You Can Learn English | Don't Give Up | Life Lesson for a Positive Mindset | Go Natural English

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2017-10-26 ・ Go Natural English


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You Can Learn English | Don't Give Up | Life Lesson for a Positive Mindset | Go Natural English

25,478 views ・ 2017-10-26

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Hey there I'm really glad that you are here, how are you?
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This time I'm gonna share something a little bit more personal
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Usually I share an English lesson or I talk about advice for English fluency
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yeah, I answer your questions about English grammar or guide you with pronunciation and
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This is going to be a little bit different. It'll still help you with learning English and in fact
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I think it may be one of the most
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valuable lessons that I can share
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But it's a different kind of lesson it comes from personal experience my own personal experience this past week you
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Know I thought about the teachers that I've had the ones that made the most impact the ones who I learned the most from
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my English teacher in middle school my journalism teacher in high school my Spanish teacher in University and
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several teachers I've had as an adult as I
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Continue to learn things and the ones who have really helped me the most were the ones who
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Shared some personal lessons with me, so that's what I want to do today
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See this past week has been a little bit difficult a little bit challenging. I had a lot of
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technical problems I
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Forgot to turn on my microphone when I recorded a batch of videos one day so
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when I
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reviewed
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several videos that I had recorded and I thought I would be really happy with them I
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Realized that there was no sound
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It's not the first time that I've done that but it's quite disappointing when that happens you know alone
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It wouldn't be a big deal, but then when I went to rerecord those videos
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I realized that I didn't focus my camera properly
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Then when I went to rerecord those videos my camera completely stopped working, and it was no fault of my own
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So it's been a tough week and on top of all that my laptop has been giving me issues
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I think it's getting old and full of files, and I probably need to clean it
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I'm not sure if that's going to be enough so I
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Might need to get a new laptop and a new camera, so it's kind of a pain
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And it's really slowed me down this week not only
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Because I wanted to start the go natural English elite membership program and because of all of these problems
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It's been delayed
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Also, because I wanted to share a lot of new video lessons with you
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but I couldn't because I didn't record them properly and
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It just took away my energy, and it made me sad this week, but it made me think of an
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idiom
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when it rains it pours
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And then I thought well when it rains
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That's when flowers grow
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when it rains it pours
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Means that when good things happen or when bad things happen they feel like they're happening all at the same time
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Have you ever experienced this where several good things happen all at once or maybe several bad things happen all at once
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Well it definitely feels like this is true for this week, but then I realized that rain brings good things
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Rain makes the flowers grow
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Rain gives us a wrench that maybe we didn't even know that we needed and so
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I'd like to tie this in with one of the most important lessons that
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I've learned from my own teachers is that sometimes when something bad happens
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When something goes wrong or goes a different way than you wanted it to
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Maybe there's a reason for that
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Maybe you needed the rain to grow something really good or maybe what we really needed was
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to stop and reflect
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to do it better the next time
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maybe I needed to rerecord those videos because I needed to do them better and better and better and
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When you have setbacks when you have challenges when you have problems well what I've learned
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To not see them as problems, but see them as opportunities
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I'm gonna tell you something super personal super secret that I'm not really proud of see a few years ago
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I was working as an English professor abroad in a university and
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I was fired
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Can you believe it? I love teaching English, and I really enjoyed working with the students there, so
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When I was let go it was a huge shock
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but I
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Thought about it
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And I realized that it was absolutely the best and right thing that
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Had to happen, and I was grateful that it happened. It was a
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blessing I would say because then
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that
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Redirected me they redirected me from being an English professor in a university
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To being a full-time youtuber making lessons for you here at go natural English and honestly
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This is the best thing that's ever happened to me
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So what I want to remind myself
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To remind you of and to encourage us all to do is to look for the blessing within the problem
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It's there. I promise no matter what happens. We will continue to learn together
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We'll continue to improve together, and we'll look for the good that can happen even when we don't see it at first
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So I hope that you take this lesson into your English learning
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You could apply it to making mistakes for example if you get embarrassed about making a mistake in English
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It's okay, maybe the mistake was a good one because it teaches you how to improve
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So the next time we can do better
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Thanks so much for watching if you enjoyed
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This message, please take a minute to leave me a comment and let me know what you think
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Subscribe to go natural English by clicking right over there, and you can come me at gonaturalenglish.com
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By clicking right up
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there
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Thanks so much for watching. I love you mwah
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Thank you so much for being part of the go natural English community. Talk to you again soon bye for now
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