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you know if you talk to anyone who you

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consider successful I can guarantee you

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that they are consistently growing their

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mind so in that Spirit today we'll look

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at four books for real life fluency now

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these are the kind of books that Natives

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and advanced speakers actually read and

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each one of the four that we'll look at

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today has in some way changed my life

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and I highly recommend them to my

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friends and co-workers so it just makes

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sense that I would also share them with

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you so you can be successful as an

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English learner and also as a human

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being

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so your mind is for having ideas not

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holding them so there is a time in my

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life where I had way too much to do not

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enough time does this sounded all

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familiar to you so many of us are in

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this state right and this book was just

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phenomenal in helping me to get my [ __ ]

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together now what this means is that it

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helped me to take my problems my

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disorganization everything that was

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jumbling around in my head and to put it

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in order it would be an understatement

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to say that I've become so much more

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productive since I read this book and

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actually put its learning into place so

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getting things done helps us to build a

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trustworthy system and David Allen says

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that when we do this we basically are

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able to achieve a state that he calls

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mind like water now what this means is

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that you know instead of having all of

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these things responsibilities ideas

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jumbling around our head we're able to

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put them somewhere else so they're not

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bothering us which makes us to be in a

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state of much more Tranquility so this

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could be anything from having to do two

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different projects at work having

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deadlines and everything like that to

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something simple like not forgetting to

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buy cat food so that your cat doesn't

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this is also known as building yourself

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a second brain because like the quote

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that we saw at the beginning our brain

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you know while it's really great at

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being creative at creating ideas at

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coming up with Solutions it's not so

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great at recalling all the information

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that we need when we need it so by

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building the second brain things are

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there when you need them you don't have

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to worry about them they're not taking

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up space in your consciousness

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So today we're talking about books right

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so one small example of this is you

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could create a capture list for books

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that you might want to read someday that

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way anytime a friend or you're listening

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to a podcast and a book recommendation

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comes up you can put it there and maybe

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you won't ever read it but it's there if

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you want it someday by the way notion is

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a fantastic tool for getting things done

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so if you'd like me to make a video

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about how I personally use notion to be

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more productive then let me know by

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commenting down below

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so in this immensely popular book David

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Allen goes all through everything that

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we need to do to build our second brain

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system to achieve that mind-like water

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state so I highly recommend that you

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pick up this book and give it a read I'm

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sure that it will be a hugely uh

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impactful moment in your life just like

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it's been for me and speaking of more

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clarity on actions so at real life

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English we believe that a core principle

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to being successful at getting confident

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fluent English is by making it a fun

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natural convenient everyday habit now

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here on this channel every single week

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we make it fun natural and convenient

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for you to do this so if you haven't

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already definitely hit that subscribe

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button so you don't miss a single new

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lesson and James clear's best-selling

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book Atomic habits gives you the

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Practical advice that you need to make

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it every day

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so take just a moment to think about a

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goal that you've had but you fail that

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it could be something related to going

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to the gym maybe starting a diet maybe

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learning to play a new inch from it or

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something related to your English

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learning

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do you have that thing in mind

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why was it that you failed

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now for a lot of this this happens at

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the beginning of the year right we have

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all these great intentions to redefine

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ourselves in the new year but we fail at

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most of them James Clear says that one

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of the primary reasons has happened is

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because we're valuing Perfection over

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progress

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more important than making huge changes

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like being able to run a 10K or half

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marathon is making sure that you learn

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to show up every single day even if it's

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just throwing on your running shoes and

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going for a jog around the block I

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really love this quote from him

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everyone is consumed by the end goal but

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one push-up is better than not

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exercising one minute of guitar practice

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is better than none at all one minute of

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reading is better than never picking up

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a book it's better to do less than you

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hoped than to do nothing at all

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so if you're at all like me you probably

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at some point to fall into this trap

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that if I can't do it perfectly I'm just

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not going to do it at all but just

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showing off is already a huge

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accomplishment when you're going through

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the difficult process of trying to

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develop a new habit once you've actually

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made it every day something that you

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always show up to then you can actually

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focus on optimizing it throughout this

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book James Clear talks about how those

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small incremental changes over time do

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lead to tremendous changes you know over

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the months and years if you're actually

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showing up every day at something that

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you're wanting to achieve you can become

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a completely different person

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so for example if you're not currently

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studying English every day imagine how

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big of a difference it can make if you

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started learning just one new word every

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single day now that seems small but over

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the course of a year that would be 365

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new words that you would know that you

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don't know right now and this habit

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could be super simple maybe you just set

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a five minute timer and then you get a

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news article or a book and you skim

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through until you find a new word and

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then once you found it you just note it

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down with its definition

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so if you want to learn a bit more then

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check out this lesson that we made on

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another gem from James clear's book

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about why systems are so much more

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powerful than goals you know I've

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noticed when learning a language that

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reading is without a doubt the easiest

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of the four core skills which are

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reading writing speaking and listening

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do you find the same is true for you

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speaking on the other hand it tends to

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be the most difficult right there's just

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so many opportunities that we get to

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read but opportunities to actually speak

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and use the language are much rare now

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here at real life English we were just

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unsatisfied with any of the existing

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Solutions helping English Learners to

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start speaking more most of them are

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very expensive they're inconvenient and

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they're teacher-centered that's why we

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decided to solve this problem ourselves

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with the real life app now unlike other

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Solutions out there it's free you can

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practice anytime anywhere by just

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pressing a button and you'll connect

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with English speakers like you from all

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around the world also discover other

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cultures

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so why not give it a try you can

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download for free right now by searching

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for real life English in your favorite

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app store or click up here or in the

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description down below and my challenge

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for you is that after you finish this

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lesson you go to the app and have a

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conversation with someone about some of

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your favorite books so I'll give you an

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idea of how you could kind of start that

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conversation out so you could say I just

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watched this video about life-changing

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books a book that was really impactful

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on me was blah blah blah and that's

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because blah blah blah how about you

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what's your favorite book

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you know nowadays most people feel like

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everything that they want to do now one

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time more efficiently that's why the

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next two books we'll look at will help

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you to become more focused and energetic

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in your English learning and anything

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else you want to accomplish

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so Chris Bailey makes it more practical

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and simple for us to become more focused

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and creative in an distracted world in

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his book hyper focus and the great thing

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about this book is that it'll help you

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to better execute on the habits and

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first two books we looked at

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so have you ever had the experience that

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you sit down to study or to work and you

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don't get very far before your phone

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buzzes and you're distracted by WhatsApp

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your Instagram or maybe you go to pet

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your dog or your cat or something like

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that so Bailey has a solution one of my

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favorite ideas from this book he calls

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intention before attention now what this

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work or to study something we just sit

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down and we kind of do whatever comes at

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us now he says that if we set an

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intention beforehand then we'll actually

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be able to focus more successfully it's

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about being more deliberate about what

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you want to get done be it during a

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study session or at work so here's how

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it could look for example you could set

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yourself a timer and if you don't have

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that Shopper Focus yet then you might

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want to keep it short maybe just 15 20

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singular intention during that time that

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you want to accomplish now you're just

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going to focus working on that one thing

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it's really helpful to turn off any

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distraction so turn off any you know

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messages any notifications things like

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that you could even put your phone in

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airplane mode or if you get really

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distracted by it even put it in another

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room so it can't possibly distract you

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and then when your timer goes off if

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you're in the zone you can of course

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keep going but if not then it's great to

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stop and take a break to kind of refresh

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your brain so maybe you can go grab a

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glass of water you could look out the

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window maybe have a conversation with

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someone or something like that and then

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come back and start again set a new

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intention and set another timer and

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you'll find that by doing this

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throughout the day you're going to

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accomplish so much more by the end I

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remember the capture list that we looked

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at and getting things done well this

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goes perfect hand in hand with Hyper

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Focus because say that you're doing a

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work session like that for 20 minutes

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and an idea pops up or you remember you

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know that you have to buy cat food or

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something like that you just take note

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we looked more at some tips from hyper

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Focus recently in this lesson and of

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course by picking up Bailey's book

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you're going to learn so much more about

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how to live a more purposeful life how

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to be focused and how to be more

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creative in your work however even if

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you perfectly use all of these

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productivity tricks you might still have

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trouble focusing and that's because you

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might still be lacking one simple

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essential ingredient sleep

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so long before covid-19 there been an

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epidemic growing throughout most

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Societies in the world the World Health

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a global epidemic now what exactly does

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enough sleep mean of course it depends

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on the individual you might think that

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you're someone who can get by on six

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for most people the average amount of

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sleep that is enough sleep is seven to

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nine hours you've probably heard before

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that you know you need on average eight

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hours of sleep a night for me personally

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after reading this book I realize that

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I'm actually more in the category that

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night and in our societies people are

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become accustomed being tired they don't

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even remember what being well rested

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feels like they don't realize what a

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huge impact it has on their productivity

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their mood and their motivation and so

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much more the old Axiom of I'll sleep

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when I'm dead is quickly being debunked

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now everyone knows you probably have

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already heard millions of times that

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having a good diet and exercising are

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both really crucial to living a healthy

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life right well sleep is even more

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important of course you need to take

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care of those two things but if you

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aren't taking care of your sleep those

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two things can't make a for it they

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won't save you and it may seem

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counterintuitive but you can actually

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sleep your way to English fluency but

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more on that in a moment reading this

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book completely changed my relationship

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with sleep which has certainly changed

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my life studies show that sleep is just

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so essential to living a great or even

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just a good life so since I've read this

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I've become much more religious about

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protecting my sleep so what this means

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for me is making sure that I have a

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bedtime so I have you know pretty much a

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window of time that every night I try to

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be in bed by that time and not

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sacrificing going to bed like going to

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bed later because I want to watch

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another episode of a series no one way

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I've heard to think about this that's

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really interesting is by having goals in

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your life having a purpose to your life

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because you know when you are trying to

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make that decision about should I go to

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bed or should I watch another episode

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you know you're going to feel better if

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you go to bed early right and that's

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going to help you to be more able to

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achieve your purpose or your goals in

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life so that's why knowing your personal

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why is just so important

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for myself is important so for example

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most of us we have a time that we start

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work by but it's also really important

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to have a time that you cut off work you

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know that you are disconnecting from

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your computer your devices because all

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of that screen light really affects your

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quality of sleep another thing that can

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really affect quality of sleep is

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digestion so in Barcelona there's a

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culture of eating really late and I used

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to eat a lot later but since I've read

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this and I've become more focused on

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improving my sleep and improving how I

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feel I've been trying to eat dinner like

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schedule it in even as early as like 4

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pm because it gives me a lot of time to

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fully digest and everything and then

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when I go to sleep you know I'm able to

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rest so much more soundly I even ended

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up getting this Aura ring maybe you've

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seen it in some of the videos

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and I got these blue light blockers

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because the light that we see at night

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uh all around us you know in our house

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and everything it really again affects

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our body of sleep it affects our

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drowsiness plus they're just so cool

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now I mentioned sleeping your weight of

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fluency sleep is just so important for

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us language Learners because sleep is

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when our memories are formed

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so if you are like most Learners that

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you find it difficult to remember new

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vocabulary or remember grammar rules

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sleep might be a big part of the problem

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if you're not getting enough of it since

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Walker says practice doesn't make

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perfect practice plus a full night's

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sleep makes perfect and a great first

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step or you know even if you aren't

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thinking that you can read the whole

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book check out Matt Walker's Ted talk or

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check out an interview with him there's

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a lot of really great ones I really

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enjoyed the one with huberman so check

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out one of those we can link them in the

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description as well and in fact I said

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his four books but I'm just such an Avid

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Reader that I couldn't resist sharing

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another one with you so I thought it'd

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be nice first to end with a lighter book

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so Boyd vardy is this amazing

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Storyteller he is a Tracker and Wildlife

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guide from South Africa which is where

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my fellow fluency coach Cassie comes

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from and the reason I recommend this guy

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is because stories are just such a

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powerful resource for language learning

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they really hook us they make us want to

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not stop they make it easy they make it

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fun natural and convenient

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that's exactly why you know series of

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movies work so well for learning

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languages

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so in this book boy Compares his

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specialty which is animal tracking to

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philosophies of living a good life and

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he does this through the story of a

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track with his colleagues of a lion

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family in his native South Africa

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there's so many lessons in this book but

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one of the ones that most impacted me is

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how it's so important for us to break

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out of our status quo to stop letting

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life just happen to us and to

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proactively seize it to really go and

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discover what is our purpose what will

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we put here to do

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so a quote that I really love about this

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is that he says most of us have so much

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of the social conditioning of Modern

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Life that the track of the wild self has

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been lost

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we live with our attention directed

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outward we focus on the social cues of

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our culture we look to others to Define

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our path and value and purpose

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we lose ourselves in shoulds shoulds are

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full of traps traps lead by society and

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your limited rules for yourself so if

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you're feeling lost or you just need a

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good dose of motivation and down to

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earth wisdom then this is a great quick

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read by the way down to earth means that

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something is realistic practical and

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tangible and I want to leave you with

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one of my absolute favorite quotes from

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this book it's one that I've been

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repeating to myself a lot lately so he

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says track what makes you feel good and

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bring more of it into your life notice

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what makes you feel lousy and do less of

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it

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so those are the five books that we have

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I really just want to challenge you to

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pick up one of these books and to start

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reading it and let us know in the

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comments which of these books are you

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going to pick up and why and also check

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what other Learners had to say and if

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you enjoyed this lesson and you want

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more like it then you can let us and

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YouTube know by hitting that like button

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and you may feel just intimidated to

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read an advanced book like this

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nonfiction can be difficult right in

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English but don't let that stop you what

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you really need are the precious gems of

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information that they have inside that

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can help you to live your best life so

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you know read the translation if you

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need to you could even if you have the

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time read the translation read it in

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your native language and then read it

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again in English

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of course if you read them in English

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you kill two birds with one stone you're

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going to improve your English a lot and

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you'll also be getting some precious

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lessons that are going to help you to

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live an incredible life so that's all

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for today thanks so much for joining me

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yeah

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Renee shows us the vulnerability is

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actually courage now the courageous

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people the people who are willing to be

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vulnerable they show up they're in the

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arena they are willing to fail

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I have a vulnerability issue and you

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know and I know that vulnerability is

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kind of the core

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of Shame and fear and our struggle for

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worthiness but it appears that it's also

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the birthplace

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of joy of creativity

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a belonging of love

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now the reason that this book is on this

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list is because most English Learners

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feel shame when it comes to speaking

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English