Shadowing Practice: Wake Up at 5AM | Robin Sharma and Lewis Howes - Learn English Speaking with Video
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The Spartan warriors said it amazingly.
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They said, sweat more in training and you'll bleed less in war.
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This is the thing I hear the most, is people don't believe in themselves.
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And I think what we try to do on the School
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of Greatness is give people tools on how to learn how to do that.
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And, you know, just thinking about something doesn't always work.
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It's taking the actions and seeing the results and building the confidence.
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The 5 a .m club is probably the thing that builds the most belief, because when you have your morning set up with structure and you follow through on these principles, I know when I make my bed,
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when I work out, when I meditate, I am almost bulletproof in my belief because I did what I said I want to do.
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I build momentum.
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I took care of those core things with my mindset, my heart set, my soul set, my health set.
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And it's like, okay, the rest of the day is good now.
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At least I have a foundation.
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So how do you do it when you feel a sense of a lack of self -belief?
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Well you said it, which is get your morning routine right.
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One of the key themes in the 5am club is as you start your morning so you construct and build your day.
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The Spartan warriors said it amazingly they said sweat more in training and you'll bleed less in war.
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So you look at most people and they begin their day like a five alarm fire.
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You know they start checking their email, they start you know hitting the ground running and
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so what the 5am club method is really all about is the 20 -20 -20 formula
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that has worked amazing results with the titans and the A players
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and the billionaires and the sports superstars that I've worked with
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and it's simply the first 20 minutes of your day's intense exercise
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and we can get into why that's important in terms of dopamine
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and reducing cortisol and serotonin and norepinephrine and then after
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that the second 20 minute pocket which we can get into is all about reflection which is It's journaling, meditation, and it's meditation, and it's visualization,
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and you can do some affirmations.
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And guess what?
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You could just sit there in solitude and think.
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I mean, the great heroes of the world were more thoughtful than ordinary people.
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You don't have to be on your phone or writing all the time.
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You can just sit and reflect.
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Yeah, I think tranquility is the new luxury.
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We live in a world where we're addicted to devices, we're addicted to distraction.
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We all know about the dopamine loop of a lot of the platforms out there.
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And so a lot of people are taking the best hours of their greatest days, time that they could spend constructing their monuments, being creative, being productive, serving the world,
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building beautiful lives for themselves and their families, and they are just hooked, hooked to technology, hooked to likes.
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And so, and then the third pocket of the 20 -20 -20 formula, and I go much deeper into it in the book, is all about growth.
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Now, if you give yourself that one hour that I call the victory hour, free from distraction, free from interruption,
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what you're doing is you are building an inner core of heroism and undefeatability so that six o 'clock, you feel fundamentally different.
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Your
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neurobiology has been is on fire your metabolic rate is higher you know this you've actually connected with your values
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if you've taken some time to journal you you've connected with
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your mountaintop you're grounded in what's most important you've practiced some calm
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and you even done some learning you're far more intentional stronger
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and energetic and creative by six o 'clock then you go into our messy world where there's confusion
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and you face challenges and you know
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but you're not busy being busy you're monomaniacally focused on the few things that will get you to your Mount Everest
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Wake Up at 5AM”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hooked, belief, build, hour, club. This video has 48 sentences and 679 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:52. The speaker talks at a natural 175 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| hook noun | /hʊk/ | A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
| formula noun | /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/ | Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. |
| clock noun | /klɑk/ | A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| warrior noun | /ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/ | A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant. |
| sweat verb | /swɛt/ | To emit sweat. |
| construct verb | /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/ | To build or form (something) by assembling parts. |
| meditation noun | /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/ | A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation. |
| distraction noun | /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | Something that distracts. |
| bleed verb | /ˈbliːd/ | To shed blood through an injured blood vessel. |
| addict noun | /ˈæd.ɪkt/ | A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug. |
| amazingly adverb | /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/ | In an amazing manner; in a way that causes amazement; wonderfully. |
| ordinary adjective | /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ | Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 17 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, you've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/
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 belief, hook, pocket.
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.