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Welcome to the Listening Time Podcast.
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Hey everybody, this is Connor and you're listening to episode 135 of the Listening Time Podcast.
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I hope you all had a good end of the year
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and I hope that you're ready for 2024 and that you're motivated to make this a good year for you.
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and at the time of recording this it's still November.
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I'm recording this very early.
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However when this is released it will be 2024
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so I want to make sure to wish you all a happy new year
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and in today's episode I want to talk about the fact that it's going to be a new year
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when this episode is released.
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Like I said, it's not a new year for me yet.
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It's still November.
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But when this is released, it will be a new year and I want to have a new mindset.
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So this episode will be mostly for myself.
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I want to talk about some of the things that I want to change about my mindset,
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but I think that you might also benefit from it
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because maybe these are also changes that you can make to benefit your mindset this year.
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So I think that this will be a good topic.
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Even though I'm talking to myself here, I am also going to relate it to people in general.
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So hopefully you'll benefit from this.
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And before we continue, remember that
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if you want to really improve your listening this year
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and you want to start to understand native speakers when they speak fast,
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then make sure to join my membership so you can get my specialized listening training.
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So make sure to go down below and click on the link in the episode description.
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That's patreon.com slash listening time.
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And if you feel ready to practice your listening with real conversations, then make sure to join my U.S.
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Conversations podcast so that you can practice with those real conversations that I have with other native speakers.
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The link is also down below.
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That's patreon.com slash U.S.
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Conversations.
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And if you like this podcast, please share it with anyone else you know who's learning English,
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and please give it a five-star rating and write a review.
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All right, let's get started.
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Are your ears ready?
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You know what time it is.
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It's listening time.
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Okay, let's talk about the new mindset that I want to have this year and that maybe some of you
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want to have this year.
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So the first thing that I want to improve regarding my mindset this year is
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that I want to view every day as a gift.
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I already do this and I already understand this.
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I get that this is true, that every day is a gift for me.
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However, I don't act like it all the time.
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There are many times when I don't act as if the fact that I'm alive today is a gift.
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And I kind of take it for granted.
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In English, when we say that you take something for granted, what we're saying is that you don't appreciate it.
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You just view it as obvious that it's true and that you don't really stop to consider that.
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You just say, oh yeah, of course.
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You just take it for granted.
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You don't appreciate the significance of it.
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So for me, I know that every day is a gift,
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but sometimes I take this for granted and I don't really act like this in my daily life.
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I don't act the way I want to act according to this idea.
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So when I say that every day is a gift,
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what I'm saying is that I need to understand that I don't necessarily deserve good things.
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Sometimes we can feel like that, that we deserve to have good things.
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If we have good things, it's because that's how it's supposed to be.
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We deserve that.
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However, I think that if we have that type of thinking all the time,
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then we don't actually appreciate the things that we have.
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We don't appreciate the good things in our life because we view it as something that we already deserve.
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So why do we need to appreciate it?
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However, I don't want to have that mindset.
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I want to have a mindset where I consider every day to be a gift that I don't deserve,
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but God gave it to me.
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So I'm thankful, I'm happy, and I'm going to appreciate this day.
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And I'm not only talking about the day, but all the things inside my day,
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all the things that happen and that I have and the experiences that I have.
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I need to view them as not things that I just deserve,
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but gifts that have been given to me.
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I think that's a good attitude to have.
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And in general, with this mindset, I want to have more gratitude.
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Gratitude refers to being thankful for what you have.
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So if I view every day as a gift and I don't think that I just deserve all of these good things,
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then I can be more grateful.
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I can be more thankful for the good things in my life.
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Because, for example, when you receive a gift from someone else, you're thankful, right?
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You didn't have that gift before.
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No one made that person give you that gift because you deserve it.
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No, the person just gave it to you and you can appreciate it and be grateful.
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And so that's how I want to view things, that every good thing that happens to me,
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every good thing that I have is not something that I deserve.
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It's a gift given to me and I can appreciate it much more and just be thankful throughout my day.
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I think I've talked about that in several episodes, but I think it's really important.
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If you're grateful, your life is going to be a lot better because you actually appreciate things.
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So that's a big thing.
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And if I'm grateful for every day, I think that I'll enjoy my day more.
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I'll enjoy the little things, the details that might seem insignificant.
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I can actually appreciate these details more because I view them as a gift
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and I don't just take them for granted, right?
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So that's an effect of viewing each day as a gift.
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I think that I'll be able to enjoy the little things more.
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And I want to do this because time flies.
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When I say that time flies, I'm saying that time goes by very fast.
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I want to stop and appreciate
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the good things that I have because time goes by fast
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and before you know it you're a lot older
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and you haven't even appreciated all of the cool amazing things that you've had up until that point.
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So that's the first thing that I want to improve about my mindset this year.
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I want to get better at viewing things as gifts
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that I receive and not thinking that I just deserve those things, right?
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So the next thing I want to improve about my mindset is I want to have my thoughts more balanced
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when it comes to thinking about the past, present, and future.
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I think this is one that a lot of people can benefit from.
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I'm sure that a lot of you spend more time than you'd like
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thinking about the past or thinking about the future or living too much in the present and
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not thinking about the future, for example.
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So I think that most of us can improve in this regard,
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and specifically, I need to improve by not thinking too much about the future.
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I'm the type of person that thinks about the future all the time.
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I think about the future constantly.
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And I think that it's good to think about the future.
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There are some great benefits to thinking about the future, of course.
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However, when you think about the future too much, then you run into some problems.
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In English, when we say that you run into something,
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In this context, we mean that you encounter that thing.
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You encounter those problems.
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So more specifically, because I think so much about the future,
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the future is always on my mind.
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Because of this, I deal with anxiety and I can't always enjoy the present.
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And this is something that I really want to change.
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Just like I mentioned when talking about enjoying the little things, I want to be able to enjoy the moment
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and not be thinking about the future when something really great or precious is happening right now.
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So I want to balance that.
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I'm not saying that I don't want to think about the future?
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Obviously not.
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However, I want to have more time thinking about the present, let's say.
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And if you're someone who thinks about the past a lot,
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for example, and I sometimes do this,
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you might also have another issue of maybe feeling like you're always regretting things in the past
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and you can't enjoy the present because of your past mistakes or things like that.
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And I think it's good to recognize your mistakes from the past for sure.
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However, if you're constantly replaying those in your mind and you're always thinking about the past and things that happened,
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that can be another issue, right?
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Or maybe you don't just think about your regrets from the past,
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but maybe you think a lot about how great the past was and how things aren't good now,
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but they were great in the past.
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That can be a depressing thought, right?
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To think that everything was better before, and now things aren't as good.
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That's another issue, right?
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And I think that's a common tendency that a lot of people have.
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We tend to view the past and maybe exaggerate how good it was,
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But really, it wasn't that great.
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And we're just looking at it from a future perspective.
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And so the same thing will probably happen 10 years from now.
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you'll look back to things that are current now
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and you might think that the things now are much better than the things
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that will be happening in the future for example
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so it's easy to fall into that trap
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so I think it's important not to spend too much time thinking about the future or the past.
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And it's also not good to just always think about the present and not think about the past or the future.
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Because if you never think about the past, then you're never going to learn from your mistakes.
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You're never going to learn lessons from experiences that you had.
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you might not appreciate your memories from the past
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so that's not good and
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if you don't think about the future ever then you're not gonna have goals for yourself you're not gonna actually
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plan to achieve certain things,
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and you might fall into the trap of just wanting pleasure now.
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And that's not a good thing either, right?
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We need to learn to also delay our gratification sometimes.
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When you delay your gratification, we're saying that you do the hard thing now,
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or you don't get the pleasure that you want now so
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that you can have it in the future and in a better form, usually.
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And that's an important skill to have.
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So that's why it's also important to not just focus on this moment and having fun right now and that's it.
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We also want to be able to consider the future
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and the consequences of our actions and have goals for ourselves and be able to envision ourselves in the future.
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So I think that's really important as well.
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For me in particular, my problem is that I need to not think too much about the future and instead
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enjoy the moment more and be present in the moment
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and enjoy the little things that are happening right now and appreciate what's happening now.
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So that's another thing that I want to change.
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Another improvement that I need to make is
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that I need to view things that happen to me as not just happening to me,
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but happening for me.
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So I heard someone say this recently, and at first I thought it sounded kind of cheesy.
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When we say that something is cheesy, that means that it sounds kind of cheap or unoriginal or inauthentic.
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It doesn't sound very good.
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I thought it sounded kind of cheesy, but the more I think about it, the more true it is.
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It seems pretty true to me now that I consider this sentence.
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So things happen for me and not to me.
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What I'm saying is that we often feel like we're just the victims of everything that happens.
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Oh man, this happened to me.
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He said that to me.
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that occurred and I just suffered the consequences of all of this.
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Of course, that's the tendency of how we think about bad things or inconvenient things or challenging things.
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That's kind of a normal tendency for people.
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However, if we start to think about these things as happening for us,
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meaning they happen for our benefit,
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then we can actually get something good out of these situations.
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So if we view things as happening to us,
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that means that we complain and get mad and are really negative about things that we don't like that happened.
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However, if we can view every challenge or inconvenience
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or problem as an opportunity to learn or grow or gain experience from,
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then things aren't so negative.
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We can try to take the positive from every situation.
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This is something that I definitely need to work on.
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I want to start to view things as learning experiences rather than just problems that happen to me.
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I really want to improve in that regard,
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and I want to become stronger from the things that happened to me that aren't so great.
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I want to use those things to become stronger,
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to become a better person, to become wiser.
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By the way, the word wise means that you have a lot of intelligence because of experience.
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You're wise.
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So I want to become wiser and just learn from these things instead of complaining about them and feeling sorry for myself.
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I want to get better at seeing these things from a different angle, a more positive angle.
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So, always asking myself, how can I learn from this situation?
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What can I gain from this experience?
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How can I become a better person from this?
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Or what trait do I need to develop or what skill do I need to develop to better handle this challenge?
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right?
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Always trying to look for how I can improve from the situation.
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So that's something I want to get better at.
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And I'm sure some of you might also agree with me there, that that would be a better mindset to have.
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And lastly, I want to give one bonus mindset change here related to language and language learning.
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This is a general one,
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not just for me, but I wanted to give you this extra little encouragement here.
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So with language learning, we can sometimes have a mindset where we want to rush things.
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We want it to go faster.
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We're annoyed when we feel that we're not making progress
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and we get discouraged because it doesn't seem like we're improving fast enough.
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So I think that it's better to have the mindset where you are not rushing.
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Don't rush.
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There's no hurry here.
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You're always going to feel like you're failing if you have a mentality where you want things done really fast.
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You want the improvement to happen really quickly.
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that just simply doesn't happen very often with language learning.
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So if you're listening to me right now, that means that you're practicing your English.
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And if you're practicing your English, you're improving, even if you don't feel like it.
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Even if you don't feel like the progress is happening, if you're actually practicing your English,
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you're doing your listening, maybe you're speaking or whatever, if you're doing this practice, you're improving.
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It might be happening very slowly and you might not realize it, but if you're putting in the effort,
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you're improving because the words that you hear me say and the phrases you hear me use,
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all of these things are going into your brain.
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They might not stay there, but you're at least being exposed to them.
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And you're getting more of this exposure to English every time you do your listening practice.
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And this is helping your brain.
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It's helping the language learning process.
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So this process might be really slow, but it's happening.
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And I think that the mindset change that a lot of us need to have,
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me too, I'm also guilty of this, is we need to not rush.
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Don't feel like the progress needs to be fast because it almost never feels like it's fast,
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especially once you reach an intermediate level.
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The progress usually seems very slow after that,
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but it's happening as long as you continue on with your practice, okay?
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So once again, Don't rush.
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Just trust that you're improving.
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You can maybe dedicate more time to your English learning.
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That would be great.
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And challenge yourself more.
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Use content that's harder for you, for sure.
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Do those things, but don't expect to see progress really, really fast, okay?
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Do those things, challenge yourself, dedicate more time if you have it,
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but just be patient with this process, okay?
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So that's it for today.
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I hope that you enjoyed this episode and I hope
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that you're ready for this new year and you have a good mindset to start this year.
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and remember that if you want my help understanding native speakers when they speak fast, if you want my training,
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then make sure to sign up for my membership so you can get my listening practice seminars.
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And if you become a family member, you'll also get my advanced podcast episodes where I speak fast.
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And if you want to challenge yourself and start to listen to real conversations between native speakers in English,
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then join my U.S.
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Conversations podcast, and you'll also get the transcript for each conversation with the definitions of key words and phrases that we use.
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So the link is down below.
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That's patreon.com slash U.S.
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Conversations.
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And if you like this podcast, please share it with your friends and family members and give it a five-star rating and write a review.
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All right, thank you for listening to this episode, and I'll talk to you on the next episode of Listening Time.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B1 usa o vídeo “English Listening Podcast - New Year, New Mindset”. As palavras que mais se repetem: mindset, gift, listening, appreciate. Este vídeo tem 269 frases e 3148 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 27:36. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 114 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. 88% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é fácil de acompanhar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
mindset substantivo/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentalidade
podcast substantivo/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast
thankful adjetivo/ˈθæŋkfəl/grato, agradecido
cheesy adjetivo/ˈt͡ʃiːzi/caseoso
tendency substantivo/ˈtɛn.dən.si/tendência
gratification substantivo/ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/gratificação
dedicate verbo/ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/dedicar
gratitude substantivo/ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/gratidão
consequence substantivo/ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/consequência, resultado
rat substantivo/ɹæt/ratazana, rato
complain verbo/kəmˈpleɪn/reclamar, queixar-se
encounter verbo/ɪnˈkaʊntɚ/encontrar, deparar-se com
phrase substantivo/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/expressão, frase
trap substantivo/tɹæp/armadilha, arapuca
envision verbo/ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/visualizar

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraSignificado
go down verbodescer

Frases que vale a pena repetir

Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:

  • I'm recording this very early.
  • All right, let's get started.
  • I'm not saying that I don't want to think about the future?
  • What can I gain from this experience?
  • How can I become a better person from this?

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

EstruturaNo vídeo
Frases condicionais if + oração, will/would + verbo — uma condição e seu resultadoif you become a family member, you'll also
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazis released · have been given · being exposed
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agorahave been given · I've talked · haven't even appreciated
Possibilidade com “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo possível, mas não certomight also benefit · might seem · might also have

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 105 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you're, don't, I'm. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “th”: thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, inauthentic /ˌɪnɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, envision /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: gratification /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, inauthentic /ˌɪnɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: mindset /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/, dedicate /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, rat /ɹæt/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Faça shadowing frase por frase na velocidade normal, repetindo cada uma até o seu ritmo ficar igual ao do falante.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como mindset, podcast, thankful.

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Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.

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