Shadowing Practice: STOP Thinking In Your Language Before You Speak English - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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Someone asks you a question in English and in the half second before you answer, you leave.
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You go into your own language, you build the sentence there, the version that actually sounds like you, sharp and specific, and then you carry it back,
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translate it and open your mouth.
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Two seconds have passed.
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The person is still waiting and the thing you finally say is smaller than what you meant.
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Stop thinking in your language before you speak English.
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You've heard it a hundred times.
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Maybe a teacher said it.
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Maybe you've said it to yourself in the middle of a conversation and it never worked once because it's not advice.
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It's an order to stop doing something without giving you anywhere else to go.
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You see your brain, my friend, it's not broken and your English is not the problem.
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Something else is happening.
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And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
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So are you ready?
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Well then let's jump right in part number one.
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What's actually happening in the brain.
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Let me explain how a habit gets built.
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Picture a grassy field.
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The grass is very high.
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So the first time you walk across it, there's no path you push through.
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It's slow.
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You're moving your feet one step at a time.
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You have to decide where to step.
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Now walk the same line tomorrow and the next day and the next day.
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And all of a sudden the grass starts to flatten a trail appears.
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Now walk that same path for years and it becomes a dirt road.
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You don't choose it anymore.
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Your feet just go your feet.
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Know where to go.
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That is a habit.
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The brain builds a physical route for anything you realize repeat and then hands the job over to a deeper,
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faster part of itself.
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So it doesn't have to think about it.
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This is a habit.
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You're doing the same thing over and over.
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Why does the brain do this?
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You see, thinking is actually expensive.
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The brain is always trying to spend less trying to conserve energy.
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So it looks for anything you do the same way twice and asks, Hey, can I make this automatic?
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This is something that he or she is doing over and over again.
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So can I make this automatic?
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There are three parts to every habit.
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There's a trigger.
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Something happens.
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Something starts the process.
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Then there's a routine.
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You do the thing.
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There is something.
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There's an action.
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There's a behavior.
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You have a trigger, a routine, and then a payoff.
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A payoff is you get something out of it, whether it's relief, whether it's safety and answer,
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or even avoided embarrassment, a trigger, a routine, a payoff.
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You see the payoff is what tells the brain, keep this road.
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It works.
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This is something that brings a result, a payoff.
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So why are these habits so hard to break?
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You see, you can't erase a road.
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The trail is still there.
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Even if you stop using it, the ground stays packed.
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Think about that example I gave earlier, the analogy a few moments ago.
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You've walked this path so much.
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The trail is not going anywhere.
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Even if you don't use it every single day anymore, that trail, that path is still going to be there.
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It fires also before you notice.
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The habit actually starts before you even realize it.
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The automatic part of the brain moves faster than the thinking part.
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Listen closely.
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The automatic part, it actually moves quicker, moves faster than the thinking part.
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By the time you catch yourself, you're already halfway down the road because the habit is automatic.
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Now it works.
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This is the big one.
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The brain doesn't keep habits because they're good.
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It keeps them because they deliver.
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They give a payoff.
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Now a bad habit that produces a result beats a better habit that produces nothing yet.
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Listen, so if there's a habit in place, automatically translating, whenever someone asks you something in English, that is the habit you want to break,
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but it is a habit.
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Now, when you're trying to bring in a new habit that doesn't have any results, any payoff yet the brain says nope we're going to default back to
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that old habit even though it's the one you want to change
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And why another reason why habits are so hard to break?
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Willpower is the wrong tool.
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My friend up until now you've been trying to use your willpower to break that habit.
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I won't translate.
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I'll think in English, but willpower is the wrong tool.
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Don't walk down that road.
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Don't use that path.
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Don't use that habit.
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This leaves you standing in the field with nowhere to go.
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I see the path that I've always gone down, the bad habit, always translating.
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I don't want to do that.
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Now I'm stuck at a crossroads.
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What do I do?
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You see, the brain needs somewhere to go, not something to avoid.
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So how does a habit actually change?
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We understand how it's made.
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We understand why it's hard to actually break it.
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But how does a habit actually change?
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You don't delete the old road.
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That old road is still going to be there.
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Instead, you have to build a new one and then you make it the easier one.
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That old path that was the default, now you ignore it by making a new one and this new one has to be the easier one.
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You keep the same trigger.
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Change what happens next.
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The trigger is there, but you have to change what happens next.
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The new path starts as flattened grass.
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It will feel slow.
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It will feel clumsy and worse than the old road.
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That's not failure though.
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That's what new actually feels like.
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It only becomes automatic through repetition, not intensity, frequency.
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You have to do it over and over again.
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You've been relying on that old path so long it's become automatic.
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You have to change, create a new habit and repeat it over and over and over again.
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The old road never fully disappears under stress when you're tired or when you feeling pressure,
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your feet will find that old path again.
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That's normal, not relapse.
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Now we enter part number two, applying this to the translation habit.
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Now the road that already exists, we're speaking about your habit of translating.
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What's the trigger?
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The trigger is someone asks you something in English.
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Hey, how was your day?
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Hey, what do you like doing?
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Hey, what happened to your friend?
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Someone asked you something in English.
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This is the trigger.
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Number two, though, the routine.
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You pull the meaning into your own language.
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We're talking about that old path, that road that exists.
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They've asked you something in English.
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Now comes your routine.
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You pull the meaning into your own language.
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You organize the full answer there.
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Then you convert it to English.
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You convert it into English and then you speak.
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The routine is receive it, translate it to your own language, convert it into English, and then speak.
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This is stressful, but this is the routine you've been following.
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And listen, I understand when I was learning Korean, I was doing the same thing.
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And what's the payoff?
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You get a complete, safe, correct sounding answer and you avoid sounding foolish.
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This is the road that already exists.
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The trigger, the routine, the payoff.
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Now that last part is why this habit is so strong.
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It's not laziness, it's protection.
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You've been protecting yourself.
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The brain built this road because it prevents embarrassment.
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You don't want to feel embarrassed and it has been rewarded for it.
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Thousands upon thousands of times.
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Someone asks you a question in English.
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You pull the meaning into your own language.
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You organize the full answer converted into English and you speak.
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Yes, it takes time, but you have a complete and safe answer and you're not embarrassed.
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You've done this thousands upon thousands of times.
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So why just stop translating that phrase, just stop translating doesn't work.
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Why does this not actually work for you?
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You see, just stop translating is an instruction to avoid a road without offering a new one.
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The moment a question arrives, the brain needs to go somewhere immediately.
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If there's no alternative route built yet, it takes a little bit of a It takes the road it knows, well, you're not offering me anything else.
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So I'm going to go down the translation road every time.
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And it takes it fast because you can catch it.
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So what has to be built instead?
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What has to be built in order for you to stop translating and finally start thinking in English.
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Now the trigger, someone asking you that question in English has to stay the same someone asks you a question in English.
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What changes though is what happens in the very next second.
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The answer has to start forming in English, not in your language before it's complete.
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Right now, up until now, you've been wanting to speak after you have a complete answer formulated in your head.
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No, you have to start answering, forming your answer in English, even before it's complete, before you have it fully organized, before it's safe.
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And I know this is going to be uncomfortable, but we have to create a new road because that old road, that default road of translating into your language,
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it's not going to work for you anymore.
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This means the new road has to give a payoff to remember trigger routine and payoff.
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That old road had the payoff after you follow a routine.
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This new road we're creating.
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It has to give a payoff to something the brain gets right now.
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The moment stays alive.
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The conversation keeps going.
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You sound present instead of delayed.
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That's the payoff.
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The person listening to you follows along.
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The conversation keeps going.
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This is a payoff.
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There's no pause where they're staring at you.
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And here's the critical point.
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This new road produces a worse sounding answer at first.
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Your grammar may be incorrect.
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You may be stuttering.
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You may be fumbling over your words.
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At first, your answer is going to sound worse than the old road you were following.
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It's going to sound simpler, less impressive, and less like you.
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That's the real barrier.
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And it's not linguistic.
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It has nothing to do with your English ability, the knowledge you have.
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You see the old road hands you a polished answer that arrives too late.
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There's too long of a pause.
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The conversation won't flow with that old road.
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However, even though it's uncomfortable in the beginning, the new road hands you a rough answer that arrives on time,
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keeping the conversation moving.
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Your brain has been trained to prefer the polished road.
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The one that gives you this complete answer.
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However, there's a long pause as you wait for that answer to come.
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But my friend fluency English fluency requires preferring being on time versus preferring being perfect and complete.
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I know it sounds weird, but stay with me.
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Fluency requires being on time, preferring the timing over the complete response.
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This leads us to part number three, how this new habit, this new road is built.
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The one rule of habit change.
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I want to tell you is this, you cannot remove a habit, that old road.
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You can't remove it.
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You can only replace the middle of it.
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You see every habit again has three parts.
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Two of them say we mentioned earlier the trigger.
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You're going to keep this part of a habit.
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Keep the trigger.
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You can't stop people from asking you things in English.
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So the trigger is going to remain for our new habit.
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Part two, routine.
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This is the only piece of a habit that will change.
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Remember we have trigger, routine, and payoff.
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The trigger, you have to keep it.
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The routine is going to have to change.
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And the payoff, you want to keep it.
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The brain will not accept a swap, a change out of a habit that gives it nothing.
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So you need the trigger and you need the payoff, the trigger and the payoff.
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Now, most people listen closely try to change the trigger.
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How?
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They try to avoid the situation.
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If they see someone coming, there's a native English speaker.
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They try to go the other way.
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If someone is speaking in English, they try to slowly step back.
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They try to change the trigger by avoiding the situation or they fight the payoff.
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Just tolerate feeling bad.
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You see both fail though.
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The only workable target is the middle.
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You have to change the routine.
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Now here's the gap.
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You see between the trigger and the routine, there is a tiny space, half a second where the brain has not committed yet.
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You receive the question.
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This is the trigger.
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The brain has not decided which road, which path to take yet in an old habit.
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That space is invisible.
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You automatically lean to that road, the trigger and routine feel like one motion.
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Question is asked automatically go to my brain and I translate it in my language.
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That feels like one motion.
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Habit change lives entirely inside that space right in the middle.
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Everything else is automatic.
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The first job isn't doing something different.
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It's noticing that the space exists.
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Hold on.
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Someone asks me a question and there is a short moment where my brain is trying to decide how to answer,
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how to deal with this question.
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That's the space you have to notice.
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This is why awareness has to come before effort.
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Do you recognize that short space of time after someone has asked you a question?
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You cannot redirect a road you don't know you're on.
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If you don't even realize that space, you just automatically go to that initial road.
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Once you can fill the gap, that short period of time, you have a choice.
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Before recognizing it though, you don't.
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So how does this new routine get built?
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Now it has to be small.
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The brain will not adopt a large, effortful replacement.
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It compares cost.
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Think about that old road.
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It's cheap.
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It's easy.
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You've done it so many times.
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There's no effort.
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There's no extra energy.
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You're just defaulting to what is easy.
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However, the big new road is expensive.
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It is going to take a lot of effort.
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If that's the case, you will always go back to the old road because it's less effort, less energy required.
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The new routine.
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So must be so small.
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It barely qualifies as an action in order for your brain to switch to this new habit,
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But this new road, it must be a small incremental change, small enough that skipping it takes more effort than doing it.
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So it has to be tied to the same trigger.
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What's our trigger again?
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Someone asking you a question in English.
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Now a new routine floating on its own is just a good idea.
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It has to be attached to something.
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It has to be tied to an existing trigger.
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Our trigger again is someone asking a question in English.
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It now will become a reflex as you're training yourself.
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So it's the same starting point, the same doorway, just a different room.
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We're going to a different routine.
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Now it has to pay off immediately.
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The brain doesn't accept promises.
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It accepts results now.
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So a payoff six months away is invisible to the part of the brain that runs habits.
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You need an immediate payoff and immediate response.
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So this new routine, this new habit, right?
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We're forming part two, being the routine trigger, then routine has to reduce something you can feel in the same moment you do it.
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As soon as you do this, it has to be immediate relief, momentum, the sense that something worked again.
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Again, this is why you keep defaulting to the old habit, the old road, because there is a payoff with this new habit,
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this new routine that has to be an immediate payoff.
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Now, the next thing is it has to repeat more often than it has to go well.
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So frequency builds the road.
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Remember we started our lesson off speaking about this road,
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this grass that you're walking through this creating this road because you're going through it over and over and over again.
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Frequency builds this new road.
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Quality does not.
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This is something that as I've worked with so many English learners over the years, I have to get them to understand.
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And I want you to understand the same thing.
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You've been focusing on perfecting your grammar.
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Grammar is important.
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You've been working on making sure you use the right word, the right expression.
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These things are important.
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However, when you are trying to stop translating, stop going down this road and create a new road,
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a new habit, you cannot focus on quality first.
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You have to focus on frequency doing it over and over and over.
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Don't worry.
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The quality will come 20 rough repetitions, making mistakes.
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Be too careful ones.
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You're going to make mistakes.
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Keep making them over and over.
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Think about a child, a baby
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when a baby is trying to learn how to walk those first steps those first few months are rough
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that baby is not work walking perfectly but the baby Continues to do it over and over and over again.
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Repetition is important.
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And eventually that baby starts to walk.
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Well, turned into a toddler, turned into a little kid, continues to do it over and over again, and then the quality comes.
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This is the part that English learners get backwards.
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They wait until they can do it well, which means they never do it often.
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I am telling you today, if you want to create this new road, This new habit, not translating.
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That's the default.
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The old road is translating into your language.
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If you want to stop translating, create this new road, you have to do it.
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Making mistakes often, frequently, just keep going.
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Now here's the dip that nobody warns you about.
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There is a stretch and the hardest stretch where the new road is still grass.
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It's slow.
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It's awkward.
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It's unreliable.
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You're going to be stumbling, making mistakes.
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You're going to feel like what's wrong with my English, but you have to keep pushing through.
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The old road is still a highway and you kind of look back on it and say, ah, it's just so comfortable for me just to translate in my language and just go back there.
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It feels familiar.
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It feels faster.
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It feels smooth sitting right there waiting for you
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and the results from the new road are objectively worse than what the old road was producing.
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You're at this crossroad.
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I can just default back to translating and I'll get a complete answer.
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Doing this new way, creating this new habit, I'm making mistakes and it doesn't feel comfortable.
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This is the moment almost everyone,
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almost every English learner quits and they quit for a rational sounding reason this new road isn't working.
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I was better before.
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That's the thought that pops in their mind.
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They were.
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That's what the transition looks like.
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Getting worse temporarily is the entry fee, not a sign of failure.
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Listen to me.
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You making mistakes over and over again is not a sign of failure.
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It's a sign that you're making a new path.
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You're creating a new road.
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And if you keep going down this new road, you will succeed.
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Now the old road you have to remember doesn't die.
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The old road doesn't go anywhere.
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It stays packed down for years, kind of calling your name.
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Hey, if you ever get nervous, come back, come back to me.
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I have your back.
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You can rely on me.
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Just translate to your own language under pressure, being fatigued, or when When there are high stakes, the brain reaches for the strongest available root,
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which is still the old one.
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Slipping back is not starting over.
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The new road doesn't vanish because you took the old one once.
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Listen closely.
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If you fall back into translating, the new road isn't going to go anywhere.
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The habit is broken not when you stop using the old road, but when the new one becomes the first thing your feet find.
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Listen, the old road doesn't go anywhere.
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The new road is being created and every once in a while you're going to default back, go back to translating.
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The new road is still there, but the habit is not broken.
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This habit, this new habit is not grasped until it's the first thing you reach for instead of the old habit.
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This leads us to part number four, building the new routine.
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Remember we have the trigger, the routine and the payoff building the new routine.
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So what the routine actually is the old routine was you hear the topic, whether it be that English question or a discussion topic,
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you build the answer in your language, and then you convert it to English.
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Here's the new routine, the new habit here the topic reach for a shape I've already built in English.
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I'm going to break it down for you.
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You see, the difference is not effort.
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It's having somewhere to reach.
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The reason your mother tongue wins is that it's the only place of fully organized answer already exists.
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Of course, you've been speaking your mother tongue, your mother language, your entire life.
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So you have organized answers already.
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They're ready to be accessed.
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The new routine fixes that by putting organized answers in English before the conversation happens.
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Oh, I love teaching English.
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When you start having ready -made answers, think about food.
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Okay.
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We're going to pause really quickly.
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Think about food.
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You have food that you can buy in a package, right?
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You go to the store.
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It's a frozen meal.
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You put it in the microwave and you heat it up and it's ready to eat.
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Then you have homemade food.
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You have to take the ingredients and put them together.
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It takes a bit more work.
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What we're saying is you're going to have ready -made answers that you can just take out, pop in the microwave in your brain and then produce the response.
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That's what the fluency panion is.
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It's not a lesson.
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It's a set of pre -built roads.
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We're going to get now into the routine.
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The routine is called the fluency panion.
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There are four rings for the fluency panion.
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Again, developing this new habit, this routine.
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So there are four rings.
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The center ring is the topic or the question.
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Remember, we're building this new routine.
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The center is the topic or question.
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One thing, not a lesson, not a category, something someone actually asks you.
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Ring number one now is the three details.
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Facts about that topic.
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Nothing personal, nothing evaluative, just what it is.
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Then the second ring is your opinion plus three reasons.
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What you think and why you think it.
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And now we have a third ring.
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Your personal experience plus the five W's, you know, who, what, when, where, and why.
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Now each ring is a complete answer on its own.
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Any of them can stand alone in a real conversation.
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Remember we have trigger routine and payoff.
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And right now we're creating a new routine using what we're calling the fluency panion.
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Four rings, the center, ring one, ring two, and ring three.
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So let's practice this now.
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I want you to take one topic and answer it three times.
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We're going to do this together.
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Once through each ring out loud.
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In order for us to create this new path, this new road, we have to use this new routine that we're calling the fluency pannion.
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Our new routine with these three rings and this topic in the center.
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So let's say our topic, our center topic is where did you travel to last year?
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That's the trigger as well, right?
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Our topic, the question, where did you travel to last year?
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Ring one, right?
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Ring one routine.
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All right.
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Three details.
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I traveled to Cabo, Mexico.
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It's on the Southern tip of the Baja peninsula.
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The weather stays warm almost all year.
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Most of the town sits right along the water.
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We're making this path.
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We have our routine.
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The trigger was the question.
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Now our first ring for this routine is state three details.
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Now we have the next layer of our routine is ring two.
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Our opinion plus three reasons.
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The question again, the trigger, where did you travel to last year?
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Now ring two is my opinion plus three reasons.
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Ah, I traveled to Cabo, Mexico, and I think it's one of the best places to visit.
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The beaches are beautiful and easy to get to.
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The food is incredible and it doesn't cost much.
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And people there are genuinely warm.
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They made us feel welcome the whole trip.
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I am using this new routine.
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I'm creating this new pathway following the fluency panyan my new
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routine the first routine again was Translate into my language then converted to English.
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No, I'm not translating.
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I'm using my new routine This fluency panyan with the rings
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now ring number three is Personal experience plus the five W's who what when where and why what's the trigger?
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What's the topic again?
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Question, where did you travel to last year?
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Ring 3 is personal experience plus the 5 W's who, what, when, where, why.
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Answer, I traveled to Cabo last summer with two of my closest friends.
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We spent most of the week near the water, swimming in the ocean, walking through the little shops in town at night.
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We went because one of us had just finished a hard year at work and needed to get away.
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It ended up being the calmest I'd felt in a long time.
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What did we just do?
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We have these packages now.
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If anyone ever asks me about my trip or what I did last year, I've already organized the information.
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I have organized information in my language.
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That's that first road.
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But I'm trying to create this new routine.
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So I'm practicing using the fluency panion to create this new road.
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I'm going down it.
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Ring one details, ring two opinion, plus three reasons, ring three personal experience,
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plus the five W's I'm making this pathway going down this way, making this new road, using this new routine, the fluency panion.
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You make sense, right?
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Let's say there's a different topic.
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Can we still use the same path?
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This path is topic details, opinion, plus reasons, then experience plus five W.
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So let's say the topic changes the trigger.
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What do you do for work?
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That's the trigger.
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Can I use the same pathway?
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Ring one, three details.
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Ah, I work at a logistics company.
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I handle the scheduling side.
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So I'm mostly dealing with delivery windows and driver routes.
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It's a mid -sized company around 200 people.
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I've been there about four years now.
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Three details.
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I'm going down this new pathway, making this new routine, had the trigger, but my routine is no longer to translate.
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My routine is to follow the fluency opinion.
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Ring number one.
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Now ring number two, opinion plus three reasons.
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The trigger, what do you do for work?
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Ring two, opinion plus three reasons.
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I work in logistics and I actually really like it, which surprises people.
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The problems change every day.
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So I'm never bored.
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I can see the results of my work immediately.
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Either the shipment lands on time or it doesn't.
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And my team is small enough that everyone knows what everyone else is dealing with.
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Now ring number three, we're going down this pathway.
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We are building a strong pathway.
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Now personal experience plus the five W's who, what, when, where, and why.
504
What's the trigger question again?
505
What do you do for work?
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Now ring three.
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I ended up in logistics almost by accident.
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Four years ago, a friend told me her company was short -staffed and asked if I'd cover for a few months.
509
I took it because I needed the work and I figured I'd leave by the summer.
510
Then one week we lost half our drivers to a storm and I spent three days rebuilding every route from scratch.
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That's the week I realized I was good at it.
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I never left.
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We're building a new routine following the fluency panion.
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Listen, I no longer have to translate.
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I'm following this routine.
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Topic or trigger ring one detail ring two.
517
Yes.
518
Excellent.
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Opinion plus three reasons.
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Ring three.
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Yes, personal experience plus the five W's.
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What about this topic?
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What did you do this weekend?
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Ring one, my routine, three details.
525
I stayed home mostly.
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I finally cleaned out the closet I'd been ignoring since January.
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I cooked instead of ordering food and slept in both mornings, which almost never happens.
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Three details.
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I'm going down this path again.
530
Now ring two opinion plus three reasons.
531
I had a quiet weekend and honestly, I think quiet weekends are underrated.
532
I get to catch up on things that have been sitting there for weeks.
533
I actually rest instead of coming back to Monday exhausted and I don't have to be on for anyone, which I need more than I like to admit.
534
We are making this new path, this new routine following the fluency panion.
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Ring one, three details.
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Ring two, opinion plus three reasons.
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Ring three, personal experience plus the five W's.
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What's the trigger again?
539
What did you do this weekend?
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Now ring three, personal experience plus the five W's.
541
Who, what, when, where, why?
542
On Saturday, my sister called and asked if she could come over.
543
So she and her daughter showed up around noon.
544
We didn't do anything special.
545
We made lunch, sat on the floor, and my niece made us watch the same cartoon three times.
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She stayed until it got dark.
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I've been planning to spend the whole weekend alone and it turned out to be the best part of it.
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Same topic.
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Three complete answers.
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Three separate roads.
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Why?
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Three details.
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Yes.
554
Excellent.
555
Come on now.
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Opinion plus three reasons.
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Or you can do personal experience plus the five W's.
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We have these three roads to go down.
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Again, helping you think in English.
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Now why three and not one?
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Why do we have this fluency painting that gives us three options?
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You see one answer is a script, but three answers form into a habit.
563
I kept saying we're going down this new road, but this new road has three different paths.
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It's actually three roads.
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One answer is simply a script.
566
If you practice a topic one way.
567
You've memorized a sentence when the conversation shifts, when someone asks why instead of what the sentence doesn't fit
568
and you fall back to your language to build a new one.
569
Three ways means the topic has three exits.
570
Whatever direction the conversation goes, one of these three will fit.
571
More importantly,
572
your brain stops storing the answer and start storing the topic as a whole with three ways out of it already attached.
573
You see, my friend, it teaches the brain to search in English.
574
The old habit is a search.
575
The moment a topic appears, your brain asks, where do I find an organized version of this?
576
It looks in the place where organized answers live.
577
So every time you build three answers in English, as you practice, you're moving inventory from the old road to the three new roads.
578
You're putting everything, you're putting everything in English.
579
You're organizing things in English where the search can be found.
580
Hey, I'm going to search in this area.
581
Now, eventually the search stops leaving the language because it doesn't have to.
582
Instead of it leaving English, it now knows, Hey, I have three options, three roads I can go down.
583
Now this breaks the dependence and it helps you start to give complete answers in English.
584
Your mother tongue is attractive because it gives you the whole answer before you speak, you have organized answers.
585
They're ready for you.
586
Three rings do the same job, but each ring is small enough that you can start speaking before you know how it ends.
587
Ah, I know the first ring, three details.
588
I know the second ring.
589
Okay.
590
I can give my personal opinion and three reasons.
591
Ah, the third ring, I can give my personal experience and five W's.
592
Ring one needs three facts.
593
Ring two needs one opinion.
594
Ring three needs one memory.
595
None of them require you to have the finished paragraph in your head first.
596
This is why this new routine will work for you.
597
So what does this look like in a real conversation?
598
Someone asks about your travel.
599
You don't build the answer in your old way, following the old routine, going to your mother tongue.
600
You now reach for the answer.
601
If you want facts, if you want to give them facts, ring one is already there.
602
If they want your take your opinion, your thoughts ring two is already there.
603
If they want a story ring three, your personal experience is already there.
604
You're not translating faster.
605
You're not translating at all because the answer was already in English before the question arrived.
606
Ring one, ring two, ring three, ring three, my friend, that's the whole mechanism.
607
The practice happens in advance, mastering each of these rings.
608
The conversation just collects it.
609
Stop thinking in your language, stop translating and finally create your new road using your three rings.
610
I hope you enjoyed this lesson.
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If you want to continue studying with me, I want you to hit the link in the description
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or you can go to www .SpeakEnglishWithTiffany .com forward slash native and I'll talk to you in the next lesson.
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What You'll Practice in This Lesson
This lesson helps you break the habit of translating from your native language before speaking English. You'll learn why your brain relies on this automatic process and how to replace it with direct English thinking. By the end, you'll have actionable steps to make English speaking feel more natural, reducing delays and improving clarity in conversations.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Trigger: The event that starts a habit (e.g., "A question in English is a trigger for translation").
- Routine: The automatic action that follows a trigger (e.g., "Translating in your head is the routine").
- Conserve energy: To save mental effort (e.g., "The brain conserves energy by using habits").
- Automatic: Done without thinking (e.g., "Speaking English automatically feels easier").
- Flatten a trail: To create a habit through repetition (e.g., "Practicing daily flattens a trail for English thinking").
Practice Tips for Shadowing
Shadowing is a great way to build direct English thinking. Here's how to apply it to this video: - Match the speed: The video's tone is conversational, so shadow it at the same pace. Pause and replay short sections if needed, but aim to keep up to train your brain to process English in real time. - Focus on the trigger-routine connection: As you shadow, notice when the speaker talks about habits. Repeat phrases like "the trigger starts the process" to link the concept to your own speech. - Use a shadowing app: Apps like ShadowSpeak or ShadowSpeech can help you record and compare your shadowing to the video, highlighting gaps in timing or intonation. - Practice daily: Consistency is key to "flattening a trail" for English thinking. Even 5 minutes a day with shadow speech exercises will help replace translation habits with automatic English responses. By combining these tips with the video's insights, you'll make progress in stopping translation and speaking English more fluently.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been trying · You've been relying · you've been following |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If that's the case, you will always |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have passed · You've heard · you've said |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | has been rewarded · be built · has been trained |
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.