Shadowing Practice: WHY NOT YOU 2.0 - Powerful Motivational Speech Video - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I know one day I'm going to be somebody and you'll know when I...
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Please look at my face.
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You're somebody now. Do you understand?
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Yeah.
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That's the game.
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I was somebody long before people knew who I was and I believed that.
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You're somebody now, Adesha.
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Why?
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We all ask why we should work this hard.
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Why take that many classes?
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Why go to school that many years?
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Why take the notes?
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Why read the books?
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Why work that hard?
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Why put yourself through the push -ups and the disciplines?
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Why?
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Good question, why?
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Best answer to why, I think, is the second question.
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Why not?
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Why not see how many books you can read, how many classes you can take, how many skills you can develop?
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Why not see how valuable you can become to the marketplace, to your friends, and to your family?
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Why not see what you can make of yourself?
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Why not see how far you can go, how much you can see, how much you can earn, how much you can share.
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Why not?
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I hope all of you can feel how happy I am just one time in your life.
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But guess what?
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You will never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life.
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When they knock you down, when they try and talk about you, and they try and put their foot on your neck.
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If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve.
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Fortify your mind and feel this level of happiness as you rise.
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Why not you?
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With good self -esteem, why not you starting to change and setting goals?
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Why not you starting to make progress toward financial independence?
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I'm really in pursuit of greatness.
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I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.
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I'm inspired by the greats.
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I'm inspired by the greats here tonight, and I want to be up there.
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If we can read, you can read.
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If we can change, you can change.
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if we can figure it out you can figure it out
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if we can turn it around you can turn it around
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there isn't anything you can't accomplish that's what those testimonials would say
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and so i want to say it to you personally why not you you've got the brains you've got the
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the stamina you've got the vitality you've got the interest
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you've got your life ahead of you you've got the future you can do it
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if anybody can do it you can do it
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if one of us can do it hey we all can do it this is why the dark room is
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so important like if i don't put the work in
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if i don't do what is required behind the scenes i'll never step in public authority
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if nobody's told you today let me be the first to
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tell you every single person listening to me is standing at the precipice of the greatest decision
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they could ever make in their lives
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and now here's my last question why not
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now this is a good time set your goals work on yourself work on your skills
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what a good time to get it together what a good time to start
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this process personal development growing changing developing having a good plan for your money and for your life for your future
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why not now no i'm not a part of the country club nope
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i'm not i don't hang out with them
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but i'm still gonna be successful i'm still gonna get to where they are why
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because i owe it to myself and can't nobody stop me
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but me you will not destroy us you will not defeat us to the day i die
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and i just want to ask anybody listening to me why not
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you why not you why can't you be the person
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that changes everything the innovator the trailblazer the disruptor the person
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that makes a decision that I will not be the weakest link in the chain of a dynasty.
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Why not me?
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Why can't you be the one that makes history?
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Why can't you be the one that wins again?
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Why can't you be the one that breaks cycles?
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Why can't you be the one that overcomes the demons that have haunted a family for generations?
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Why not me?
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So I always had a piece of me that felt like the risk's worth taking.
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Why not try to make your dreams come true?
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I'll be honest with you kids.
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One day you die screaming like my father did.
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You might as well go for it.
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You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing, for heaven's sake.
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Why not you?
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You got to drink in an Arizona sunset.
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You got to see the world.
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You got to read the books.
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You got to do the enterprises.
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You've got to be involved in commerce and love and travel and experiences.
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You've got to do it all.
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Why not you?
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You've got to know the results that come from splendid discipline.
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There's nothing like a view from the top.
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The kids are like, oh, the boomers.
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There's unlimited opportunity.
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Gen Z, do you know how many of you make so much money because it's so easy with TikTok and Shopify and Instagram?
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Like, no era ever.
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You have nothing but opportunity
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when you're 20 to 30
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we grew up where you had to eat for 15 years before
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you can even say something
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we couldn't talk kids didn't talk until they were 35 in the company
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this is the greatest era to be 20 to 30
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but these are in their tik -tok feed
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and they've got somebody saying it's the boomers fault they took out all the money
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and we all got and
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if you're a loser you believe it three most common traits of very successful people superiority complex massive crippling insufficiency
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and impulse control so superiority complex I I can achieve this thing, that's the cheese.
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Crippling sense of insufficiency, I fear the cat.
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Impulse control, I'm in a tube.
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There is only one direction that I can go.
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I don't need to make a choice.
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How did I attack today?
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How did I attack yesterday?
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And if I didn't do something I was proud of, I'd write down a sticky note and I would fix it.
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Don't postpone your better future any longer.
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get at it tomorrow with new vigor get
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you some new books ask some new questions set some new goals get
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you a new journal start your projects book get a game
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plan going do some more reading start to make changes have conversations make contact
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and do it now you're talented enough you're hungry enough so do it you are the first pick
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you are the only option and there will never be another way believe that is you it's always been you
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I feel in order to get to where you're going requires a reasonable amount of unreasonability
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not like hey man I'm going to jump off a building
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and fly without the aid of a jetpack that's unreasonable unreasonability reasonable amount is just like you know
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why not me why not
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you some people have done the most incredible things with limited start why not you some people have done
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so well they get to go they get to see it all
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they get to do it they get to be there they get to have it they to enjoy it.
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Why not you?
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Why not you watching the morning mist rise over the mountains of Scotland?
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Exploring the mysteries of Spain, soaking up history in London.
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Why not you?
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You got to take a stroll through the palace of Versailles.
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Why not you?
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You got to have lunch in one of those neat little sidewalk cafes in Paris.
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i mean denny's is okay you got to try farah's someday you got to gaze directly at the mona lisa
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i can show you where to find the most exquisite seashells in miami
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and the bahamas i know where they are why not you you got a shop on fifth avenue
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in new york you got to stay at the waldorf astoria
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have dinner at lou chow's sliced roast goose on a bed of apple street
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why not you
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what is your purpose what is your destiny what is your assignment in this season are you completely sold out to it.
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Are you all in?
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Are you willing to lay your life down?
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Are you willing to die to achieve it?
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There is no tomorrow.
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There is no plan B.
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I am completely devoted to my level one priorities.
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I've been in the comments.
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Why not me?
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Once you find out what you want, Spend the rest of your natural life waking up
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and going after it I wake up every single day and I go after what I want, but if you don't know what you want
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What are you even waking up for?
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You can't have it
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Do not settle
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Do not think that where you are and what you see is all you will ever have
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There is more
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But change Doesn't always come to you
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It comes from you.
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And those of you in this room, you are great.
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You are phenomenal.
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And you're not walking in it.
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When you actually understand it, it's actually fundamentally true.
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You are capable of doing anything.
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You are capable of all of it.
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But I can't, I can't activate something in you that you, you gotta activate that.
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Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small.
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and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living.
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It's the what if I can pull off a f*ing miracle.
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What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be?
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Okay, why not me?
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I've already overcome this.
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Why can't I go and start a company?
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Why can't I build something that's meaningful?
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Because if I looked at it the other way, and started to take, you know, the count of, okay, well,
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I can't do this because of where I come from.
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I can't do this because of how I look.
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I can't do this.
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I wouldn't start anything.
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Everybody will wake up each day doing subtraction.
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I look at my life as an addition.
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We have to decide,
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are you in a place where you are ready to actually shift and do and execute on why you're here?
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All of that is foundationally on your own self -awareness of who you are,
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being accountable, and most importantly finally cutting out the cancer of insecurity out of your body on the things
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that have always been there by shedding light
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this is what you believe is possible is your mindset
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it is what do you believe you are capable of it is what you believe you deserve tell yourself
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that you deserve to be happy you deserve to be fulfilled you will start to see reasons for it ask
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Ask yourself, all these amazing adventures came from somewhere.
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Why not you?
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Why can't you be the one that comes up with that next great idea?
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Ask the question when you're thinking big.
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Why not you?
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And answer it.
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I'm not just doing this motivational video.
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Why not you?
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Why shouldn't you win?
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No, no. Forget motivational.
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Let's get logical.
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Why not you?
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Actually answer that.
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Why can't you be somebody that can do something in your business that's never been done before?
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Why not you? answer it.
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If I want to change my life, it starts with my action.
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It starts with me waking up every day having a plan and not just moving off emotion.
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The greatest fundamental challenge in the world is figure out who are you? Who am I?
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Who am I and what do I want?
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Who am I?
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What do I want?
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What's important to me?
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And then live that.
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What do I want today?
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What do I want out of this day?
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What do I feel at the core?
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Because it's yours.
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I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
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Nothing.
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And by the way, why not you?
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Why not you?
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Why can't it be you?
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What about you is less than, that you are telling yourself is less than?
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Why not you?
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Every one of us is so unique and so special.
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Why not you? you are unique
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and you have gifts to give what keeps you from giving them fear
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and what we are capable of doing is amazing just do it you are able to do
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so much more instead of saying i can't do this i can't do
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that i failed at this i'm incapable of this you can do this like it's gonna be okay
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it's don't let fear hold you back things can be scary
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and you can push through them are you going to have
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thoughts come to your mind of why you can't get
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it you have the ability in your conscious mind to reject
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that idea kick it out of your mind thinking of why
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you can't do something is never going to do you any good
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and keep thinking until you start to think of thoughts of how you can do it the way
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I look at it within myself why not why can't
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I be the MVP of the league why can't
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I be the best player in the league I don't see why not I need you to know that you're enough.
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I need you to know that you're qualified.
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I need you to know that you're called, you're armed, and you're dangerous.
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Talking about wisdom, knowledge, power, authority.
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I need you to know that all you have is all you need.
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Anybody is capable of achieving anything.
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I actually believe that because I think human beings are designed to change.
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You're capable of breaking any pattern.
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You're capable of getting control of your health.
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You're capable of launching a business.
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You're capable of making millions of dollars.
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You're capable of healing your trauma, of finding love, of doing absolutely anything that you put your mind to,
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as long as you are willing to do the work for it and as long as you give up your timeline.
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Because I do believe that people who put in the work get rewarded.
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but you just might not get rewarded when you think you're going to be
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and it might not be the reward
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that you thought you were going to get but you have something unique with inside of you
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you have more to offer not only yourself but the rest of the world know that you matter
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Know that your purpose matters.
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Let me be the first to tell you, there is none like you.
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in all of the earth and i'm just wondering
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if you are bold enough and courageous enough to believe what i'm saying you are enough
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so why not you you can do anything
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and i think one of the most powerful things
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that you can cultivate with yourself is being able every single
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day to have a level of trust in your life in the magic of things in yourself to know
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that this moment right now is also a dot on the map of your life.
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And five, 10, 20 years from now, you will look back on this moment and you will know exactly why this happened.
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And why it happened is it was preparing you for something.
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It was giving you a skill or an experience or some wisdom
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or a relationship that you're going to need for something extraordinary that's coming.
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And when When you believe that, it gives you the strength to face absolutely anything.
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What are you going to do with what you have?
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I'm not talking about how much you have.
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Some of you are business majors, some of you are theologians, nurses, sociologists.
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Some of you have money, some of you have patience, some of you have kindness, some of you have love,
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some of you have the gift of long suffering, whatever it is, whatever your gift is.
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what are you going to do with what you have they say the true hell is
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when the person that you are meets the person you could have been my biggest fear in life
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is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment
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and you talk to something much bigger than you I don't want to sit down have a conversation with someone
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but something that says you're in heaven this is what should have been on earth
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and are you really in heaven now are you in hell thinking about how much
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i left on a table for fear so imagine you're on your death bed
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and standing around your death bed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas
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you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use
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and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed
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and upset they say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say
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and now we have to go to the grave together
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so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed
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when your time comes why not see how much you can do how far you can go why not you
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “WHY NOT YOU 2.0 - Powerful Motivational Speech Video”. This video has 285 sentences and 2943 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:46. The speaker talks at a natural 166 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow. 69 of its 285 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ghost noun | /ɡoʊst/ | A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death. |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
| happiness noun | /ˈhæpinɪs/ | The emotion of being happy; joy; elation. |
| settle verb | /ˈsɛtəl/ | To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc). |
| wisdom noun | /ˈwɪzdəm/ | An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. |
| overcome verb | /ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/ | To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of. |
| discipline noun | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | A controlled behaviour; self-control. |
| inspire verb | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by… |
| activate verb | /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/ | To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate. |
| impulse noun | /ˈɪmpʌls/ | A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels. |
| superiority noun | /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/ | The state of being superior. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| adventure noun | /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ | A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| mystery noun | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| stand around verb | To stand without doing anything; to do nothing productive; to waste time. | |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. | |
| cut out verb | To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Why can't you be the one that makes history?
- Why can't you be the one that wins again?
- Why can't you be the one that breaks cycles?
- Why can't I go and start a company?
- Why can't I build something that's meaningful?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | If you stay down, you will never |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have haunted · it's always been · have done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is required · be involved · be found |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 104 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, can't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: superiority /sʊˌpɪə(ɹ).iˈɒ.ɹɪ.ti/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/
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 ghost, reward, happiness.
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.