class.
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You say, well, I've already been to one of those classes.
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I've already heard it.
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I've got a good phrase for you to take home.
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That's no sign you got it.
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Just because you've listened to those millionaire tapes one time, it's no sign you've got it.
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I'm asking you to listen to them over and over and over.
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I'm asking you to dedicate yourself to a new level of learning.
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Get smart.
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Here's a couple of parts to it.
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Number one, your own personal experience.
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for a while study it see
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if you can't pick up some ideas from a poor week and then make a better week
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learn from your own experiences one way to learn to do
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it right is do it wrong i mean you know that's
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one way to learn to do it right do it wrong now the key is don't let it take too long
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when i travel with mark hughes he's got his book open he's got a book open he's reading he's studying
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Study learn grow change develop never let it be said you didn't learn Right if you want to solve your problems, you got to learn you want to take advantage of an opportunity.
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You got to learn But that's number two get smart Here's number three get going
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As smart as you might become after these two days as many ideas as you take away from here
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They're truly as Larry mentioned like seeds to be planted in the soil going.
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You got to take action.
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Letters you haven't written, conversations you haven't had with your family, somebody you should sit down with when you get back home, get that job done.
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Don't let neglect destroy your days, destroy your life and destroy your future.
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Go back and do what you can.
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And if you'll do what you can, then life will give you some extraordinary things to do.
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You got to take care of the small disciplines before life will give you a chance to handle
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And here's how to get the miracle of your future going as far as disciplines are concerned.
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Number one, do what you can.
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You might go home and set a whole new pace for yourself and we call it cleaning up neglect.
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Do not disregard the smallest of disciplines.
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Let us not neglect.
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Do not neglect the smallest of disciplines and build on that foundation and you can have everything you could possibly want.
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Here's number four.
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Get better.
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There isn't any of us that can't get better.
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So turn on this whole idea of personal development and personal growth.
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That was what my teacher shared with me to change my life.
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I'm telling you for things to get better.
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You got to get better.
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Don't ask for it to change out there.
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Ask for you to change here.
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Don't ask for a more favorable wind.
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We call that naive.
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Don't ask for better seed, better soil.
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This is the only planet you got.
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care of your own responsibilities get better you can't change the winter you can't change the seasons
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but you can change yourself you say well what can i
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do about the upcoming winters of my life the challenges
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that i know i'm going to face here's what you can do you can get wiser and stronger
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Get stronger.
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You can develop the muscle.
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You can develop the courage muscle.
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You can develop the inspiration muscle.
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You can develop the dedication muscle.
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You can get stronger.
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Next time we see you may not even recognize you how
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strong you're going to be able to become in language and style and personality, the ability to cope, the ability to handle with anything that happens no matter what happens.
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And the third one is get better.
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We can all get better.
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I've gotten Under getting better, I just want to make you make this list of four words.
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And here's four good words to take home.
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One is absorb.
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Develop the skill and the ability to absorb everything.
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Be like a sponge like you've been today.
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This has been a good serious group.
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I appreciate that.
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You've worked as hard as we have up here on this platform.
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You've rolled up your sleeve and you've gone to work and you've taken notes and I appreciate that.
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experience into other people's lives and you can't invest it if you haven't got it.
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I'm asking you to appreciate each other.
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Soak this all up.
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Soak it all up.
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It's called absorb, absorb, absorb.
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Then when you get back home, you can give out, give out, give out.
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And you'll have an extraordinary effect on the people that you reach out and touch.
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Here's the next one.
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Develop the ability to respond.
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That's what got me almost six years ago.
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Mark and Larry made that call.
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I responded.
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It touched me.
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Don't just be touched with the challenge.
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I'm asking you to be touched with the problem.
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Let people's problems get to you.
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Let people's problems touch your heart this year like never before. Be touched.
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Let life touch you.
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Don't let it kill you, but let it touch you.
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Here's number three.
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Develop the ability to reflect.
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I'm asking you at the end of the day, go back over your day.
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I'm asking you at the end of the week, go back over your week.
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Make that week more valuable.
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At the end of a conversation, go back over the conversation.
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How did it go and what did you do?
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Learn by reflecting.
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I call it run the tapes again of your own experiences.
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What a next year you could have if you pay more attention this year.
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Soak it up, gather it up and reflect at certain times what's going on and what's happening.
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And this year will take a more powerful place in your experience.
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Then here's the last one.
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And that's to share.
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We've got this extraordinary opportunity now.
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Let us not keep it.
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Let us share it.
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Let us reach out with a long reach, a strong reach, an unprecedented reach.
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Let us reach out and touch people not just with our opportunity, let's touch people with our lives.
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Now here's my last two parts to make this your best year ever.
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Get excited.
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And excitement is not just, you know, excitement.
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Excitement that runs deep is the excitement that really lasts for a lifetime.
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Not surface excitement.
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I'll tell you what's really going to serve you well, and that's the excitement you feel inside that isn't even probably expressed on the outside.
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The excitement that runs deep.
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The excitement that stirs commitment.
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The excitement that stirs courage.
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Give me the chance and I will get the job done.
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That kind of excitement.
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Complaining I'm telling you could ruin all of your chances
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Complaining sometimes starts as an infection if you don't take care of it it becomes a disease
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You battle with enemies of the mind you got to do battle with in the summer one is pessimism
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That tries to get you only to see the negative side of course, there's the negative side life is part negative.
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What else is new?
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half empty it is half empty you say well i've been only taught to see
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that it's half full well sure it's half full
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but here's what pessimism would try to get you to do believe that it's only half empty
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and when pessimism comes to your mind you've got to educate pessimism because pessimism is stupid
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pessimism tries to get you to believe that it's only half empty i'm asking you to be in charge
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Do battle with your enemy in the summertime?
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In the harvest time reap your harvest without complaint.
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It's your crop you sowed it You either made the calls or didn't make the calls you wrote the letters.
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You didn't write the letters you were steady or you weren't steady
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You did it or you didn't do you put together a good day
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or you didn't put together a good day Take responsibility when the harvest time finally comes and say hey,
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it's my crop got to take responsibility for it apologize if you've done well.
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We offer no apologies when these winners that walked across this stage here go back to their communities.
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We offer no apology for making the kind of money they make.
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When you go back to the community, all of you that were winners here, I ask you to go back with no apology
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because you've done your job well and you've given good hands to everybody you've touched.
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You deserve all the money.
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But here's a commitment I'd like to have you make to me.
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lives, not just their health.
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Let's help people with their lives, not just their income.
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Let it be said if they were around us one week, one month or a lifetime, that when they got around us, not only did we talk about money,
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not only did we talk about product, we talked about life.
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We talked about getting better.
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We talked about becoming all that you can become.
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We talked about possibly be.
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Let's do that.
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Let's develop those abilities.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How To Change Your Life Forever”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: serious, develop, excitement, learn, asking. This video has 211 sentences and 2097 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:05. The speaker talks at a natural 160 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| excitement noun | /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ | The state of being excited (emotionally aroused). |
| pessimism noun | /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/ | A general belief that bad things will happen. |
| absorb verb | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in… |
| neglect verb | /nɪˈɡlɛkt/ | To fail to care for or attend to something. |
| soak verb | /soʊk/ | To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. |
| sail noun | /seɪl/ | A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination… |
| harvest noun | /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/ | The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. |
| apology noun | /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry). |
| miracle noun | /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/ | An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin. |
| stir verb | /stɝ/ | To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it. |
| crop noun | /kɹɑp/ | A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. |
| ponder verb | /ˈpɑn.dəɹ/ | To wonder, think of deeply. |
| summertime noun | The period or season of summer. | |
| dedicate verb | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. |
| reap verb | /ˈɹiːp/ | To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| give out verb | To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. |
| reach out verb | To extend one's hand(s) forward; to reach for something. |
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. |
| get around verb | To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm asking you to develop your own personal philosophy.
- It's serious whether you win or lose.
- It's serious whether you succeed or fail.
- How did it go and what did you do?
- Do battle with your enemy in the summertime?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've already been · I've already heard · you've listened |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be said · be planted · be touched |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | those who can · those who haven |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 85 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you've, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: pessimism /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/, apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/, millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, unprecedented /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
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 excitement, pessimism, absorb.
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.