[Music] if you watch this lesson until the end you learn what is the number one reason why some people have succeeded learning English but you haven't yet because maybe you have that one friend who puts as much effort as you do but they have succeeded and you haven't yet what's happening there and no matter how many times you try every year you start over every month you try a new method you can't seem to stay consistent and today I'm going to help you not just know the information of why but really change the way you
think about English because that's the only way you'll be successful and I'll give you some tips at the end so you can start taking action today okay so let me tell you right off the bat what is the number one reason why successful people will succeed that is they have a strong need to learn English now I just said the expression right off the bat which means instantly immediately at the very beginning so right off the bat here that's the reason now if you feel that you do you have a strong need but you're not
making progress let me tell you that you don't have a strong need it's not strong enough I've had students in the past who did have that you know strong purpose and that motivated them and that pushed them to achieve their goals because if they didn't they would lose money they would waste time for example there was one guy who applied for a master's degree you know to study uh in France and they had he had to uh not only take an exam but there would be a conversation exam you know an oral test and it'd
have to speak with this person with the teacher for 10 15 minutes now in order to achieve that we had conversation classes and that pushed him forward to the point that he was really fluent by the end of our little program and he would use his English there you know so he knew that it was not only important for the tests but in order to for him to live his English at College there in France this is why we say on this podcast that you need to use your English as a doorway to the life
of your dreams it's not just you know a motto like a thing we say like a slogan this is essential if you don't do that you don't succeed same thing happened with me I've shared in previous lessons that I had a dream to study in Vancouver Canada to go to college in Canada in order to do that which I didn't ultimately do I actually went to Seattle which is closed it's a city in the United States to work there um but he was close enough you know I was happy with it and what pushed me
to get there was exactly the goal you know and then the goal created all this lifestyle for me that I was suddenly living my English we call that lifestyle English it's like doing the things that you would do in your own native language but doing those things in English so I mentioned that one students that I had who went to France but I've had other students too and in fact like all of the ones that were successful had that strong purpose so this other guy wanted to become a pilot like an airplane pilot and they
need to learn English right because they speak English you've probably heard that uh when you're on a plane good afternoon this is your captain speaking with just a little flight information and he did it so same thing it pushed him to get there so the first thing that ask you to reflect on is what is your dream really and don't just say like to get a new job although that is a very nice start um um but think what is behind that dream as well because that will really ground it and really give it more
Roots think about it right now what is your dream that is related to English and how can you pursue it because it's not just about pursuing English learning it's pursuing the dream which makes you just commit more so in my own example that I wanted to go to college in in Canada it was not just learning English so I can do that I committed by going to college fairs here in my city Exchange program uh conventions they if you look you know if this is something that interests you go and look I bet that close
to you maybe not in your city but in a neighbor City there's probably something like that happening once or twice a year and you go there and you get to speak English with people get to see the options you know how much it costs don't think that your dreams are too far away that is something that I I just like dove into the process of achieving my goals by not bothering whether or not they were impossible I just wanted to know if they were at all possible and how much it would cost what you would
take for me to get there I discovered for some of those dreams that yeah they were practically impossible you know they would cost like almost like millions of uh ha which is the currency in Brazil which is ridiculous right but at least that gave me the awareness so I could look for the actual viable options the word viable means possible Right like the possible options so there's a quote that I just think is perfect for this that is a strong why can bear almost anyhow have you heard that before the word bear in his quote
by the way is not the animal it's to support like to endure to put up with it's the same thing like put up with to support to be able to go through something so if you have a strong enough y it'll be able to support you through any process any how that's the word how is related to process in this case and by the way I've been using some Expressions here like right off the bat right to bear to put up with and all of these are Advanced expressions and I'm going to use more in
this lesson because I'm feeling really loose right this is a solo lesson my second so lesson on this podcast and uh I may not explain all of them so if you don't want to get lost when I use these expressions and if you also want to integrate them into your own vocabulary so you can speak like this like I'm doing right now now great way for you to do that is on a real life app where you can watch these lessons and practice with all this vocabulary with our own flashcards I'm going to leave the
link in the description below so you can continue watching it from there right now just click or you can search for real life English on your favorite app store so I'll see you there okay so now that you know what is this number one reason as I'm calling it let's understand why that's the case because I'm not just saying this today like ah this is the number one reason and in tomorrow I'll say there's another number one reason I don't do that I'm pretty consistent with my beliefs and I'm telling you if you focus on
this you'll succeed so there is a a little bit of a story that I came up with that I created that I think helps making this point so imagine this situation somebody forces you to walk 20 km today they say you're going to walk 20 km or I'll hurt you you know um and they force you to do that you're going to be feeling maybe a little bit miserable maybe uh you know by the end of that very long walk you're going to be super tired and just uh not feeling very good but if you
travel to your favorite place on Earth you know as a tourist and then you do a walking tour that you end up walking 20 km total you know you look at your smart watch at the end like wow 20 kilomet in that situation you wouldn't be feeling miserable at all right you'd be feeling great you'd be feeling like tired maybe but that it was worth it now the reason why these two situations s the effort was the same but the the outcome was different was just because of meaning I believe that as human beings one
of the biggest things that we need to keep track of is meaning you know how we are attached or assigning meaning to things and how much we are pursuing the things that are meaningful to us because that's I believe that's where happiness lies that's where happiness is is within the things that have more meaning to us there's another piece of scientific fact that I think supports this that is if you try to teach children something that they don't know why they're learning that like math in school if they don't know why that's important they're going
to struggle you know and there's research backing this up supporting this showing why it's true and that happens to us all not just children to adults as well if we don't dig deep on why that's important for us ultimately we may not do it at all and that's why the real life way or method for teaching focuses a lot on practical use of the language instead of just like theoretical another way to illustrate this that I think is just perfect is the following little story imagine you're at college and you need to learn how to
use certain tools you need to learn about tools like a screwdriver or a wrench for fixing objects like mechanical stuff now what is the best way to learn about that would it be by taking a course on each tool it sounds like it'd be like that right like people take courses on stuff like we have there's English courses uh music courses right on any topic you'd like but I'm going to tell you that is actually not the best way and it's not even the way that we naturally learn the best way would be for example
if I invited you to fix a car engine and in the process of fixing that engine we would be using the tools and I'd be telling you hey grab this tool and do this with it and then we start fixing it with those tools and by the end of it we would have learned one application at least for each one of those tools now you're not going to have learned all the applications but that one application would be so deeply engraved in your mind like you you just have internalized the use of that completely that
your knowledge would have become wisdom I I like to think as um knowledge as difference between knowledge and wisdom as like wisdom is when you have the capacity to use it to do something productive something good to you with that knowledge that piece of knowledge otherwise it just becomes information right and this is why there's another quote that just fascinates me how it uh makes you change the way you view learning English or learning anything that here's a quote education is not the feeling of a pale but the lighting of a fire a pale is
like a bucket right like a bucket that you can fill with water so education that is learning is not filling a bucket with water with with information with just knowledge education is the lighting of a fire now what does that mean if you think about the the symbolic representation of that like fire transforms right like water accumulates accumulating information doesn't do much you know because it'll just be more of the same and um it will not transform now fire does transform and the approach to learning that I just shared you know about the car engine
and learning why something matters and learning how to use it is what I'm talking about here because it's the understanding of the purpose behind the knowledge that will help you feel motivated to apply that knowledge in meaningful ways now to close the lesson I'm going to give you some practical tips on how to apply these ideas how to seek real opportunities in your life to pursue your dreams dreams related to English learning so first of all there's my own story I wanted to study somewhere else in another country and what I did was looking for
opportunities in my own City that I could connect with his institutions uh outside a lot of these activities a lot of these tasks these actions didn't involve English necessarily I was not speaking English all the time but I was just getting more and more committed more and more involved and it was just taking over my mind right and my my thoughts my dreams so when I would arrive home i' would be just so in the mood of watching the TV series because I was already within that whole vibe that whole movement of uh learning English
so I could live that reality now let's say you want to get a job where you're going to be using your English what could you do maybe you could update your LinkedIn profile today if it's not yet to English and write a summary of yourself like a your profile summary in English as well so you can learn how to speak about yourself in English or you can start reading a book in your field in English that's also going to be really helpful for you in your job interviews because all that knowledge will may come up
or let's say your dream is something a little bit more casual you just want to travel what could you do well start planning your trip have you started doing that yet you know maybe use chat P to play your trip know where you want to go what places you want to visit and just by again getting more and more committed around all these things you're going to feel that pressure like wait I'm committing I'm setting a deadline I'm setting a date maybe I'm buying ready to flight flight ticket that's that's amazing if you do that
you're going to feel all that pressure you're going to be really lighting that fire under you so you're going to start moving so what else like maybe you want to start watching different videos of people who have gone to that place you want to go to this is all really productive and let me remind you this is all related to that number one reason why the people who succeed do in fact succeed because at the end of the day what's really important is to find a way to make it happen now you may have noticed
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exactly what I did to start understanding natives when they speak fast in movies and TV series Without subtitles now as you know I'm not a native English speaker I've been through this process just like you and today we're going to get really practical we're going to get really handson with some of the material that I brought Hands-On is like exactly that like practical not theoretical with active participation so I'm going to invite you guys to join me in analyzing some of my favorite movies and series
