Shadowing Practice: How to Kill Every Limiting Belief and Become Unstoppable - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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Everything in your life is created from your thoughts.
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If you can master the correct mindset, you can build the exact type of life that you want.
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The number one issue that I think most of us struggle with is limiting beliefs.
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You have to understand that as a human, you have been conditioned to believe certain things over time and the farther that you go in your life,
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the more these conditioned beliefs start to compound
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and it becomes extremely hard to break out of this jail cell of what you believe to be possible in your life.
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If you want to have Kanye West level of self -belief, if you want to reach the optimized version of who you
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are what you have to do is eliminate any type of negative thought
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that pops up in your mind you need to throw it out right there's a quote
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that i love
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that says the first your first thought doesn't matter your second thought does you can't control
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that first thought it's just going to pop in it can
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be negative it could be hateful it could be whatever throw it out, your second thought is what matters.
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Now, how do we do that?
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How do we make sure that you're only having positive thoughts?
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We need to reverse engineer this.
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So if you lived a happy, fulfilling life where you achieved all your dreams, what would you be thinking every day?
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You'd have a lot of gratitude.
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You would be constantly thinking about how you've been able to do this the work
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that you've put in your sense of self -belief would be very high and
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so in other words you have essentially a fortified shop of
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ideas that's that's the way i'll describe it you have a
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shop of ideas in your head now you get to choose what type of idea you're going to shop
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but guess what's not going to be available in the inventory any negative thoughts right and so
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essentially how you do that is you actively consciously try to think positive thoughts
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but more importantly everything you consume has to be positive you are what you consume
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if you go on social media
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and you just watch bitter hateful videos all the time what
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do you think is going to happen you are going to turn into
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that you are what you consume if you read books that are very degenerate.
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If you, you know, the conversation that you're having with your friend, if they're negative, you will also become negative.
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So what you need to do is you need to eliminate all these things.
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And that is a choice.
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My friends, that is a choice.
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What happens is people have negative thoughts come up and they're like, well, I'm not the thinker of my thoughts.
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I'm the observer.
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And therefore I can't do anything, but your mind creates thoughts based off of what it's consuming
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so i want you to eliminate all negative people in your life truly this may seem like cliche advice
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but it's it's the reality eliminate negative people
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but more importantly you need to completely turn off all bad content
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that has a low vibration to it you need to
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because the average american spends five to eight hours a day on their phone what percentage of content on social media,
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do you guys think it's negative?
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I would say it's probably 70 % because that's what sells.
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Negativity sells.
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Miserable people find miserable people.
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You might not think that because you're just at your house
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and you go to work and that's all you do that because of that, you're not a negative person.
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You're not impacting other people's lives.
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No, trust me.
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Your brain is still very negative when you're just constantly consuming this,
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I would almost say anti -spiritual slop.
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It's not fruitful to your spirit to watch these political videos about everything terrible with the government
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and war this and children are passing away that.
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It's depressing and subconsciously you start to pick up on these things
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and you start to act the same way i want to tell you guys the story so i'm from chicago
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those of you
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that are fans of my channel know this i have really
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since i can remember i've always looked up to kanye west he's also from chicago that's why i say
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that and as i've grown up i really would just i would watch these interviews of kanye
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and i was just so addicted to the way
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that he talked about himself he has this quote he says
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when you're when you're a fan of me you're
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or you're not a fan of me you're a fan of kanye
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or wait i just botched that
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when you're a fan of kanye west you're not a fan of me you're a fan of yourself i love
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that quote he's saying that like
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he operates at the frequency of self -belief you can do
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the exact same thing it's just a matter of what are you feeling fueling your body with is it negativity
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or is it positivity now
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here's another thing that i've recently started to do
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and it's worked wonders for me i literally will
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when i go to bed every night i throw on as
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cliche as it is i forgot what the actual name for it is
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but it's basically like self -affirmations so that
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when you fall asleep like subconsciously your brain is picking up
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on the stuff that's saying like i believe in myself good things are going to happen to me
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so on and so forth now most of you guys have probably heard of paranoia
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but few people have heard of pronoia pronoia is the opposite of paranoia paranoia is thinking
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that the world is out to get you pronoia is thinking
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that everything in the world is working to help you right
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if you like literally start to listen to things that are positive
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that are reinforcing to yourself
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that are going to help you grow your confidence over time it starts to build it seems ridiculous
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but all those crazy crystal girls
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that believed in manifestation their version of manifestation was absolutely wrong
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they just think oh the universe is going to give me
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something that's going to happen that's not how it works
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but they're the foundation of what they believe where
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if i think this thing is going to happen it will
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that aspect of it is right you need to genuinely operate
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at such a level where things are just going to go your way you need to think
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that things are going to go your way you need to think
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that people are out there and the universe is aligning god whatever you believe in
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so that the odds are stacked in your favor not against your favor not everyone's out to get you
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because sure are there actually people out there to get you.
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Yeah.
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But if you just relentlessly have a good attitude about things, it changes everything.
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You control your attitude.
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You do.
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And the best skill to develop is the ability to stay
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in a good mood in the absence of things to be in a good mood about.
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So let's think about this.
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If I call this the two world theory, this is my own theory.
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There are two worlds that exist when a negative event happens.
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Number one, you could sit there, complain, ruminate about it, get all upset.
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Or number two, accept that that bad thing happened
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and there's nothing you can do to change it and then move forward with at the bare minimum neutral, but ideally a positive attitude.
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Which world do you want to live in?
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So obviously the correct answer here is objectively the one with a good attitude.
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But here's the thing about life.
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Life is just a series of events that happens to you a lot of
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which are out of your control and it's just life is your reaction to those events
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so you could have let's let's say the negative attitude is world one the positive attitude is world two
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if you have a life full of world two decisions that's going to be a positive life
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if you have a life full of world one decisions that's
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going to be a negative life in both lives the exact
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same events happened the only difference was how did you approach
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moving forward right i used to be a very negative person
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i would listen to low vibrational music all the content i
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was consuming was like oh it was like x y
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and z terrible thing is happening in the world
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and this group of people sucks and it was all of
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that the books that i would read were more or less
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tragic you know it's like a shakespeare play that's you know notoriously tragic
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and i would sit in my room in the dark
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and just like you know put on my headphones
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and it's negative music it's it's you know hateful music it's
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like rap music talking about hurting people negativity negativity negativity but
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because you have agency and because you're a conscious person you think oh
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that doesn't affect me well guess what all this stuff is being digested by your brain without you even realizing it.
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And then it affects the way that you move forward.
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So you have to control what is going in.
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I feel like it's, it's, do you guys remember in school, in middle school, when you would learn about the inputs and outputs in math, it was like functions, right?
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If you put in X as the input, you're going to get Y output, like those charts excuse me so
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if your inputs are negativity hatred low vibrational bs a bunch
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of slap what do you guys think the the outputs are
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going to be like real like come on this is it
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people are just absolutely brain dead to what's going on
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and that's the worst part you have to actively choose what you are going to
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invest into your body but what's going to happen is it's almost inevitable
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that there are going to be these moments you're going to scroll
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and it's going to be a negative video
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and you're going to get hooked for a second
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but here's here's what you do notice when you say i can't
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or i'm not that kind of person notice when something is counter
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and what i mean by counter i mean anything
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that isn't going to help your confidence
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and your self -belief i'm going to call counter notice
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when any type of content is a counter it could be a video where somebody is
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bashing trump right people love to hate on trump whatever i don't get into politics i'm not into all that
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but you know i don't really want to watch these videos
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of people bashing on trump biden republican democrat i don't care i don't want to watch these videos
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because i don't want to feed my mind this garbage this slop this negativity
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and it's hard to escape it right like our parents are stuck in this loop
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because they watch the news
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and news is negative negative negative dude you need to cut this mindset out immediately
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so yeah analyze in in actively look for any counters ask
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yourself these questions every time you have any type of negative thought is this objectively true
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or is this something i've just repeated because just
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because you have a thought doesn't mean it's based in reality
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and then this is the this is the number one thing
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that really changed in my life find counter evidence even very
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small wins disprove negative beliefs i'm going to use the social media example
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so i do social media and yeah i post a bunch of videos
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and the majority of them flop and don't do anything but if i get one good video out of a 100,
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then that video basically overtakes all the bad ones.
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And everyone's going to focus on the fact that I had that one good one.
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And that is a small win.
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And guess what?
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Whatever you're doing in your life, the more effort that you give and the more time that you put into it, you're going to get a little bit better.
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So maybe it took me one in a hundred videos to go viral.
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And then I get a little bit better and then it's one in 80.
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And then I get a little bit better and it's one in 60, you know, and whatever your equivalent is of that is, let's say you want to be a ballerina you need to
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get those the i don't even know what the terminology of ballerina is
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but you need to get those twists
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or turns you know more smooth well you're going to get a little bit better every day
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and it's going to be so small that you don't notice it
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but it's still going to exist
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and eventually these small wins are going to disprove all the negative thoughts
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so you need to take action you need to stop sitting and trying to analyze things and instead just take action
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right and eventually you're going to have so much evidence built up over time
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that you would actually have to be an idiot to not believe in yourself this is exactly what kanye west did
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he would he he cut out all negativity he anytime
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that somebody would would say something
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that was like a counter he would check them on it
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you can see it in his documentary i think it was called genius
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or whatever he would literally like shut down people
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that didn't believe in him he would he would like like actually confront them
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and i just i love it it's just you're
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so dedicated to yourself and what you're trying to build you need to make absolute sure
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that you don't let anything slip between the cracks
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because your subconscious mind is working over time and it's extremely powerful
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and it's very hard to revert the effects
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and as i said earlier at the beginning of this video things were conditioned
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and things start to compound over time
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but what you need to do is you need to chisel
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away you need to chisel away at those break them down
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confidence does not come from affirmations my friends you can you
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need to listen to affirmations as i was saying before you should listen to it
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when you're sleeping
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but i'm saying it doesn't come from like just like looking yourself in the mirror every day
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and saying i'm this i'm that because then you're going to leave the mirror
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and then you're going to have negativity later on it what
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you need to do is start stacking the small wins
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and then trying to operate the subconscious or control what goes into the subconscious
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but absolutely i don't i don't know i'm trying to remember what the actual name for it is
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but there there's a name where it's like when you fall asleep
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and when you're um when you're not conscious
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or like you're just in a different state of being like a lower whatever you want to call it
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when you're like dazing off your brain everything
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that it takes in it starts to internalize and
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so you could just find this stuff on youtube that's what i do
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but there are also apps for it where you can like talk to the app
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and then what it does is it like puts like some weird high vibrational ambient music in the background
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and then just like mixes your vocals in there
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and you're like talking to yourself saying i believe x y and z if you do that when you're
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uh falling asleep i recommend people do
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that as crazy as it sounds believe me guys i'm the most anti like witchcraft i didn't believe in
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that stuff but truly what this is doing is it's feeding your brain something
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that it can start to build off of belief doesn't just
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randomly come overnight it's built over time you need to understand that do hard things consistently even if they're small
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And you'll look back in six months and your life will be completely changed.
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I started making content six to eight months ago,
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whatever it is at this point last october and I just showed up every day And on any one given day
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What I had to do Was annoying and I didn't want to do it, but I said hey i'm going to do it anyways It was all it was all small things,
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you know just record 30 second video here minute long video
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here 15 second video here just start to stack these things up
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and all of a sudden i started to win all of a sudden i started to grow a following
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i'm not saying you got to do social media whatever you want to do you have to establish
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a framework and a structure a foundation if you will
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that you're going to build yourself off of
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and you just do it by showing up every day building
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the small wins believing in yourself eliminating all the counters only allowing yourself the exposure to positivity
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and other people that also believe in themselves
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and by proxy believe in you
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and just let this go over again there's something called the
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michelangelo effect this is the last thing i'll say the michelangelo effect is
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when you believe in your in the other person in your
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relationship this doesn't have to be romantic it could be platonic
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as well you believe in them they believe in you
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and what this does is it creates a recurring cycle where you guys just keep believing in yourself and
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so you just level up you need to surround yourself with
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those type of people in life okay i want you
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if you're watching this video to know anybody can do this
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anybody it might seem really hard i'm telling you you can do this you can believe in yourself
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i believe in myself i hope you do as well
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 247 sentences and 3069 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:16. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| consume verb | /kənˈsum/ | To use up. |
| eliminate verb | /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ | To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. |
| output noun | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. |
| asleep adjective | /əˈsliːp/ | In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. |
| input noun | /ˈɪnpʊt/ | The act or process of putting in; infusion. |
| actively adverb | /ˈæktɪvli/ | In an active manner. |
| stack noun | /stæk/ | A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. |
| hateful adjective | /ˈheɪtfəl/ | Evoking a feeling of hatred. |
| 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. |
| mood noun | /muːd/ | A mental or emotional state, composure. |
| essentially adverb | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | In essence: by nature. |
| sudden adjective | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly. |
| compound noun | /ˈkɑmpaʊnd/ | Anything made by combining several things. |
| conscious adjective | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| move forward verb | To cause to make progress. |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| cut out verb | To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
| look up to verb | To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model. |
| pass away verb | To die. |
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 | have been conditioned · you've been · you've put |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is created · have been conditioned · are stacked |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 89 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: smooth /smuːð/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, bash /bæʃ/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/
- Long words — get the stress right: eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
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 belief, consume, eliminate.
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.