Shadowing Practice: Joe Rogan on Avoiding the Loser Mentality - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Joe Rogan experience Wondering why other people success or wondering why other people are successful is the refuge of losers.
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Yes.
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It's a loser mentality It's a loser occupation It's a it's a it's a loser practice
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because you're wondering why other people are successful Like who gives a fuck you can say you think it sucks,
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but to spend time Wondering why someone is successful and hating on someone being successful.
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It doesn't do any good It's like what is that old expression that jealousy is?
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It's a poison that does the opposite of its intended Oh, it doesn't affect the other person at all, but it poisons yourself.
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Yeah, it wastes your your energy and time It just is so it's so indicative that you are insecure.
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Yes It's like people don't realize how what a giveaway that is when they are talking shit.
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You're just like This is just showing me that you fucking don't like yourself.
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Well, I figured out there's something that I figured out personally
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and that I try to relay this and I try to be more clear
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and more concise the way I relay it the way I look at it is
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That your mind you have a certain amount of bandwidth
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This is why I don't read Instagram comments or Twitter comments
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or YouTube comments Like I don't mean time if I read them.
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It's an accident, but to seek them out and go, like you have bandwidth.
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I don't spend time wondering why I hate things or hating things or hating on someone or being jealous.
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You have let's say let's call it units you have a Hundred units of bandwidth in your mind
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So that means there's a hundred units
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so you can spend on things you care about or you could let your mind be occupied
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Why some stupid fucking Twitter feud
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that you're in with some idiot You don't even know
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and you could spend 30% of your Twitter bandwidth your your your mind bandwidth on this
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and then you only have 70% for the things you love and then maybe you're Involved in some fucking relationship, but someone who's an idiot and you're arguing back and forth with them Well,
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there's another 30% that's gone now you got you have 40%
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left you have 40% for the things you love instead of a hundred percent
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But if you only concentrate on the things you care about
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that means something to you and learn how to do that Like you were talking about meditation.
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Yeah, it's a form of meditation meditation.
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Because you're learning how to avoid the little road bumps and the ditches on the side of the road.
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That can suck your bandwidth.
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You can give them just a little bit and go, okay, no, no, no. Or you could lean in.
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Like how you're saying when you stopped drinking, all of a sudden your career took off.
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You started doing well because you had more bandwidth.
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And you had less problems.
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This problem that you had that was rotting you away no longer existed.
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So now all It frees up your time
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and you realize oh my god There's so many funny things
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that I could talk about and I have so much energy
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and I'm so healthy I could just go on stage
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and have fun and then you're killing it When was the last thing
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that you go no no got it like you maybe gave
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it a little too much bandwidth Do you still struggle with those things?
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No, I don't and not really anymore, but it's been a gradual process like remember the first You
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had to have been a jealous dude in stand-up Like
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when you first started out you had to have hated the guy that was getting ahead like right?
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I don't know any male comic.
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I definitely was in the beginning.
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Yeah, and how what happened to that you get successful and it didn't happen?
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No, no, before I was successful before I was successful.
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I realized it was stupid long before because
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When I was like an amateur I would see guys
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that were killing and I'd be like fuck him Like why is he doing good?
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Like that guy sucks and this guy sucks
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and you know How come he got this and he got
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that and then I remember thinking like this is a gigantic waste of time
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and I got into comedy because I'm a fan of comedy
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and My concentrating on people that suck or being jealous about people that are doing well does me zero good,
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but But instead if someone does well I can be inspired and I can get fired up by it.
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I mean I figured this out in my early 20s.
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I was like okay, this is a- Yeah.
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I have a poor way of looking at it because it's a martial arts thing.
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Because in martial arts like you can't be jealous of someone else's ability.
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You have to realize you might have to fight them someday.
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So by realizing that they're really good you're forced to be objective about it.
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And you have to go to work.
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Like you have to go fuck that guy's better than me.
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I gotta get better.
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And you have to go to work.
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Right.
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There's no positive benefit in underestimating someone.
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Underestimating someone will get you fucking killed.
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Like literally.
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Yeah a shin smashed in your face Like you don't want to convincing yourself
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that the things that you're jealous of them for aren't really that's good Right, that will get your that will get you killed.
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Yeah, so that's it dude That's totally it because the things
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that I get jealous of or have
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and I'm better about it now than I've ever been But you know you see other women.
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I mean my jealousies are always with other women It's just the way it is
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and I have to fight it
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and I'm really good about it now to be like actually inspired by Women who are funnier than me, but that's awesome But and to use it to be like okay,
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then I need to be better I need to get up to
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that level that is I need to go home and write it like fires me up as opposed to like why?
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And it's powerful for everybody.
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It's powerful for them.
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It's powerful for you.
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Yes It's like there's no negative aspect to it It's like you should be thankful
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that these women out there that make you feel uncomfortable Yeah, like when I see someone just murder on stage fuck I want to go to work.
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Yeah, right I want to get home and write yeah, I want to I want to go perform I'm like fuck that guy just killed her holy shit.
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She just crushed She's out there killing it.
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He's he's doing so good It makes me want to work harder and in
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that sense I thought someone's not doing anything bad as long
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as someone's not victimizing someone what they're doing is they're they're they're They're showing you
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that it's possible to do better than you're doing yeah, and that's good
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 95 sentences and 1210 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:52. The speaker talks fast, about 206 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bandwidth noun | /ˈbændwɪdθ/ | The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band. |
| jealous adjective | /ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/ | Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| loser noun | /luzɚ/ | A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive. |
| meditation noun | /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/ | A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation. |
| poison noun | /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. |
| concentrate verb | /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/ | To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force. |
| martial adjective | /ˈmɑɹʃəl/ | Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike. |
| inspire verb | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by… |
| relay noun | /ˌɹiˈleɪ/ | A new set of anything. |
| jealousy noun | /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.si/ | A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude. |
| underestimate verb | /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/ | To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has. |
| argue verb | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. |
| comic noun | /ˈkɑmɪk/ | A comedian. |
| aspect noun | /ˈæspɛkt/ | Any specific feature, part, or element of something. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| get ahead verb | To advance toward success. |
| get up to verb | To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
| start out verb | To emerge suddenly; to jump out. |
| take off verb | To remove. |
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 let · I've ever been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be occupied · can be inspired |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, martial /ˈmɑɹʃəl/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, smash /smæʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, occupation /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, indicative /ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/
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 bandwidth, jealous, suck.
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.