Shadowing Practice: The Only 15 Minutes You Need To Become Mentally Unbreakable | David Goggins - Learn English Speaking with Video

pretty soon you win pretty soon you'll be at the curlers

and the heart and the dedication and the mindset about everybody

and go themselves you put so much practice into you

that you can ignore every one of them they're telling you you're not gonna make it

and still be able to make it because you have put the practice in

that you know this is the process these people go to

the gym They get big to get jacked they can run fast all that

But the only thing doing is you're coding over

The mind all you're doing is building a bigger stronger quitter

Your mind hasn't gotten any stronger because you haven't gone back in there

and dealt with so second adversity comes like my god I'm so in fit.

What's wrong?

Your mind is still soft So I work on the mind You've been working out but your mind's not prepared.

Story for you.

When I was 19 years old, I was going through the Air Force trying to be a pair of rescuers.

I was doing push-ups, sit-ups, swimming.

I was doing all this shit, knocking out of the park.

One of the best in the class.

But the second the fucking obstacle got in my fucking way, I wasn't prepared for it mentally.

I was a beast.

All I was doing was I was training a bigger, stronger, faster, quitter.

You got to train your fucking mind for all obstacles that might get in your way.

Or if you can't run, give a fuck.

It was never about running.

Why do you think I run?

It's the one thing I hate the most to do and I do it like I love it.

I don't just run a mile, two miles.

250, 60, 70, 300 mile runs at one time.

No sleep.

I get to the fucking start line.

Cussing at Jennifer.

Why the f* am I here?

I hate this s*.

After 70-some hours of running, every f*ing question I ever had is answered.

Every question I had is answered.

Two heart surgeries, multiple knee surgeries, and after every knee surgery, they say you're not going to run again.

And I'm fine with that.

There's no running up here, bro.

None.

This was what it was all about.

Perhaps they have that victim mentality, right?

They're just the world's against me.

I can't catch a break every time I try to do this This happens some narrative

that they're spinning about their life, right?

Like what's the first step out of that?

Well, like I've said a million times before the most important conversation is the one you have with yourself

You wake up with it.

You walk around with it.

You go to bed with it Eventually you act on it.

Sometimes you act on it good sometimes bad.

You got to change the internal dialogue that person in your head that's talking

that to you until you change the internal dialogue in your head until you callous over the victims mentality

that the world is out to get you

because of you are the only you got to change

that man yeah

but you don't understand my life David yeah I do that's the thing about it I get

that mentality I once had that mentality

that no one understands the fk I'm going through and

if you keep that mentality you're gonna stay in the same exact spot

that you're in

that no one understands me there's a whole there's millions of people you're never alone everybody's going through

so when people get this mentality of like you don't understand me

you can throw a rock to someone that can understand you

if they're willing to break themselves down

and stop hiding a lot of people understand you but you got to stop hiding that's why I tell people

A lot of people are going through sh.

They just hide better than you did.

A lot of the crap that you're in today, I know I'm gonna do it.

That's the haunting part, is that it's going to happen.

It has to happen, and that's a fact.

Like, there's no get out of jail free card, bro.

None.

Like, that is a life that I don't know.

I don't have that ability, or I have the ability, I don't have the, I'm not good enough,

smart enough, I'm not talented enough to do that.

Some people are.

Some people can start at one.

Some people don't have to start at all.

If you lack talent, you can't sit back and say, I'll start in half an hour.

I can't do that.

I gotta start now.

And after I get back from starting, I gotta start again.

And then when I get done with that run or that study session if it wasn't good enough, I gotta go back again.

Because repetition is what is what taught me everything.

I wanted to feel something besides defeat.

I wanted to just go to distance and that going a distance pushed me to a point of

where now I go way past the distance.

When you have a real fear of dying and being just another person that I live to pay the bills.

I mean a thousand dollars a month.

This is my life.

I pray for cockroaches, man If that makes you feel good, that's great.

It didn't make me feel good.

I put everything

Ruin relationships ruin this ruin

that put everything on fact I have to become someone in this world

or I'm no good for anybody I wanted to the first

time my life after 26 years is 24 25 wherever I

was I wanted to feel good about myself I was like

mother what are you doing out here Goggins like this is crazy like

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you're you're literally trying to reinvent the wheel but I was trying to reinvent my mind

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I was trying to reinvent my mind

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and I used every single tactic possible to do

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that I didn't want to live you know live in this world where I was a fake human being anymore

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and I was tired of blaming everybody for where I was at I wanted to be

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that I want to be the guy

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that people looked at I don't give you like me

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or didn't like I don't care

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but I said this mother was gonna keep coming after whatever the is in front of them.

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I wanted that.

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I wanted that.

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I wanted that worse than anything in the world.

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It comes from a disgusting place of not being fulfilled in your life,

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of afraid of dying, having never accomplished anything.

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I have all these epiphanies, man.

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I have all these moments of like, it's crazy, man, of this thought.

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I'm always by myself, I'm always in deep thought about how to be better.

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I look out there, I'm like, man, I wonder how many of you mother in there

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just are so upset with how you lived your life and just regret how you lived it.

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And I'm running a 300-pound man thinking, man, don't die like this, bro.

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So people wonder where this comes from for me.

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It comes from such deep thought of trying to see what this is all about.

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What is this life all about?

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What am I all about?

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Why am I here?

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you know I had to I had to find purpose

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and my suffering it had a purpose my dad beat me

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this happened I mean my dad ran prostitutes man my dad

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literally snatched the soul out of my mom like my mom is still battling

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so I saw my dad through an eight-year-old's eyes so

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so we left when I was eight

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and then at 22 I went back to see him through

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a grown man's eyes he was the same person I I remember, but I had to.

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You can't live with hate.

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You cannot move forward.

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As much as that guy tried to ruin all of our lives, that's where I came from.

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I had to figure out the origin of where I started from.

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So when I was going back through my life trying to fix who I am, the person I was, like if your knee hurts, it's usually not your knee that's hurting.

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It's something else, man.

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Like it could be a tight quad.

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It could be the right leg if it's the left leg.

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You gotta find out the origin of where all this began.

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And it was him.

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Everything I've ever done in my life, I didn't want to do.

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Everything, every day.

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I'm a lazy piece of shit.

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And I'm one of the hardest working people that ever stepped foot on this planet Earth.

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And I'm saying that very proudly because I know what I do.

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It's not cocky.

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I lived, I woke up like every human being does and goes, fuck man, I'm a piece of shit today.

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How the hell is this gonna work out for me?

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And you fight that.

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And you fight that, you don't override it.

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There's no override button.

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It's the conversation in your head.

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People have talent.

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People have a lot of talent and this is going beyond your talent.

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So when talent, when there's no more talent, what happens to you?

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Most people quit.

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People only go to their talent level.

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And once their talent level is gone, it becomes a mental game.

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That the whole mental game sets in them.

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And most people can only perform to their talent.

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And they realize, man, why am I always messing up right here?

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It's because you're performing to your talent.

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And then after that, your mind has nothing for you.

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Nothing for you.

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Because you're now at the point now where your talent can do for you, my friend.

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Now it's the mental game.

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And that's where people get lost in life, get lost in that next level.

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And that next level is found for me in the things that I do.

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When I started this journey years ago, and I realized that I'm going to be somebody, and I'm searching for a feeling,

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a feeling of true victory for myself and only myself.

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The second I shut out the whole world and realize that one thing, that I am in this world alone.

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I'm fighting this race by myself.

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No one knows the real truth about me, how hard I really go.

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I don't care if anybody knows.

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I don't want anybody to know.

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I'm an introvert.

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I live an introverted life, And I love that about me.

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It, that right there is my fuel.

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Is I know that there's really no one out there grinding like me.

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And if they are, so be it.

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If I know about you, I'll make sure that I up my game.

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You gotta have the mentality to show up every day of your life.

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No matter what life throws at you.

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It's our responsibility to show up to the Coliseum of life.

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Prepare for battle.

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I don't care what you're going through, what life's thrown at you.

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It's your responsibility to find your new 100%.

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Oh, I ran today, I went to the gym today, I did this and this today, I studied today.

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I have about eight hours off.

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And those eight hours are glorious to me.

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And every day you go back out and you start earning that.

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And every day you wake up, it sucks.

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And when it's over, you feel better.

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It sucks, you feel better.

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And as you get going, every step you take in that journey, You're like for me run I run every day hate it,

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but every step I take I'm like all right You beating the demon again.

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What am I gonna do today to change what I see in this mirror?

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What am I gonna do today?

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And a lot of it was I stopped sitting with the cool guys

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Actually took my shirt in with the school looking like hey man this time I'm gonna look

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if you don't like it So be it I had to really wear this this this layer of skin,

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I had to develop a really calloused skin on me to take whatever you're gonna call me, you're gonna call me.

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But whoever I am, you're gonna see me.

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You're gonna see me for who I am because I need to change who I'm not.

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And I became fat over the years, I fell back in the hole, I called myself fat because I was fat.

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And people don't want to do that.

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They want to say, oh don't call yourself fat.

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Don't call yourself dumb.

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If you're not real and raw with who the you are, are.

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Nothing's gonna change.

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In this nice new world that we live in, we want to hear, you're just a little big.

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No man, you might be fat and it's raw.

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It gets ugly sometimes with me in that mirror, but I'm also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what's in that mirror.

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So the hardest part, you gotta see who you're hanging out with man.

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You gotta hang out with the people who you want to be like the most.

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Yeah, people will definitely drag you down.

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They'll drag you down.

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And especially if you're around someone It makes a lot of excuses and they're always failing.

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Oh Those is just like they're they're the opposite of inspiration.

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They're like a vacuum.

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I'm just sucking it out of you Why are you doing that today, man?

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Why are you getting up again so early?

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Why are you doing this?

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Why are you doing this the people you hang around with me will suck the life out of you?

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Yeah, sometimes just gotta be alone man Get you

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and then there's also people that are gonna be around

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that are always failing and always up

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and then always Coming to you to try to get you to help them exactly come up a giant burden Yes, never look in the mirror and get their own together

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and always looking for external help That's right

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And the reason why I talk about my childhood

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so much in this because I don't want you to put a title on me

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because once you title me as a Freak you now put

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yourself in a position where you can be very comfortable in saying it's just not possible for me Yeah, that's so important because you have done so many crazy things.

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It's very easy to just say well he's a crazy outlier.

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That's it.

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He's that guy.

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He's that special guy.

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Nope.

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And that's the thing that makes me so pissed off in this world, man.

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The one thing that only thing that gets me mad nowadays is

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that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else is better than them.

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And they were born, you know, not with the greatest tools.

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You don't need shit.

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You need the ability to grind your ass into a and when you're in that fine powder, find a way to build that mother back up repeatedly.

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That's possible.

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I gotta tell people man that you can achieve the absolute impossible.

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You don't need great parents.

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You don't need like a private school.

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You don't need to have this humongous GPA and all this other .

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What you need is the one thing I talk about in my book, which is straight up brutal work ethic.

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You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world.

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I'm basically teaching you how to callous over your victim's mentality.

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That's the hard part.

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That's the hard part.

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This isn't like some five-step process where you can do these five steps.

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You're going to end up with this magical world.

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No. What I'm trying to do with people is teach them how to find more of themselves to where they empower themselves.

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I'm all about the underdog.

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believe in yourself and don't

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and don't rely on anybody to believe in you don't rely on anybody to push you

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or make you better believe in yourself and only yourself

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and allow that human being to make you a better person live your life with character honor

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and discipline if you live that way I guarantee it your Your goals and dreams will get accomplished.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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