do you feel like it's become impossible for you to improve your English because your life has just gotten too busy and then years come and go and you're still at the same level if so you'll want to stick around because by the end of this episode you have learned three lessons that'll help you finally start speaking English like this like I'm doing right now over the next 12 months even if you're really [Music] busy all right so today we're going to do something really special here uh Ethan and I have really looking forward to doing
this we have these three lessons that we'll discuss that are not some crazy ideas that we came up with these have been validated by Sciences have been proven by science and they work for any person really so we discovered that when we read the amazing book Atomic habits and that's what we're bringing to you today three lessons from Atomic habits each one revealing a groundbreaking idea that that you can Implement to become successful in a day and age of hust and bustle and Hyper productivity yeah really loved preparing for this episode is it because I
think it's perfect timing and we're recording this in January so we've already been thinking about our objectives things that we want to achieve in 2025 I'm sure for you guys watching this you've probably at least thought a little bit about some resolutions right and atomic habits is fantastic for this it's definitely one I like to come back to regularly because it really helps you to look at what are the strategies that are really going to help you to not just give up by mid-February on the things that you're wanting to achieve and then have a
mediocre year right so you can bulying some of these things maybe have the best year of your life so far and I wanted to point out some of the advanced vocabulary that you mentioned Izzy so you said um hustle and bustle what is hustle and bustle that's the agitation of modern day life right I think of with that the typical footage of New York City you know during rush hour where there's just like huge uh what's the word for that just like huge crowds of people crossing at the intersections and so on it's kind of
like you're trying to uh compete with everyone to get to work on time and you said hyper productivity so this it's an interesting prefix hyper what does it mean when you add hyper before another word it's like super but even more I would even say right even technically I think that's what it means hyper is more than super we often say that kids when they eat too much sugar they become hyperactive like they're jump up and down and they have all this energy and they're driving the parents crazy you also mentioned groundbreaking what does that
mean Izzy so that's when something is very new and it also it's also a big change from the way things are usually done and then finally there was an expression that you used day and age which we just mean to say like the modern day but I think it's nice because it has connected speech so this is how we cut and connect our words in American English and I think actually all English but with the word and often times native just reduce it to n so it's day and age day and age almost like it
was just one word right all right now if you guys listening and watching us right now on YouTube on any podcast platforms if you want to learn and remember forever some of these Expressions that we're using on this podcast we're going to use so many more of these because we this naturally comes up for us like we've learned how to speak fluently myself CIA who who are non Natives and Ethan who is a native speaker we use these Expressions naturally but if you want to actually internalize these and use them later in your own conversations
in English the best place where you can actually achieve that is on a real life app if you use a real life app you'll see that all these expressions are saved so you can practice them later and you get to practice with the lessons with chapters so for example in this lesson we have three smaller lessons right we have three chapters that we're going to do today and we can practice one by one so that's a more doable way for you especially if you don't have so much time right I would say too what a
great way we're talking about habits today right if you could create a habit where every day you're consuming one small chunk of an English lesson and studying a few pieces of vocabulary and adding them to your long-term memory it's like your English is going to be so much more phenomenal by the end of the year so yeah guys unlock this lesson for free by clicking the link in the description below you can unlock it on the app so you can get all these amazing resources or you can simply search for real life English on your
favorite app store but the link in the description will take you straight to this lesson over there all right Ethan let's jump into the first first lesson that is forget about setting goals focus on your lifestyle instead so this is one of my favorites that I try to remember every day so basically prevailing wisdom says that it's best to achieve what we want by setting goals right people just think I'm going to set a goal and that's what I'm going to drive me there but you know the thing is that never happens every year same
thing set a goal don't achieve it so what's happening there well the thing is that if you read the book and if you just think about it too goals are good for setting a Direction but they don't help you make progress what are good for making progress are systems or a lifestyle as I like to call it that's that's what's best for making progress right yeah for sure you said you mentioned that maybe you don't even achieve the goal but sometimes you do achieve the goal like uh example for me personally is I've ran several
half marathons but what always happened to me is I would do all the training so that's great I I had these systems you know for getting up to being able to run 21 km and so on and then I participate and I'd finish the race and everything but then inevitably the next week I would give up on those good habits I'd be like uh you know I want a break from running and so I would lose those good habits that built up and then eventually at some point I'd have to sign up for another half
marathon to kind of get the motivation to do it again but what would be better in that case I think is to uh reduce the scope so kind of like keeping the system but reducing the scope so what does that mean when I use scope in that way izy it's everything that you're trying to focus on so reduce the amount of things that you're focusing on a scope in more concrete ways like I think it's for example like a binoculars are scopes right so you're focusing on thing you're looking at one thing yeah and in
this case it's maybe the amount of kilometers that you're running so when you're training for a half marathon there's a lot of time that goes into to it you know it's maybe needing to run for an hour and a half when you're getting closer to the race to be able to do enough kilometers so that you're prepared on race day but it would have been better just to keep up that I already had the days that I was putting on my shoes getting out and going running you know I could have just done a lot
less kilometers and you know not spend so much time but still keeping the Habit so it would be more having that lifestyle and identity as someone who runs every day or a few times a week rather than just having that goal and then reaching it and then stopping those good habits and I think the same can happen with learning a language right is I think to when I studied uh I studied for the C1 for cut on it's kind of I had made these really good study habits that then once I did the exam I
kind of lost those and there's this expression that we use all the time that if you don't use it you lose it so it's like maybe you have this objective for your English but it's not enough just to reach an objective of getting to a certain level getting to fluency whatever the case is because even if you get there are the work's not done you need to learn your entire life really you need to be a lifelong learner it's like your case right izy sometimes we're we're talking and maybe still there's an expression that you
haven't heard of before that might come up and you you'd be adding that or even for um even for a native speaker you know sometimes you you come across a new word or expression and this points to a problem uh that you have when you focus too much on your goals and there are other problems too but this one I like to call the yo-yo effect right cuz like you go up and down like you go and then you come back right to where you were now there's other problems too you know if you think
about it just focusing on the goals not that goals are bad because you need goals to set a direction I said that without the goal you don't have a Direction you don't have maybe the inspiration or the vision but in actually but in order to actually do it to make progress you need a system so the other problem that I think you may have when you're just too focused on goals is that everybody may have the same goal you know make Maybe let's say for example that you're taking a test uh to apply for a
job right so everybody who's applying for the job they have the same goal so if they just think you know just focus on the goal that's not going to help them because only one person or a handful of people will get the job so what will differentiate the people who get the job in the people who don't are different things what are these things it's the lifestyle it's the goal it's the habits right they do every day what's is what's underneath the surface you know there's a tip of the iceberg and then what's underneath the
surface that not a lot of people see you know you see some somebody at the gym working out hard and you think oh I want to be like that person and you try and and copy their moves their movements and everything well that's not going to help because they have a whole lifestyle that actually supports that so go and look like maybe that person is going to bed at a certain time they're eating something specific uh they're meditating I don't know but look at the the habits that are more foundational so I think that's why
this is one of the pillars I'd say of achieving goals I think that's interesting what you say too cuz it makes me think about something I tried to remind myself of sometimes I'm in the gym and I see someone who has a body that I admire you know like the the place where they're at and sometimes that can be helpful to actually see like is it even the right objective for me like is having that that like muscular of a body the right objective for me because they're there when I arrive and they're there still
when I leave that means they're spending a lot more time at the gym than I am I don't want to spend that much time at the gym like I kind of go for more you know functional to be in shape and everything but I don't want to spend half my day at the gym so I think it's important to know like okay is that even the right objective for me is that really what I desire am I willing to put in the hard work to get there and the answer might be no and that's okay
and it just helps you to coming back to this word it helps you to like lessen the scope to something that fits more with your life and you know what you ultimately want and are willing to do to achieve it just to give you guys an next action for each one of these lessons we're going to give you something to think about to do next uh and actually Implement these so choose a goal do pick a goal but then stop right there and reflect what are the daily actions that I need to build as habits
to create this lifestyle so to show that real quick I just wanted to do a challenge with you Ethan to demonstrate you know how to do this um I want to give you a goal you know that people normally set and I want you to give us the some habits maybe just one habit that would be a nice way to create that lifestyle that would help them achieve that goal so let me give one example first uh imagine that you are a coach of a soccer team so the goal for that coach or all coaches
would be to win the championship right that's whole team's goal focusing on the goal there is not going to help what would be a lifestyle that would help how about sleeping early going to bed early getting up early practicing every day early as well these may be if you look at the best teams these may be the practices you know that they apply and recruiting players every week you know so MH it's just one example now let me give you one goal and you give me one example of a lifestyle losing 10 kilograms so I
think that the most typical thing people think when they're like oh I want to lose weight is signing up for a gym but I think that that's for a lot of people it's going to be the typical thing that they get their membership and then they give up on so I think an even better thing is to get in the habit of tracking calories so you actually know how much you're eating and when you do this you can actually go a bit deeper there's there's calorie calculators online so you can see okay with my current
weight my body type how much do I need to eat to lose weight but yeah it's just this habit of using a calorie tracker like my fitness pal nice so yeah in terms of Lifestyle I think that is thinking I'm the kind of person who tracks calories tracks all my calories just thinking like I am that kind of person that mindset will lead you to achieving that goal how about this this goal here uh get a new job what would you do what's one habit one thing that you would do or one could do obviously
it depends so much on the job but the first thing that occurs to me is something related to learning so maybe it's reading every day and I think for we'll talk more about this right but I think for a lot of people it's they think it's really difficult to read a whole book but I think the important thing is more that you're doing just a little bit every day so even if it's just like five minutes you're reading five minutes every day you're learning something new you're Gathering some new skills and ultimately it's going to
make you a candidate who stands out more yeah choose a great book right in your area and I think by reading it every day it'll make a tremendous impact in your next job interview believe it or not like it's just yeah crazy and there's what you said before it's having a small habit like that where you're reading every day then you start seeing yourself as a reader right and then over time maybe you'll you'll get more interested in that you'll expand it and you'll be reading more than 5 minutes all right so final goal watch
movies in English without subtitles so you can understand them like 100% what can you do that's your goal I think watching a learning isual TV lesson every single day that'll help you to get to the point where you can understand without subtitles not to toot our own horn exactly I mean I I'm saying exactly because if you do that then you're going to learn vocabulary right you're going to learn corrected speech with charge foundation for understanding natives without subtitles not kidding like I'm not biased here all of these thoughts about being the kind of person
I am the kind of person who does this I'm the kind of person who does that is really great and that leads us to lesson number two which is this is a quote from the book just like the previous one the first one was forget about setting goals focus on your systems instead I said lifestyle but the the quote is focusing your systems instead lesson number two is every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become so what's really great about this one is that it reveals how to
build habits that stick you know because we just talk about the importance of building habits but how do you do that well research says from the book that you need to focus on creating a new identity first because your behaviors they come from your beliefs your sense of identity now to change your behaviors how do you do that right because you have your beliefs about who you are but if that stops you from building habits that begs the question how can you change your identity I wanted to comment first you said habits that stick this
is a really nice collocation what do we mean when we say stick in this kind of context so there's the literal meaning of stick or sticky if you throw something on the wall and it sticks it's going to be on the wall it's not going to fall down right uh there's even the expression to throw spaghetti on the wall no is that it to thr yeah is that it what does that mean by the way I think it's like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks I think it's it's uh like when you're
just trying different things without any sort of strategy or process just to see what might work but it's not so such an effective strategy the story behind that expression is actually that that's how they say that you should uh check if spaghetti is done so you throw it at the wall if it doesn't stick it's not done yet when as soon as it like sticks to the wall then it's done very nice way of testing it so figuratively it's just that like it's when something uh it's when you start doing something and it stays with
you you keep doing it it sticks right it's like when you study the vocabulary flash cards and the real life English app for these lessons the vocabulary is actually going to stick you're not going to forget it anyway so all this explanation of how to build new habits that got to change your identity I said that begs the question how do you do that how do you change your identity so we touched on this right a little bit before that if you're reading for 5 minutes every day even though it's not very much you do
start seeing yourself as a reader um or for example if you are tracking your calories or you're having a healthy diet you start seeing yourself as someone who who cares about their nutrition or who cares about how much they eat and this is a lot more powerful than just having a goal of like I want to lose 10 pounds it's like no I'm I'm trying to I'm developing an identity as a healthy person and then starting to see yourself as okay I'm someone who eats healthy I'm someone who cares about their diet you're trying to
think what kind of person am I right and when you define that it becomes so much easier so lesson one and lesson two are deeply connected here um in this case the next action that I would give you guys and that I try to implement to is first decide the type of person who you want to be and second prove it to yourself with small actions just like you said right so the small actions are the key here because people again they try to optimize already for time you know and do things for 30 minutes
1 hour that's not going to help you start it but then as the quote says every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become it's not every big action it's every action M even if it's just one minute there's a very nice story from the book also that a guy tried to apply this in a really extreme way he decided to go to the gym and not work out and come back home for 30 days so by by the end of the month he had develop the habit of
going to the gym you know not even working out developed the Habit to go to the gym so once he was there well you know in the second month he was like I'm here already let me just do something right so then he started doing uh then he started working outs but again he didn't need to make that like a big thing so start small that is how you can that is how you can start to shape your identity because you think okay I really am the kind of person who does do that every day
it's not about how much time you spend on doing it yeah we did an episode not so long ago is where we shared you shared how you learned English right and I think that this was a big part of that uh the last couple years I've been focusing more on my Portuguese for example and I think that these kind of things are really important for me is the fact that I'm making Brazilian friends here we get together and I we speak Portuguese together um you know I listen to a lot of Brazilian music I watch
series I read Brazilian books and for learning a language it almost is like I'm cultivating a Brazilian part of my identity you know so I can see this version of myself that's like my Brazilian Ethan my Brazilian identity and I think that for learning any language so you guys learning English it's really important that you start kind of seeing that English or American like whatever that that sort of like English-speaking version of yourself right very very good point yeah because that's that's the thing we're talking about behavioral psychology here and how that's important for you
to learn English you become more aware of how your mind works how you work that your habits will influence your identity and then your identities will influence your habit back but you got to start somewhere right start with what's more actionable start with the habits make them small and what you're saying makes a lot of sense because when I when I started learning English I was all about like I want to be the kind of person who lives and breathes English you know and that let me here but I wasn't thinking I want to be
fluent it it was just about getting really immersed in it I was more concerned with am I getting immersed immersed in it maybe not even concerned but I was more inspired by that idea and I think that's the difference between someone who's a successful English speaker and an English learner a successful person we were talking about systems right like they're more focused just on English is a part of my life it's not really something I think about it's just something that I do because I have all these things that I enjoy uh I have my
English speaking friends I have maybe job like whatever it is for you in your case and then like the English learner is just so focused on I need to get fluent I need to study I need to learn grammar I need to pass this test so they're more focused on these different achievements that they believe is going to reflect that they have reached some level rather than just focusing on like okay let me immerse myself in the language all the time and then just as a consequence I'm going to get to that point where I'm
an English speaker mhm success as a byproduct right as a consequence totally what does it mean a byproduct of something yeah it's when you attempt to do something and you end up creating something else but not with the goal of creating that it happens a lot in cooking right like when you make pasta you end up having pasta water which a great which is a great ingredient for cooking as well I don't know if you know that we're talking a lot about pasta today but anyway uh lunch time yeah so for an next action how
can you implement this here's the two steps first decide the type of person who you want to be and second prove it to yourself with small wins so let me give you one example uh a few months ago I decided that I wanted to become a better teacher a a better presenter on this podcast and just in life so just having a goal wouldn't help and I wanted to have the sense of identity you know I want to be kind of person who can speak clearly not get lost in my own explanations and stuff so
what's the this small winds that I need here the habits that I need on a daily basis improv started doing more improv vlogging just talking to the camera listening to other podcasts that alone you know started to become a space what I was getting immersed in and then suddenly I you know I started to improve as a consequence so lifestyle amazing is so I'm looking forward to hear what is the third thing that people should focus on the third quote this one is you don't have to be the victim of your environment you can also
be the architect of it so people probably know what an architect is but when you use it in a sort of figurative sense what do you mean being an architect of your environment another word that comes to mind is be the designer of it you can design it you can create it be the creator of your environment the one the person who Define it exactly how it should be might also hear being the victim of your circumstances which means that there's two perspectives you can have you can either say something happens to you and you
can either say you can complain about it right you can say like why does this happen to me it's not fair these kind of things or you can be proactive and say okay this thing has happened what am I going to do about it what next actions can I take what can I learn from this uh how can I get support from others to overcome it right so I think that that's a really big thing is if you don't want to just be a victim and have this what we call victim mentality then you need
to shift your thinking to always looking for how can I use this or often times we talk about um there's really great book and notion that comes from stoic philosophy that the obstacle is the way so actually seeing challenges that come into in life uh are all are more like opportunities things that can teach you something and can help you to achieve and grow and being the architect of your environment is when it comes to talking about habits that we're talking about today your environment has such a huge effect so one thing that he talks
about a lot in this book is smokers for example a lot of people find that to be a really hard habit to kick when we say to kick a habit it means to stop a bad habit right and obviously your environment is going to affect you a lot if all of your friends are smokers and you're trying to quit and you're spending time with the same group of friends who all smoke it's going to make it really arduous really difficult to kick that habit so you might find if you can spend less time with those
friends I mean you don't need to completely alienate them but at least in this period that you're trying to quit you can spend less time with them and maybe you join a running club and you're hanging out with people who have a healthier lifestyle and you know eat well and don't smoke and so on and that's going to start comes back to the identity Factor as well right spending time in this new environment a community is a type of environment right is going to help you to develop this identity as I I'm not a smoker
I don't smoke and you know I take care of my body mhm that's amazing cuz like really we need willpower to walk the path right that we want to walk but we can design the path too like it doesn't have to be hard or so difficult design your path this reminds me of even another uh quote I don't know who said this but it's like life doesn't happen to you it happens for you uh or even maybe by you if you think about like you're the author of your life like it happens by you so
doesn't matter where you are right now start from where you are if you're trying to become fluent in English have that goal in mind IM get immersed in a lifestyle that actually is what we call lifestyle English right live and breathe English and design your path design your environment so that helps you for example so I can I try to get more focused at work by leaving my phone far from me and if you're noticing that you're trying to get more focused practice done you know on your computer or somewhere else and you're not being
able to because you're getting too distracted by your phone do the same you know get rid of the Q the thing that triggers you to get distracted we're going to talk about the behavioral psychology in this that is the Habit Loop so with any habit that you have bad habit or good habit the same four steps will happen first there will be the cue then the craving then the response and finally they'll reward so let me give you one example of how this happens with a bad habit of eating cookies say you get home from
work there's a jar of cookies on your table always get one and eat it it's a bad habit how do you stop it how do you use the science here of the Habit Loop to prevent that from happening well first think about it the jar of cookies on a table that's a queue that's creating that trigger for you you see it and you want a cookie right is another way of thinking about that mhm so you see it you want a cooking so you get the craving craving exactly that I'm using this example with food
because it's quite literal a craving is the uh feeling of wanting to eat something really bad right really wanting it so you get the craving when you get the craving what follows is the response you act right and finally the response will connect it to the reward you you get the taste of the cooking and be like ah this feels great Sugar Rush exactly which then connects us to the Q so the queue links you to the reward when you see the cookie on the table you immediately feel start to feel the reward already like
I want that reward you know so get rid of the queue it's that easy right at least when you're trying to stop uh bad habit like this which in this case you might do by putting the cookies on like a really high shelf or somewhere where you're not seeing it right not out on the counter exactly so that's what the Habit Loop is uh I think we can give a few more examples but going back to this idea of life doesn't happen to you it happens for you or by you there's an amazing clip uh
that Steve Jobs reveals one of his secrets of life I just think is fascinating and it helps you remember these ideas and it helps them stick with you so let's check it up when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much uh uh try to have nice family life have fun save a little money um but life that that's a very limited life life can be much
broader once you discover one simple fact and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use and the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will you know if you push in something will pop out the other side that you can you can change it you can mold it um that's maybe the most important thing is to shake off
this uh th this uh erroneous notion that life is is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it change it improve it make your mark upon it um once you learn that you'll never be the same again so easy that clip other than just being great advice it was absolutely packed with Advanced vocabulary I took note of at least nine Advanced terms that I think would be useful for most English Learners so you guys can learn all of those in the app but let's talk about a few of them that I
thought were interesting so talked about I think bashing up against life what does that mean if you bash up against something yeah to bash up against the walls right I think it even says like a so yeah so you can picture like fishing you can fish a fish right and when you gets on your boat it start to bash against the walls of the boat you know because you didn't grab it so it's just like hitting forcefully in this case the figurative walls of your life right so uh he what he was saying there is
like uh some people say try not to do that to you know to move too much to try to do too much to change your life too much because life is the way it is so his advice was don't follow that life can be different so he has he uses a lot of very nice Expressions to talk about how you can have an infl inuence over your life this is something we were talking about as well right is is being the architect of your life but he says that you can mold it what does it
mean to mold something so literally when you're cooking for example not pasta this time but uh a cookie maybe you have a mold right the object that's called a mold where you put the the batter in it the ingredient that is going to actually be the the cookie itself um and that's what a mold is and as a verb is to give something shape then I think you said something towards the end of there being a lot of erroneous Concepts or erroneous ideas that's a really nice Advanced term what does that mean ideas that are
considered wrong or you know that you view like this is this is not right it's not correct it's erroneous anyway so there were other Expressions that we're not going to explain right now because we need to move on but some really interesting ones like uh to poke life or something will pop out on the other side to make your mark upon something really nice storytelling there amazing and so how does this apply apply to learning English I think that we talked about for example a smoker should spend less time with their smoking friends that's if
you're trying to quit something but if you're trying to learn English for example and you don't have any friends or family members like no one around you speaks English I think it's you're you're kind of in an uphill battle that means that you're doing something that is unnecessarily challenging and that's why I think you kind of need to find your tribe of people who do that thing that you want to learn so who speak English or who are also learning English it doesn't need to be a native speaker it's extremely motivating just to have other
people who are going through the same difficult adventure of trying to learn English because you can you can practice together likea talked about even she's from not that big of a town right in Ukraine and they have an English speaking Club so maybe there's something like that and even if you're from a small town or there's no opportunities like this in your city look for opportunities online right so I think that you can be proactive there in shaping an environment either either in person or online that really helps you to flourish those skills that you're
trying to build for sure yeah like flourish it's a nice word uh what what do you mean by flourish this skills year something flourishes I think it comes from like a flower right it's like you know flowers if they're in a rich environment with good Soil and Water and so on they flourish they grow really healthily and so you can say that too that you know if you're in the right environment you're going to flourish like those skills that you're trying to build they're just going to come up in a really nice way and a
really productive way and that makes me think also of some other tips that I could give so for example uh we talked about developing small habits first small actions and um the idea of a habit stacking comes to mind this another concept from the book that reveals that the Habit Loop can work for you to create even other habits for example at the end of The Habit cycle when you finally finish doing something like breakfast you always have breakfast right how about at the end of it just for five minutes you practice it a bit
I already mentioned on the app on the real life app you have chapters now so these lessons even though they can get long but you can consume them by parts right five minutes at a time 10 minutes at a time and practice already vocabulary it's a great Habit to have and if you always do that after a certain activity that is already been implemented your life like breakfast like a meal it's going to be much easier for that to work as a queue for a new habit it's like finish breakfast it's practice time it's funny
you say that I actually have that one for myself but it's when I go to the gym I listen to podcasts usually in Portuguese so it's kind of like arrive at the gym that's the established habit right throw in my headphones put on a podcast in Portuguese so like it's something I was able to build on something that I was already doing I think another great example that he shares in the book is like if you're trying to get a running habit it's good to put out your running shoes at night so that you go
they're already ready for you to go in the morning you don't have that extra resistance on top of it it makes it easy right and this phrase make it easy it is one of the steps that he says referring to the Habit Loop that for each one of those steps you got to improve that somehow so with the first step if you want to create a good habit Q what do do if you want to create a good habit make it obvious as you said make it obvious but your shoe is right right there so
craving make it attractive right leave your shoes clean I guess you know and and Al and also maybe put your socks there you know that's that's attractive like you can easily do it for me I think it would be more like the to if you're going out in a run you have like that playlist you always listen to when you go out on a run you know because it's the one that gets you psyched up so it's you're looking forward to listen to that or even for me I don't really like going to the gym
but I do look forward to listening to a podcast in Portuguese so I think you example is better it's actually thing anyway so for the response step make it easy so in this case yeah reduce the scope run for 5 minutes that makes it easier for you and reward make it satisfying so these are all connected too because you said like if you listen to a podcast that makes it attractive but also satisfying but some people uh do Implement that good old tactic of eating something they enjoy a lot at the end that gives them
that sense of reward that works too but uh make sure that it is rewarding the habit they try to create I think a big thing too that you'll find that happens with learning a language is for example if you listen to this podcast and you're studying the vocabulary flash cards right what's going to feel really satisfying is later when you get into conversation it's like oh I got to use that new word that I just learned like I love that any time that happens that I learn a word in Portuguese and then there's opportunity to
use that in a conversation because it's like oh like I get to use this new word this new expression and this reminds me of a message that we received from one of our Learners from one of our students and users of the app that they're talking about English learning and vocabulary learning as something that is fundamental to them and they use the app to do that let's now do a shout out to this person uh called [Music] Jill all right so Jill says this app is really helpful to memorize new words expressions and idioms by
the method of flashcards it works I can use them if I have to wait at my hairdresser or my dentist or wherever I have time plus every single week There's an interesting topic the teachers encourage you to use your English without fear I've been excited to listen to the next podcast oh yeah Jill so what I really love there is it's a great representation of what we were talking about earlier about lifestyle too right so designing that lifestyle that you know when I have to do something boring like wait at the dentist I can study
my English and like suddenly it's something that becomes more satisfying for you right and the again the real life app helps you do that because you don't have to think like where I'm going to get my English where I'm going to get my English practice right so again the link is in the description if you guys want to try that out and you're going to go straight to this lesson by clicking it and you're going to practice all the amazing vocabulary that we used today all right Ethan this was amazing like I I already said
I love this book Atomic habits we keep talking about it maybe if you guys are fans if you've listened to us talk about it many times it's because it's so foundational for changing your life transforming I know you guys are here exactly for that right if you're here you're thinking my life is a certain way right now there's just status quo I want to change that just like Steve Jobs said I want to live a different life I want to improve it I want to get a new job as we say here I want to
use my English as a doorway to my greatest life so start here start with small habits right or Atomic habits that's called Atomic habits because it's literally like super micro habits right but also really powerful oh yeah and if you're enjoying these lessons a free way for you to support us is of course if you're on YouTube hitting that subscribe button and Bell down below and also the like button because this helps YouTube to know that you are getting a lot out of these lessons so it can recommend it to more Learners and that way
we can all have fun learning together likewise if you are listening to this on Spotify Apple podcast or any other streaming platform like that be sure to follow us so you don't miss any new lessons and give us a festar review for the same reason that other people can take their English to the next level with us and finally to get the absolutely best experience with these lessons be sure to download the real life English app for free bying the link down description below or searching for us in your favorite app store all right Ethan
thank you so much for joining me today and thank all of you guys who are watching and listening to us and as we always say on this podcast no matter what divides us that which unites us is far greater 1 2 3 a yeah have you ever been watching a movie in English with other people and suddenly a scene comes up and everyone is laughing and they are just pretending that you know you find it funny too but um deep down that you're just thinking like I don't get it that sucks right well that ends
today because Kia and I will help you finally be able to watch movies and Series in English without missing the jokes we reacted to some really hilarious clips and analyze what makes them funny and by the way that's when your mind would be like and you think now I get it
