Get Fluent Your Way - How to Speak English Fluently - Advanced English Listening Practice - 78

I they're I'm Drew Badger, the world's

number one english fluency guide and it

is a pleasure to welcome you to another

advanced listening practice lesson

welcome to the program

well today we're going to get into what

should we talk about today i want to

talk about doing it your way

so doing something your way and this

just means that when you learn something

from someone else like you're learning

from me or you see other people doing

something that doesn't mean you have to

do it that way now this is a really

interesting idea because a lot of people

think that you know they're kind of

looking for a particular person to learn

from like you're looking for guidance

and how to improve your English and

that's why you're watching this video

but at the same time it's important to

remember that you don't want to only

listen to me or listen to other people

for whatever it is you're learning you

want to think for yourself and decide if

a program or maybe some pieces of

something you might disagree with and

maybe you want to create your own thing

so as an example just even me thinking

about teaching and how I help people

learn like I do through the videos that

I produce here on youtube I don't have a

particular i guess i don't have an

actual like teaching degree so I didn't

go to school to get a masters I have a

bachelors in philosophy and that's why i

like to think about interesting things

that gets me excited and trained me to

think so it doesn't necessarily give me

a piece of paper that says I know how to

teach but I think I do a pretty good job

of that

anyway when I was thinking about how do

i help people learn better there's the

way of helping people learn the

traditional way or if I think that maybe

that doesn't work so well and I didn't

think it works so well mark didn't think

it works so well I don't think it works

so well anyway it's still lots of people

maybe 99% of the planet is still

learning that way so I still have a lot

of work to do to to change people to

stop learning in the traditional way and

get them starting to think about

language in a different way and practice

in a different way as well but when I

was thinking about what's the best way

to help people learn i had two options i

could do what other people were doing

because that's what the majority of

people are doing or do my own thing to

go my way

now when you do things your own way or

you do it how you want to do it this is

where you really open your mind up and

you take responsibility for what you

want to do now in the case of learning

languages maybe you have to think about

I'm trying to learn something and it

comes to me from a particular person

like you're learning something for me or

for someone someone else or a book but

then you take that opportunity to judge

whether that information is actually

helping you

so it's a beneficial thing or if it's

not a beneficial thing and if it is

helping you fantastic you can continue

using it but if it's not then try to

figure out a different way to do

something

here's another case so in addition to me

just creating a completely different way

of doing something I'm going my own way

I'm thinking about doing something my

way I did the same thing with exercising

so I have two not-so-great knees they

have like they make like a crackling

sound like when I bend them and I played

baseball for many years and soccer as

well and i still play a little bit of

basketball but i haven't done that in

many months because I'm just trying to

restrain thin my knees and hopefully I

can but I tried lots of different

approaches for doing that until like I

was like okay let me just think about

what would be the easiest way to do that

I so I think about what are the specific

goals that I have which is strengthening

my knee and one of those things that I I

can't do is try to put too much pressure

on my legs at the same time when i'm

doing it so i decided to start training

in a pool and I don't have a person a

particular trainer I don't have somebody

that I go to meet i just think about

what are the muscle groups i want to

learn maybe I go to youtube and look up

a particular video about that but really

I'm kind of creating my own exercise

program that's helping me strength in my

legs inside a pool and i use what I have

which is like the local pool which is

it's pretty small

there are a bunch of like older people

in the pool and it's difficult for me to

get in there and try to swim a lot but

they do have a shallow area where I can

walk around and do some leg training and

some other things like that but the

point is I'm not either waiting for

someone to tell me what to do or only

doing what someone else is telling me to

do so in both of those cases i'm kind of

stopping myself from thinking about

what's the best way to do something

and I don't want to just create a new

method for no reason but if I don't find

something that's really helpful than

that's my chance in my opportunity to

find something that maybe i should

create myself to design my own program

so I'm designing my own way of creating

these lessons here for you

nobody told me to create lessons like

this that talk about life and psychology

and things like that that help people

improve their English so I try to give

two lessons at the same time one is a

lesson about life that really anybody

could apply in any situation and the

other is the vocabulary that i'm using

and the way I'm speaking so in that same

way I don't want you to think about like

you only have to learn what I'm telling

you to lerner that somebody else is

telling you to learn try to listen to

what you're you're you're receiving from

books or videos or other things like

that and then take that information and

apply it in your life and figure out if

it's actually helpful or not if it is

continue doing it if not go your own way

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