Shadowing Practice: YOU NEED TO KEEP GRINDING - Motivational Speech - Learn English Speaking with Video

You don't have to be born in a certain neighborhood.

You don't have to be born in a certain family.

You don't have to have a certain socioeconomic status.

It only takes one thing to get what you see other people have that you want.

And it's called effort.

Effort?

Nobody can judge effort.

Because effort is between you and you.

Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Effort is isolated.

The reason why effort is isolated is because nobody can dictate it.

Effort is 100% in the mind.

No coach, no player, nobody else can make you run to the ball.

Nobody else can make you finish your tackle.

Nobody else can do it.

That's why it's the most isolated things on this earth right now.

It's effort.

There's so much in you that you have not unlocked.

That you walk around and be like, God, I feel like I'm missing something.

Yeah, because it's about 75% of you is still in there.

It's still chained up because you just didn't want to find your willpower.

Didn't want to find your soul, your will, your heart, your determination, your guts, your courage.

You find it in the suck and you find it repeatedly in the suck.

To the point where you know exactly who you are.

I hear it all the time.

Gagas has a great message, but you don't want to end up like him.

His body's all up.

You're not afraid of having a up body.

You're afraid of the effort.

See what you understand is this, we're all being tested and that road to success is a bumpy ass road.

It has potholes, nails, detours, a lot of you are gonna die with a nicely preserved body.

No plates, no bad knees, no bruises, no scars.

You also have an empty resume.

Don't be afraid to get scars.

The scars show your willingness to get to the other side.

They show your failures.

They show your willingness to start from scratch.

They show what you're willing to do to go the distance to see what you're capable of.

Kobe Bryant spent his entire life playing ball.

He spent all his money, all his time, all his energy, all his capital, all his effort, everything in mastering what other people never mastered.

You have to be unstoppable and be the top 1% in your industry

and put yourself in that bracket where you're

so good at what you do when you run into somebody you make them look like an amateur.

If you want to build something big you're going to have to catch on fire.

You're not going to be casual and build this big life.

You're going to have to get psycho.

You're going to have to become insane.

You're going to have to get crazy.

You're going to have to get obsessed if you want to build that lifestyle and that life.

You've got to quit negotiating the price you're paying.

Aren't you doing that all the time?

It's too much.

I cost this.

I'm losing this time.

I got this.

This sacrifice.

Everyone around you is telling the price is too big.

You have to stop negotiating the price.

That's what poor people do.

See, when I was poor and I'd walk in the store, everything was not what I wanted.

It was, what's it cost?

What's the price tag?

I was always flipping price tags over.

I could never get what I wanted because I was so consumed with what things cost.

If you keep consuming yourself with what it's costing you, the time, the effort, the energy, the pain, the money, you consume yourself with the cost, at some point you have to negotiate and say,

my will to win is not for sale.

I may not be the fastest, the smartest, but I'm not quitting.

That is a freaking thing.

A total commitment, people think, man, when you make a total commitment, you lose all freedom.

Completely backwards.

A total commitment to something is total and complete freedom.

Because now you just execute.

When you spend your time negotiating the price all the time, it's a diversion, it's a distractiveness, it's a poverty mindset.

Your will to win cannot be for sale.

And here's the truth.

Most people's will is for sale.

Eventually, they'll relent with enough failure, enough setbacks, enough hurt.

Eventually, they just go, nah, I surrender.

They don't say it that way.

They say it like, ah, it just wasn't for me, timing wasn't right, and they relent.

So they didn't have the guts to keep going.

And that is the difference between winners and losers.

Winners look at the results being produced.

Losers concern themselves with how much time they were spending.

They think that there's some sort of an award for talking about how tired they are and how exhausted they are.

Totally tired.

No sh- That's a prerequisite to success.

Every single thing that has ever been built, Every single thing that is worth mentioning in the history of Earth was built by people who were tired

Every single thing you're supposed to be tired.

Can you execute when you're tired?

That's the question that you need to be answering

90% of winning in life is being a good person

and having the skills to do it the last 10% is a dogfight That 10% at the top is a dogfight.

It's a slugfest.

It's inches.

It's millimeters to win.

It's attacking It's a strategy, it's the extra hour, it's the one more rep at the gym, the one more phone call.

You start fighting for those inches, you start getting addicted to those inches, those millimeters.

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That's the separator.

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And you stack up enough for those over time, you're gonna win.

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There are things that come to workers that don't come to people who just wish.

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I mean I have money, I mean I have connections but the one thing I do have is I have the ability to get up and work.

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It wouldn't be fair if just anybody and everybody could just get a degree

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and not have to work because guess what it would mean?

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It would mean your degree is worth nothing.

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If other people didn't have to work hard, didn't have to sweat, didn't have to stay up all night, didn't have to do research, didn't have to go to the library, didn't have to sacrifice sleep, didn't have to make sacrifices in life,

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if everybody just threw out degrees, They wouldn't be worth anything.

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And there are people who say, I want to do what you do, and I say, you don't.

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You want what I have, but you don't want to do what I do.

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You just think you don't go through nothing, you go straight to the top?

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Patiently endure.

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Your problem is you don't know how to patiently endure.

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You want the reward that comes with being patient, but you ain't patient.

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No will, no reward.

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I had to fight for this.

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I had to wake up at three o'clock in the morning for this.

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I had to get multiple degrees for this.

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I had to go through stuff in my personal life for this.

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Guess what?

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I was willing to pay the price.

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Everything I've been through, it was worth it all.

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So if you want the rewards, go do the work.

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Ain't nobody gonna hand you nothing.

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Ain't nobody gonna hand you no championship.

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Ain't nobody gonna hand you no title.

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It's your dream.

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If you want it to happen, get your butt up and make it happen.

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If you want it to happen, rise and grind.

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You've been given the freedom of choice and you can choose.

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If you want something that you've never had before, you have to do something that you've never done before.

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If you're going to be successful, if you're going to make it happen.

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If you really want the reward, put in the work.

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Put in the reps.

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It might take 10 reps, 20 reps, 100 reps.

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It might take a thousand.

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It may take 10 thousand. Who cares?

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Just put in the rep, put in the rep, put in the rep, and keep putting in the reps.

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And after you keep putting in the reps, put in some more reps.

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Then give me another rep.

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Give me a rep, give me a rep, give me a rep.

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If you put in the reps, and you put in the reps in the right way, and you put in enough reps, and you make the sacrifices, you will wake up one day,

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and that rep will turn into a reward.

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I don't care what's going on around you, what kind of day it is, if it's raining, if it's sunny,

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if it's snow, because it's not what happens around you that determines your success.

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It's what happens inside you.

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Don't cry about it.

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Don't give up.

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Don't trim.

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Just make the adjustment.

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You can't control the elements.

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You're spending so much time on what you can't control that you ain't got time for the stuff that you can't control.

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What you can control is putting your gym shoes on and going for a run.

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What you can control is what you get from the grocery store.

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What you can control is what time you go to bed.

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What you can control is what time you wake up.

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What you can control is what you watch on TV.

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What you can control is how you use your schedule.

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What you can't control, you can't control and that's what I want you to focus on.

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And there are those of you who because of what you've been through, you are quitting, you are giving up, you are surrendering.

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E, I had a meltdown in class.

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I said you might have a couple more before success.

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It's a part of the game.

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You can't be successful without some meltdowns.

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Struggle for another year and a half and be free for the rest of your life.

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Or you can say, I'm tired of struggling and stop struggling and struggle for the next 20, 30 years.

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Don't you run from your calling.

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Don't you run from your kiff.

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Don't you run from the struggle.

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That struggle is meant to make you strong.

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Every single day you wake up, I press toward the mark.

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Every day when you wake up, you strive for that.

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I don't care what today looks like.

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Don't be talking about what didn't work yesterday or the day before.

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I don't care about that.

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I forget those things which are behind.

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And I press.

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I press.

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Press past it.

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Come on.

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Press past it.

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Stop whining and crying and give it up.

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Press past it!

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It's going to hurt!

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Yes!

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Ask any mother that's had a child.

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Kids probably feel like they're gonna die.

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But guess what?

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They get through it.

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And on the other side, when that child comes out, they forget all about the pain.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “YOU NEED TO KEEP GRINDING - Motivational Speech”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: rep, effort, nobody, price. This video has 190 sentences and 1842 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:48. The speaker talks fast, about 209 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% 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

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
negotiate verb	/nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/	To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
isolate verb	/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/	To set apart or cut off from others.
scar noun	/skɑɹ/	A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
consume verb	/kənˈsum/	To use up.
dogfight noun	/ˈdɒɡ.faɪt/	A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
patiently adverb	/ˈpeɪʃəntli/	In a patient manner.
relent verb	/ɹɪˈlɛnt/	To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency.
meltdown noun	/ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/	An act or process of melting.
guts noun	/ɡʌts/	The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
willingness noun	/ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/	The state of being willing
endure verb	/ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/	To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
execute verb	/ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/	To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
loser noun	/luzɚ/	A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
surrender verb	/səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/	To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
bruise noun	/bɹuz/	A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
give up verb		To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
butt up verb		To touch closely, to scrape (against); to press firmly (against).
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.

Sentences worth repeating

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

You don't have to have a certain socioeconomic status.
You're not afraid of having a up body.
You're afraid of the effort.
Aren't you doing that all the time?
Can you execute when you're tired?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be born · is isolated · being tested
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have not unlocked · has ever been built · I've been
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who were · people who just · people who say

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 87 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, patiently /ˈpeɪʃəntli/, diversion /dɪˈvɝ.ʒən/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, prerequisite /pɹiˈɹɛkwəzət/, separator /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/, unstoppable /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/, determination /dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən/

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 negotiate, isolate, scar.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

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?