Shadowing Practice: The 6 Steps To Making Confident Decisions - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I've made personally $400 million from one decision I made from this.
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I have a six step process and I call it OOC EMR.
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I developed this way back then when I had a small business.
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I thought I should start with decision -making, not by all the emotion that I may have of either anxiety or fear or excitement or passion.
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Either one can lead you astray.
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It's like, what do I want?
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What's the outcome?
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That's the first O.
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But start not with what you're afraid of, start with what you want.
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And then I also say, don't ever do this in your head because you can't manage all your head.
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So you write down the outcomes and then you put them in order, and then you put the why.
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So now when you're crystal clear what you want and the order you want it in, and that's critical.
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What's number one?
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You got to be rigorous.
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Now you can make decisions by going into second O, what are your options?
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Now you may not like them all, but you shouldn't lie to yourself and say, this is the only option that'll stress you out.
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So I write out all the options.
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Then I go to OOC is consequences, which is what you're doing the decisions for.
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What's the upside and the downside of each of these decisions, to the best of my knowledge?
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The upside could be this and this, the downside could be that and that.
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Now you know what exactly you want, you know what your options are, and you know upsides and downsides of each.
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So now we're going to go into the last three stages.
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I'm going to evaluate, mitigate, and resolve.
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E, evaluate.
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Now I'm going to evaluate, what's the probability of those consequences?
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Because you might have something that's like, oh my God, if this happens, it's the worst thing on earth.
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But the probability is next to zero, and you're all stressed out unless you evaluate probability you're wasting
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your time you might have some go oh my god
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if this works out it's gonna be the greatest thing in the history of the world
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but the likelihood of happening is zero you can't let those extremes get you
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so you start to see by evaluating what's there
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and then the last two steps are fast it's mitigation mitigation
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means okay i've seen what i want i know my options
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i know the upside down i know what's probable now can i take something from this option
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and mix it with this one is there a way to mitigate the
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downsides and almost always there are and at this stage your brain gets really creative
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because it's not in fear or uncertainty or anxiety
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because you're not in your head it's right in front of you
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and the last part is resolve
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and i gave you a million stories was too late to do
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but i can just tell you i've made personally 400 million
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dollars from one decision i made from this personally i'm just
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i'm trying to give you an economic piece what the spiritual emotional value spend on things is priceless.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “The 6 Steps To Making Confident Decisions”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: option, decision, downside, upside, evaluate. This video has 43 sentences and 532 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:14. The speaker talks fast, about 237 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| evaluate verb | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise. |
| upside noun | /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/ | The highest or uppermost side or portion of something. |
| downside noun | /ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/ | A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous. |
| probability noun | /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ | The state of being probable. |
| anxiety noun | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| outcome noun | /ˈaʊtkʌm/ | That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. |
| resolve verb | /ɹɪˈzɑlv/ | To find a solution to (a problem). |
| consequence noun | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | An effect; something that follows a cause as a result. |
| mitigate verb | /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear. |
| passion noun | /ˈpæʃən/ | A true desire sustained or prolonged. |
| crystal noun | /ˈkɹɪstəl/ | A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions. |
| spiritual adjective | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| excitement noun | /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ | The state of being excited (emotionally aroused). |
| uncertainty noun | /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/ | Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| stress out verb | To become stressed. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. | |
| write out verb | To write at full length or in expanded form. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, mitigation /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, uncertainty /ʌnˈsɜːtənti/, mitigation /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/
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 evaluate, upside, downside.
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.