Shadowing Practice: Nobody Cares, Work Harder - David Goggins Motivation - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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I can tell bad times you're right around the corner again.
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I can tell bad times you're right around the corner again.
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I can tell by all the emails I'm getting talking about.
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I can't get a break in life.
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I hate that damn mentality but I can't get a break.
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You aren't giving any breaks in life.
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You make them for yourself.
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We are all being tested in life.
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While my test is different than yours, you will be tested.
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And how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life.
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The one mentality that you must have in life is that regardless of what's in front of you, you still must grind.
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I'll never be in the Olympics.
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I'll never be a professional athlete, but still I grind.
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I fail at most things I do, but still I grind.
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I don't want to do half the shit I do, but still I grind.
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And that one day you see me down a dark alley running at one o'clock in the morning, no one thing.
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I was grinding.
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Stay hard.
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Like, I didn't care about losing weight.
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I didn't care about being the fastest person.
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I wasn't making the Olympics.
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I wasn't going to pros.
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I could barely read and write when I was a junior in high school.
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I wasn't going anywhere.
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I saw working out as a way for me to build calluses on my mind.
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I had to callus over the victim's mentality.
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So, I watched these movies.
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I talked about Rocky last time I was on here.
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I always equated training to mental toughening.
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Like, it always looked brutal.
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People waking up early and doing all these things.
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It looked horrible.
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I was like, wow, man, I got to start doing that.
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Not to get better, bigger, and stronger, but that is what's going to build me.
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That looks uncomfortable.
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That looks brutal.
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And getting up early, I don't want to do that.
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So I made this long list of things I don't want to do.
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And through that, I found myself.
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I'm like, you guys aren't doing this shit in high school.
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You guys are getting about five o'clock in the morning running over here in this golf course
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So I started seeing myself very differently than the average human being.
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I was like, hang on a second.
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I have something they don't have and That's not start to develop these things through working out.
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It was this great Never-ending work ethic and through work ethic.
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I developed self-esteem
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Honestly, my biggest fear to this day is
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And I say a lot and it's It's going to heaven and being judged by God.
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And I believe that God has this, knows everything about you.
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From the time you're born, when you're gonna be born, when you're gonna die, when you're gonna graduate whatever's going to happen to you, he knows all this shit.
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Some people never do what God knows you're capable of doing because we have choices.
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My biggest fear in life was to get to heaven and God look at me as I'm being judged.
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And I was some fat 300-pound guy like I used to be that still is brave for cockroaches.
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That's okay, it's what you want to do.
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I didn't want to do that.
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And I made a thousand dollars, you know a month and I got to heaven
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and God laid out this chart in front of me
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And he said hey man look at this chart
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and had my name on top of all this amazing shit And I'm like that's not that's not me man.
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He goes that's who you were supposed to be My biggest fear in life is
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that one day if I ever get judged By something someone some some energy force
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That go up there and I failed the mission
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whatever whatever force up there thought I was supposed to be some badass
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and I went up there underachieved you know I want
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that force up there
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that knows everything to be writing as I'm living saying I
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had no fucking idea he even had this in him
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so I want to just be the best I fucking can
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and a lot of people say that I truly mean
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that I still have to learn me you know I still
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feel There's you know there's there's times where as a human being I'm a human and
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You you still fall back in these in these ruts of life
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Where you think that you had a permanent fix cuz I've done all that Nothing's a permanent fix man
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That's why I grind every day Because nothing is permanent.
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I watched a lot of movies,
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and I was really big into visualization and I always equated working out to struggle and I struggled my whole life,
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but I ran from it.
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So I started realizing that I got to start facing the struggle and I got to be mentally strong for the struggle.
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So that's why I started coming up with like, I'm training for life.
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Mentally, I'm training for life.
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I'm not training for like to lift 400 pounds.
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And I found out on my own pretty much is that through this, through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, through tons of repetition, the same thing that you don't want to do.
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And that's the key thing.
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Through repetition of things you don't want to do, you develop mental, like an armor for your mind.
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Start to armor your mind.
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Cause your mind's like, okay, we suffer, we suffer every day.
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That's what we do.
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We do stuff that sucks every day.
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So then when the suck stuff comes, you're ready for it.
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And that's how it started coming up.
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You know, I just started being very uncomfortable.
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And now it's like a, just a way of life.
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The mind is a medieval motherfucker.
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It's constantly fighting against you.
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It's the only thing in the history of the fucking world that shows up on time, every time.
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It has a tactical advantage over you.
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It knows your fears, it knows your insecurities, It knows everything about you.
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It might be the only thing in that world that knows all about you.
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You got to know about it.
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It's going to show up when you don't want to show up.
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It's going to show up at the worst time possible when you want to be successful.
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It's going to say take the easy road.
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Take the easy way out.
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You got to learn your brain like your brain has learned you.
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If you're willing to suffer and suffer and go back in the grind
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That internal dialogue you have with yourself when you're in misery And you're uncomfortable It's a real scary Unfiltered,
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no lying dialogue Between you and yourself
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And people know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about
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When you're in a bad spot in life
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And your mind is saying all kind of shit That's who you really are That's the real you
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No Rocky Balboa moments going on up there.
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Like, hey, you know, it's around 14.
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Let's come on.
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We got this.
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No, it's like, fuck this.
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I'm out of here, man.
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It's crazy.
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That's where the growth happens.
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When you're able to stay in that moment and talk to yourself, talk to yourself back into the suck of wherever you're going through.
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And you start stripping those layers away.
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But as you're stripping those layers away, you're building calluses over top of shit in your mind.
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That's where the growth starts to happen is when you have to force yourself to stay in it.
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You can't leave it.
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And it was like three days later, I'm in a 100-mile race, no train at all.
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And when you do that, it is stupid.
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But when it does, if you're not going to quit it, like you just talked about, it breaks you down to nothing.
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You are suffering so badly mentally and physically that all of these demons are coming up.
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And you're trying to find answers, and you're trying to find answers.
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It was like living 19 hours.
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It was like five years I put into 19 hours of highs and lows and pitfalls and seeing the sun come up.
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And it was like, my God, I lived five years in 19 hours.
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It was unbelievable.
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It was unbelievable.
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Weak people hate strong minds.
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And there's an infestation of weak people in this fucking world.
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See, you're born with one mouth for a reason.
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To speak what you believe in.
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Speak your thoughts.
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Speak your truth.
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What happens is the goal of weak people is to silence you.
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So what they do to you is to isolate you.
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The more they isolate you, the more you want to put a fucking damn...
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You want to sew up your mouth right in the middle.
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You start speaking out both sides of your mouth.
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You don't stand for shit.
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And eventually what happens is, they make you so fucking soft, you become a fucking bobblehead.
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You try to be shaking your head, yes, for whatever they fucking want.
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Speak your truth.
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Don't be a fucking bobblehead.
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Stay hard.
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All the knowledge for myself comes from that place.
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It doesn't come from the place of success.
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My knowledge does not come from the place of success.
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Because for me, I built Goggins from the ground up.
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I was born David Goggins.
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David Goggins wasn't good enough.
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He was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life.
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And that kid, whenever something got tough, no matter how hard I trained, no matter how ready I was, whenever something got tough for me,
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David Goggins, the real David Goggins would come out and he would quit.
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So I realized this over a period of time.
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So I had to build Goggins.
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And in that process, I had to go back to that mental lab.
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And that mental lab is at scratch.
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That mental lab is in that trained humility.
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And so that's where I get better.
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I get better when I'm digging holes in the ground, when I'm waking up early knowing I don't have to do these things.
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That's where I get better.
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People think anger was my fucking fuel.
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Yeah, anger can be a fuel.
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Anger got me to look into things to become better.
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I want to show him.
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But I'll tell you one thing, when you're suffering and you're fucking at the wit's end and you want to fucking quit, that anger is gone, brother.
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Well it's also not a sustainable fuel source.
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Your mind is thinking about let's get the fuck out of here.
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So I realized this anger ain't shit.
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I didn't think about my dad beating me up.
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I didn't think about any of that shit.
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I thought about man this fucking water is cold as balls.
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Now I get the fuck out of here.
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So I realized anger was no fuel for me.
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It may have got me to say I'm gonna be somebody.
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Anger got me caught up in some serious ego trips man.
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Yeah.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will focus on practicing your English speaking skills through the powerful motivational message delivered by David Goggins in the video titled "Nobody Cares, Work Harder." You will learn how to embody a growth mindset and discover the importance of facing challenges head-on. By engaging with the motivational themes of grit and resilience, you'll not only enhance your vocabulary but also develop your ability to express complex ideas in fluent English. This lesson emphasizes the shadowing technique, allowing you to mimic Goggins’ intonation, pacing, and emotional delivery, leading to substantial improvements in your pronunciation and overall communication skills.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Grind - to work hard; to persevere through challenges.
- Calluses - hard, protective layers, often used metaphorically to describe mental toughness.
- Victim's mentality - a mindset where one feels powerless or believes they are always a victim of circumstances.
- Work ethic - a commitment to hard work and diligence.
- Judge - to evaluate or form an opinion about someone or something, often used in the context of personal actions and moral choices.
- Tested - faced with challenges that assess your strength or ability.
- Self-esteem - confidence in one's worth or abilities.
- Mindset - the established set of attitudes held by someone; an approach toward life’s challenges.
Practice Tips
To effectively utilize the shadowing technique with this video, follow these tailored tips:
- Start Slow: As Goggins speaks with strong emotion and energy, begin by playing the video at a slower speed. This will help you accurately mimic his pronunciation and rhythm.
- Focus on Emotion: Pay attention to how Goggins conveys emotion through his voice. Try to capture not just the words he says but the feeling behind them. This will help enhance your English speaking practice.
- Repeat in Sections: Break the video into smaller segments. After understanding a section, repeat it several times until you feel comfortable. This method will help solidify your learning.
- Record Yourself: Use your phone or a recording device to capture your attempts at shadowing. Playback your recordings to notice areas of improvement and refine your English pronunciation.
- Daily Practice: Try to incorporate this exercise into your daily routine. The regular use of dynamic motivational content will help foster a strong learning habit and further your journey to learn English with YouTube.
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.
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