Shadowing Practice: The 7 Silent Killers of Success - Learn English Speaking with Video

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There's a lot of things that can wreck your chances to do well.

We live in a rather dangerous world.

So you got to be not only wise, you got to be careful.

And attitude diseases are deadly.

I mean, they'll destroy all the good things you start.

So we'll go through those attitude diseases, how to spot them, how to look for them, what they are and the cure.

And I'm a pro on these because I've had them all.

So I can give you excellent advice on these.

Here's the list.

Attitude diseases.

Number one is indifference.

The shrug of the shoulder.

The guy's not even concerned.

He's just drifting.

There's one problem with drift.

You cannot drift to the top of the mountain.

The guy says, well, I can't see getting all that worked up.

Well, to be any kind of winner, you got to get worked up.

Here's the key to the good life.

Learn to put everything you've got into everything you do.

Whatever you are doing, pour it on.

It will quickly open up into opportunity or quickly disclose to you that you ought to be doing something else.

The delusion is if I had a better job, I'd really pour it on.

See, that's delusion.

Wherever you are, pour it on.

See, See, that'll help change your life.

Get rid of this disease.

Here's the next attitude, disease, indecision, mental paralysis.

The guy can't make up his mind and it becomes a disease.

Pretty soon he knows he's got it.

The guy says, well, I know I'm on the fence, but he says, what if I get off on the wrong side?

Listen, after a while, it doesn't matter.

Just get off.

Any side will do.

Here's the best way to live.

One way or the other, that's best.

Pick a direction and go with everything you got.

Just pick one and go.

Somebody says, yeah, but what if it's the wrong direction?

You'll find out quicker.

A life full of adventure is a life full of many decisions

The ones that turn out to be wrong give you better experience to make better decisions

So don't see how many decisions you can get out of see how many

you can get into that's where the adventure is So shake off this disease indecision

The next one is doubt doubts like a plague and one of the worst is self -doubt

There are many but that's one of the worst the guy doubts himself doubts

if it'll last that long for him doubts if he can do

that well doubts if he can make that much doubts if he can accomplish all that

a chronic excellent self -doubter you can imagine what damage that does to your future

so here's the key turn this coin over and become a believer and there's many things to believe in

one of the majors is yourself the understanding of self -worth is the beginning of progress now

if those three don't get you this one will worry that's a devastating disease worry worry causes health problems,

social problems, personal problems, family problems.

It's devastating.

Worry long enough, it'll drop you to your knees.

Could reduce it to begging.

I know how bad this one is.

I used to have it bad.

I used to be known as a super worrier.

Not a super warrior.

No super worrier.

My family wished I'd have been a warrior.

I got those years to make up for.

But I tell you what, my advice to you is do what I finally did on worry.

Give it up.

Who needs it?

I'm not saying it's easy i'm saying it's worth

it it took me almost one year to kick the worry habit

and it was not an easy year it was one of the toughest years i ever spent

but i finally got that monkey off my back

and i discovered you could live the most incredible life free

of worry not free of challenge not free of difficulty free of worry i learned how to do it

and you can here's the next attitude disease over caution some people never will have much they're too cautious now you can

You can also be too reckless, but you can also be too cautious.

This is called the timid approach to life.

And my caution was always the risk.

Risk used to drive me right up the wall.

I used to say, what if this happens?

It's called the language of the poor.

What if this happens?

And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix I'd be in.

I better not try.

I could always ace myself out.

Then I'll tell you what changed my whole life when I finally discovered it's all risky.

The minute you were born, it got risky.

If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying

If you think investing is risky, wait till you get the tab for not investing.

See it's all risky

Getting married is risky.

Having children is risky.

Going into business is risky

Investing your money is risky.

It's all risky.

I'll tell you how risky life is You're not gonna get out alive.

That's risky The Englishman says well if that's the way it's gonna work out, let's give it a go, right?

That's what it's for.

Give it a go

Somebody says yeah, but I'm looking for safety and security fine then huddle in a corner

We'll cover you with a sheet bring you three meals a day and we'll protect you feed you

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Look after you care for you

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We won't let anything happen to you and you'll probably live to be 100 the guy said well, yeah, I'd live to be 100

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But what a way to live right?

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What a way to live safe

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and secure don't ask for security ask for adventure better to

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live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.

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Here's the next attitude disease.

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We're almost through with this molly list.

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In fact, we're almost through.

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Hang on.

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The next one is pessimism.

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Pessimism, the deadly disease of always looking on the bad side, the problem side, the difficult side, checking all the reasons why it can't be done.

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The poor pessimist leads an ugly life.

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He doesn't try to figure out what's right.

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He tries to figure out what's wrong.

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He doesn't look for virtue.

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He looks for faults.

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And when he finds them, he's delighted, how ugly.

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This is the poor guy looks through the window doesn't see the sunset

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He sees the specs on the window

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and this is the poor guy right who rushes up takes such leave of his senses

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This guy rushes up and he says I've got five good reasons why it won't work.

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He's so dumb

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He doesn't know all he needs is one.

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He's got five

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To the pessimist the glass is always half empty to the optimist the glass is half full

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Why would the same measure affect people two different ways?

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Answer.

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It all depends on how you look at it.

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Our lives are mostly affected by the way we think things are, not the way they are.

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The way we think they are affects us most.

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There's a subject we don't have time to get into tonight called Better Thinking Habits.

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One of the major things

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Cha taught me when I met him, he said, poor thinking habits keeps most people poor.

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Not poor working habits.

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Most people work hard, but they don't think hard.

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And Shea taught me that the mind is like a factory, a mental factory.

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And whatever you think about all day long pours ingredients into this mental factory

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And that's what builds the economic social financial fabric of your life as you think so you become

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How awesome when he talked about poor thinking habits.

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He had me.

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I used to start the day reading the morning newspaper I mean you can believe that or not.

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I'd get a cup of coffee and read the paper

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I'd load up on wars and riots and murders and stabbings

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and killings and bank robberies and muggings and car wrecks and tragedies I'd even read the back pages

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I seem to like that stuff for some weird reason.

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I'd load up on all that and then I'd start the day.

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You can imagine the kind of days I used to have.

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You walk around on your financial knees.

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They call you economic peewee.

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The guy says, I want to be a great leader.

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Wonderful.

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The first thing we do is follow him to his house.

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When we get there, we walk in and check his library.

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Number one, somebody says, well, why check his library?

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The reason is because what a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory

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and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients.

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You would not believe what some people have got in their house to read.

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You would not believe

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One of the best dressed up words.

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I know for a lot of it is trash

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Can you imagine dumping a barrel of trash into this mental factory every day

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and coming out with a rich dynamic positive life?

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It can't be done.

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You might as well try making a cake with cement

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The kids back in Danbury, Connecticut High School.

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They're asking me questions one day I'm talking to the kids kids got good questions these days

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One of them said to me, Mr. Ron, how do you build the good life?

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I said, it's simple.

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It's not easy, but it's simple.

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Here's how you build anything.

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Select the right ingredients.

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Keep out the wrong ingredients.

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And it starts with thought.

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Everything starts with thought.

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So you must be wise and careful what you think about, because that starts everything.

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I asked the kids, what would happen if somebody dropped sugar in my coffee?

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They said, well, you'd be okay.

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I said, what if some body drops strict nine in my coffee?

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They said, well, you'd be dead.

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I said, correct.

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Lesson one.

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Life is both sugar and strict nine.

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You got to be careful.

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I said, what if my worst enemy drops in the sugar?

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They said, will you be okay?

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I said, what if my best friend even by accident drops in the strict nine?

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They said, well, you'd be dead.

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I said, correct.

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Lesson two.

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Watch your coffee.

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You got to be careful.

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See, it doesn't matter who hands you the bad stuff.

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It doesn't matter where you get the bad stuff it'll still do its damage on your bank account wherever

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you get it, mister.

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Shay gave me one of the greatest phrases when I first met him when he said,

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Jim, every day stand guard at the door of your mind.

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How important.

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Stand guard at the door of your mind and you decide what goes into your mental factory.

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Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental factory because you've got to live with the results.

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Okay, here's the last disease and we're through with this list.

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The last subject is very brief.

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The last disease, but this one is deadly.

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Engage in this one, indulge in it even slightly

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and you might as well forget the future because it's going to forget you.

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Complaining, crying, whining, griping, a Bible word called murmuring.

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Say that'll ace your future.

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Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five.

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And you may have begun what's known as economic cancer of the bone.

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Surely they will soon haul you off into a financial desert

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and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

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I hope I said that well so you won't forget.

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It's a deadly disease.

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Just be on the lookout of the things that can destroy all the good you start.

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The war is on.

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And this evening, tomorrow, mentally, personally, socially, economically, you've got to make sure you're winning the war.

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And this is part of it.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “The 7 Silent Killers of Success”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: disease, risky, worry, doubt, poor. This video has 216 sentences and 2035 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:42. The speaker talks fast, about 210 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% 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
risky adjective	/ˈɹɪski/	Dangerous; involving risks.
habit noun	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	An action performed on a regular basis.
pour verb	/poɹ/	To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
ingredient noun	/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/	One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
adventure noun	/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/	A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
deadly adjective	/ˈdɛdli/	Causing death; lethal.
invest verb	/ɪnˈvɛst/	To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
strict adjective	/stɹɪkt/	Strained; drawn close; tight.
drift noun	/dɹɪft/	Anything driven at random.
rush verb	/ɹʌʃ/	To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
trash noun	/tɹæʃ/	Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
ugly adjective	/ˈʌɡli/	Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
discover verb	/dɪˈskʌvə/	To find or learn something for the first time.
knee noun	/ni/	In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
worked up adjective	Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.
come out with verb	To say (something) unexpectedly.
dress up verb	To put on special or fancy clothes.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get off verb	To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
get out verb	To leave or escape.
get out of verb	To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Worry long enough, it'll drop you to your knees.
My family wished I'd have been a warrior.
I used to say, what if this happens?
Ron, how do you build the good life?
They said, will you be okay?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to have · used to be · used to drive
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I had a better job, I'd really
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be known · is called · were born
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've had · have wasted

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 65 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'd, doesn't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rush /ɹʌʃ/, trash /tɹæʃ/, caution /ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/, cautious /ˈkɔːʃəs/, sheet /ʃit/
Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, economically /ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli/, indecision /ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/, pessimism /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/

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 risky, habit, pour.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?