Surround Yourself With Success - Speak English Fluently - Advanced English Listening Practice - 79

hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's

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is a pleasure to welcome you to another

advanced listening practice lesson well

I wanted to this is just kind of a quick

story i was mentioning about me training

in a pool

not that long ago in the series i think

in the previous video actually depending

on when i release these but anyway I was

talking about being in a pool and so

this is kind of a story lately that

happened to me but so I have a tattoo if

you didn't know that already you

probably didn't know that but it's on my

left shoulder

I guess maybe I can like put that in the

video somehow i don't know maybe I'll

like I don't you wanna see my tattoo

you'd be interested in that I don't know

it's a kind of difficult to show it i

guess but let me see if I can pull it up

over here

there you go so this is a tattoo you can

see I got kind of a bad son tan as well

but this is a $YEAR american cartoon

called Calvin and Hobbes and i've had it

since college and I'd represents like

trying to think of the best way to

express it it's like adventure basically

so always going out and trying new

things and seeing what happens

so this is just a tattoo and tattoos or

maybe not the the most popular thing

here in Japan their associated with the

Mafia so typically maybe for not so much

but if i'm going to a like a public bath

i usually have to put some kind of band

aid on my back and I went to like the

the pool that I go to do exercising near

my home I had forgotten recently to put

the band-aid on before i went there and

so I came and I said all like I have to

go back to my house to get the band-aid

and I told the lady that works there one

of them that you have a tattoo and

that's why I'm doing that so i speaking

kind of walking in and doing my regular

exercise routine in the pool and one of

the other staff members walked up to me

and she said what's wrong with your

shoulder because I've got this band-aid

over my over my tattoo and I said oh

there's nothing wrong with me there's

just a just a tattoo that I'm trying to

cover up because i know some people like

maybe they might be offended by that or

they would have a problem with that

again there's a lot of older people that

go to the pool where i am basically the

only young person there everyone else is

like over 60 years old so they have fun

with me anyway but just something like

that might be a little bit kind of out

of place or it might make some people

uncomfortable anyway so she was saying

that she was actually impressed that I

put on the band-aid and I was like oh I

just trying to do that I don't want to

cause any trouble I'm just here to

exercise and you know it shouldn't be

that big of a deal but obviously i don't

really want to wear the band-aid because

it's a it's a pain in the ass to have to

wear this band-aid but it was

interesting that she was talking about

the idea of the culture and saying that

like it's very good of you to respect

other people in that way and so what

she's really saying she's praising me

for understanding a part of Japanese

culture and it gets me thinking about

okay like like I wouldn't necessarily

praise someone for understanding that

aspect of of the culture in America like

you know it's really great that you like

respect other people's feelings and

things like that like it's not you know

it's important to do that in most places

but America that's not like a top thing

like as far as like you know the things

that you would praise someone about you

would praise them about their like

individualism and they're like desire to

go out and do something even if other

people are giving them trouble about it

so really the opposite kinds of things

that you would pray someone about in

Japan but anyway so it gets me thinking

about kind of the the typical idea that

people have about 25 people that you

spend the most time with our kind of

like your personality so if you take the

average of those five people and put

them all together as one person that's

like the the personality that you have

so if you spend more of your time with

wealthy people you're going to develop a

wealthier mindset our the ability to

understand how to make money better lots

of things like that if you spend time

alone around a lot of people that have

no money then you're going to develop

the mindset of those people that don't

really have much money

now for my point I'm living in a small

community and I don't even have like

five people that I could really call on

and be like hey like these are my five

people in my social circle or whatever

certainly outside of my fan

really but what I do recommend doing and

like if you're in a situation like that

recommending or knowing that you are in

a situation where you have to connect

with other people and those people are

going to influence you

you can get just as great of an

influence from people by reading what

they write in books so into when you're

kind of spending time with me like this

on these videos worry we're reading

things whether it's to improve your

English or just to learn more about life

or anything else even just to enjoy a

great story you get the your kind of

absorbing that part of the person their

ideas their ways of doing something

there ways of speaking just by spending

time with those people and so you don't

have to live in an area like I don't

live where there's no like I don't live

in Silicon Valley where everybody has

their own company and lots of people

doing things I just live in a small town

in japan so i have to depend on the

internet and the library and going to

bookstores and other things like that to

get lots of information but I used to

worry about well maybe I'm not like

developing my mindset as well because i

don't have like specific mentors in my

physical area that i can speak with all

the time but the more I started seeing

success in what I was doing without

having to think about that the more I

realize why I'm really like I have

access to all the information in the

world and so do you so you don't have to

think about like how should I be

learning English or how should I be

doing this like you go online you search

for you try a few things figure out what

works and then you continue working on

that until you you know reach the

success level that you're looking for

so the the kind of person you r is the

kind of person that you associate with

but it doesn't physically need to be

some kind of person in your local area

so spend time with the greatest minds

about business or the greatest minds

about fluency the greatest minds about

instruments or you know anything else

but you can do all that through learning

online and through books through videos

things like this and then actually try

to reach out and connect with those

people and if you can do that it's going

to help you get much more excited to

learn and get fluent faster so think

about the connections that you do have

and think about where we're your ideas

are coming from because the the people

that you connect with whether it's in

person or you're learning through books

or other things those are the things

that are really

going to affect how you develop and what

your personality will be like well

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