Shadowing Practice: Please get addicted to thinking everything will always work out for you - Learn English Speaking with Video
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whatever you think always has a way of working out.
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So you might as well just be delusionally optimistic, right?
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The world in a weird way bends to your will.
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And what I mean by that is your thought pattern changes the way that your brain views yourself in life subconsciously.
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And then that controls the subtle actions that you make throughout your day that you're not even consciously aware of.
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And all of a sudden, these very small decisions that you make that you don't even think you're making add up to something bigger.
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Excuse me.
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It's the law of accumulation, right?
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So you just need to get addicted to thinking that everything is going to work out.
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You know, once you go through enough weird or bad experiences in life, and then eventually they pan out,
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you start to realize that there really is no advantage whatsoever in thinking neutrally or negatively.
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Like there's no advantage in panicking when something doesn't go right.
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The only workable solution is to think that things will go right.
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And it's really hard to develop this framework, this mindset, but I am not kidding you in the past year, year and a half ish,
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I have seen drastic changes in my life from me just saying, you know what?
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Two worlds exist right now.
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One where I get mad about this or one where I actually think
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that this is opportunity or it's a good thing or it's building my character or whatever.
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You choose what that life looks like for you.
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It's so corny, but start romanticizing your future.
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You should start thinking that that girl's going to like you.
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Start thinking that, you know, you're going to get that job or start thinking that you're going to be living in an abundance.
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The things that you want are going to happen.
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Because if you truly keep this mentality at each stage of your life, you're going to look back and it's just objectively going to be better.
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Imagine you're on your deathbed
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and you look back on all the decisions that you made
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and you're the type of person that thought positively through everything and everyone would point the finger at you like,
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oh you're performatively happy and then imagine you're the negative person
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that everyone's always you know doesn't want to be around
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and you're like you're like you know pessimists they like seem smart they seem intelligent they seem right
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and then all of a sudden you know boom these things just added up in your life
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and in any given instant you didn't care to change your mentality
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because you thought oh i can do it in the future
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and then these things added up which life you think is better.
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The delusionally optimistic, the performatively happy person, or the one that was,
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you know, trying to be realistic and negative about things.
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It's so obvious.
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And here's the thing.
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We all know this is true.
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I remember when I would work this warehouse job and I've talked about it before on my channel,
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but you know, some nights when it was really cold
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and it was getting late and I knew I wasn't going to get much sleep
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and I was tired from lifting the heavy boxes, man, I would just sit there and think, wow, this really sucks.
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Like you're kind of just, you're in that moment for, you know, it's a six hour shift, sometimes it's eight hour shift, whatever.
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You're just in this sucky moment for so long that you have nothing else to do, but to think negatively.
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And I remember at that time when I got that job was the first time I ever read meditations by Marcus Aurelius,
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which is a super cliche, like first philosophy book to get into.
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I don't know if it was my first ever, but it was one of the first philosophy books I I've ever read.
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And it's still just such solid information.
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I truly believe that.
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I just think it's so applicable to the average person.
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And there was something that Marcus Aurelius said in that book that stuck out.
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He's like, he's like, don't catch yourself complaining, not even to yourself.
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And what he meant by
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that is you don't even want to have your personal self -talk in your head be negative
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because it quite literally has not only is it bad for you
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but it offers you no relief like i don't i like this is the issue
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that i struggle with it's like why do people even complain
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because what's the benefit of of complaining because you don't really feel good
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when you complain you almost feel worse
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when you complain it's like it's like you're trying to scratch an itch that's under your skin, but you can't, it's not even possible.
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It only makes it more itchy because have you ever vented to someone, not even complain, but just vented about anything going on in your life.
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And then immediately, like later that night, when you left that, um, from hanging out with that person,
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you're like, Oh, that I wish I didn't do that.
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It's like, yeah, you just, you just endure these things and like, think more positively.
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Anyways, I remember actively telling myself like, Hey, this is something that I need to work on.
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And when I was you know at that job
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because i just every night was gonna suck every night you just you're you're lifting all this heavy freight
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and you got it you're you're red lighting if you know you know
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and it just
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is not the most ideal situation
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and all of a sudden you're like hey
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there's there's no getting out of it let's just accept this experience for what it is
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and not wish that it was anything better
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and then you're cool with it you're cool with it i remember
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and i've told this story before but i had this sales job
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and for the sales job i would i would knock doors in in neighborhoods
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i was a door -to -door solicitor and the way that
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that job works is you have what's called like car groups
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so you have one driver who's the leader
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and then the you know three other people in the car
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and they drive people to their neighborhoods that they're going to
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and i was just really like i hated this job
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so much i was really negative
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and i had my car group driver pull me aside
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and he was like hey man he's like i'm wishing you for the i'm wishing the best for you
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but he's like i can't be around you you're just too negative
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it just kills kills the mojo kills the morale and
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that was like a strong wake -up call for me
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and i remember just thinking like he's he's right like i wasn't even i was i was upset with myself
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but he didn't hurt my feelings i remember sitting there like no that's totally valid that's totally right
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because you just you don't want to bring people down
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you don't want to bring yourself down above all else like i don't know
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it's like you can just complain about things over and over again
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or you could actually do something about it you know what's funny is like
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that you start to view the world in that same light
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if you're a negative person you're going to see a situation that's neutral as negative
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if you're a positive person you're going to see a situation
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that's neutral as positive that's just how it goes you know it's funny
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because a lot of people online will watch my videos um
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or not not necessarily watch my videos
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but maybe just see the the titles of thumbnails and it's funny
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because they're like oh jet is so doomer and this and
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that and it's like if you've actually watched my videos
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and you're not you know a miserable person who's actively looking for misery uh you probably have realized
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that in my videos especially you know at the end of the conclusion
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it's always like something more positive it's always something like hey just
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because society sucks
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or whatever like you gotta do you gotta make an attempt there is still a window to escape yeah
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and it's like people that actually watch my videos know this to be true
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and uh you know if they're not miserable
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or like looking for a reason to get upset
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but my point is this the world is just a reflection of yourself
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the only perspective that you're ever going to experience is your own
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so you might as well just make it the best as possible
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and here's the here's the cool thing hope
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it can be addictive like you you can start to think more positively
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and you start to realize that you like life more
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and you're like oh this is good like let me uh double down on this let me up the dosage of hope
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You know what I mean?
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I just think that if you stay attached so hard to a specific outcome,
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it's probably not, it's probably not going to end your way because oftentimes in life,
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the outcome is positive, but not in the way that you thought it was.
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And just deviating from the mean, the mean being just like anything being different from what you expected will oftentimes make you feel weird about it.
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So detach from the outcome, whatever you're doing, your job, your relationship, a career pursuit, whatever you're trying.
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It's like, I know this is cliche advice, but you just, you have to accept,
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Hey, it's not going to work out exactly how I want it.
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That, that, that universe where that happens doesn't exist.
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It's not going to happen exactly how you want it.
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So just get obsessed with just thinking positively.
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Okay.
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It didn't happen.
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I want it.
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That's a good thing.
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Cause I wasn't ready or it's what if it ends up better than I could have ever imagined?
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Cause the only thing people ever think about is the loss and human psychology.
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The fear of loss is two times greater than the desire to gain.
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And so people are always thinking, Oh, like loss, loss, loss.
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Like what if this doesn't work out what if
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that doesn't work out bro you just
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you just gotta let it be that's that's it you gotta let it be
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because if you if you are
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so stuck on an outcome you will be a slave to
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that outcome and also you might realize in your own personal experience
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that oftentimes the outcome never happens when you want it to happen
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so badly it doesn't when you stop caring that's
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when it happens that's just it's it's life is funny that way you get teased god is teasing you a little bit.
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He's saying, stop trying so hard and just have some faith and trust in me.
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I think that becoming addicted to believing that everything is going to work out.
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Pronoia, not paranoia, pronoia.
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Is potentially one of the greatest habits you could ever establish in your life.
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Everything else would just coincide with that.
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And it's not about being naive.
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It's not about dumbing yourself down or anything like that it's just i i think it's just
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accepting that you don't know what's going to happen
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so let's let me trust in god let me trust in the universe and it's going to be as it is
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i think in the end
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if you can real peace is not making sure everything always works out it's knowing
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that you're going to be fine regardless of how things work out that's it thank you guys for watching
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Please get addicted to thinking everything will always work out for you”. This video has 159 sentences and 1984 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:30. The speaker talks fast, about 189 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| complain verb | /kəmˈpleɪn/ | To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. |
| outcome noun | /ˈaʊtkʌm/ | That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. |
| positively adverb | /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/ | In a positive manner. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| sudden adjective | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly. |
| neutral adjective | /ˈnuː.tɹəl/ | Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned. |
| actively adverb | /ˈæktɪvli/ | In an active manner. |
| miserable adjective | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. |
| optimistic adjective | /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/ | Expecting the best in all possible ways. |
| vent noun | /vɛnt/ | An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. |
| mentality noun | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs. |
| negatively adverb | In a negative manner; so as to be damaging or not positive. | |
| addict noun | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug. |
| tease verb | /tiːz/ | To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material). |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| add up verb | To take the sum of; to total. | |
| add up to verb | To have a particular effect in combination. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| look back verb | To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). | |
| stick out verb | To protrude. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 73 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: deathbed /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: positively /ˈpɑ.zɪ.tɪv.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/
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 complain, outcome, positively.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
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