Why Most People Don't Have SUCCESS — Podcast for English Learners

So I was born in São Paulo  Capital and I grew up there. 

I thought you were going for  that, um, Fresh Prince line,  

like in West Philadelphia, born and raised  on the playground is where I spent, anyway...

What does your English learning and  Leonardo DiCaprio have in common? Well,  

more than you might think. In this episode, we  talk about achievements and why just focusing on  

your goals is a bad strategy when it comes to your  English learning. I'm joined in the global studio  

today by the most lekker teacher in all South  Africa, the one, the only Casse! Hey, Casse. 

Hey, Thiago. How's it going? I'm doing well. How are you? 

I'm good. I'm, I'm really good  today. Thank you for asking. 

Awesome. So, Casse, today we are talking  all about achievements, right? But what  

does it mean? Could you define to our viewers  and listeners here what an achievement is? 

Uh, yeah, so an achievement is something  that you succeed at. Something that you, you,  

a goal that you are successful at or something  that you manage to be really good at in life. 

Yeah. Yeah. And I think achievements  are so important in our lives,  

right? Because if you don't have achievements,  what's the purpose of living? Right? I mean,  

it, it gives us meaning. You work hard for  something, for a goal, and then you achieve it,  

and then you go like, yes. Awesome. What's the  next challenge? Yeah. So today we're gonna be  

talking all about that and, we're gonna be sharing  with you guys today, um, some achievements that  

we have experienced in our personal lives, you  know, I hope that you enjoy it. And also we're  

gonna explain exactly what Leonardo DiCaprio  have to do with all of that. Okay? So Casse,  

um, I would like to ask you first, what is  one achievement you're proud of in your life? 

So, one thing that I'm really proud of is that,  like, near the end of my high school career,  

like I was going through some really difficult  times, like in my family, and I'll spare you guys,  

like, the details, it's not a sad podcast  episode. I'll save it for next time. Um,  

but yeah. Anyway, so I went through some really  difficult times in my family and I was really  

struggling to stay, um, inspired or stay motivated  or to see, you know, in terms of my self-esteem,  

and, you know, like young kids always think like,  oh, what am I gonna become when I'm older? Like,  

am I doomed? Am I destined to just like fail?  Or, you know, is my life gonna be mediocre or  

am I ever gonna know what I wanted to do the rest  of my life? And I struggled with that too. But,  

um, I kept working hard. I kept studying hard,  and I was able to successfully, um, be accepted  

at the top university in the country. And actually  it's the top university on the continent - I found  

that out recently - so I was really, it made me  feel, it filled me with like this huge amount of  

self, not confidence, wouldn't say  self-confidence, but it gave me that boost,  

you know, in terms of my self-esteem and, and  just, it was like getting that confirmation  

or affirmation that I am able to do great  things if I set my mind to it. And, you know,  

once I had achieved that, once I was able to, you  know, register and, and attend this university,  

I, I think what also helped me to recognize my  potential and, and my strengths was that I also  

managed to have really great relationships, or  that's not a good word, but I had a really great,  

um, set of teachers and lecturers at this  university who, who, um, enforced or reiterated  

that those ideas and those, and affirmed me,  you know, in terms of the things that I wanted  

to do. And, um, I, I know this sounds like I'm  just, like I was just a kid who was lost and  

needed a self-esteem boost, but it, it was bigger  than that because I think it shaped the way that  

I think about myself now. And, you know, that  might seem like a tiny moment in, in my past,  

but I think it paved, it paved the way, um,  to the person that I am today. And it really,  

it really is something that set the  foundation of like who I am today and  

how I see myself and where I see myself  going. So that to me was an achievement. 

Yeah, it's a great one. Yeah. So that was when  you got into a journalism school, right? (No) No? 

Actually, not journalism school. It, I  studied film, media and drama. So, (Before?)  

those were... Yes. Oh, I did. I didn't know that. You see. 

It's, it's a back back story  to like who Casse is. But yeah,  

I studied that before I, I  ended up doing journalism. 

That's cool. Yeah. I, I imagine you must  have enjoyed that course. I would've  

enjoyed that course, I think, you know. The person I am today would appreciate  

that course a lot more than the person  I was back then. I think I was still,  

I think I was 17 when I, when I started  university. And I think my mind wasn't quite  

ready for it. But I always, there's a quote that  I love. I, oh, and I, English, English literature  

was, was one of my majors as well. That's why  I love poetry. I love English so much. But, um,  

there's a quote by George Elliot, that says, ""It  is never too late to be what you might have been.  

It is never too late to be what you might  have been."" So I think that, you know,  

if I think about like what I, what I, who I was  back then and who I am now, I still think the two  

can connect. And somehow that like, media and  film studies, English literature, it's gonna,  

it's gonna play a role. I'm gonna, I'm still gonna  do what I was supposed to do when I was there, so. 

That's amazing. That actually reminds me of that  famous, uh, Steve Jobs commencement speech that  

he gave, I think at Stanford in 2005, if  I remember correctly. And in that speech,  

he talks about connecting the dots. How sometimes  you take some courses or you do some things in  

your life, you don't know exactly how you're  gonna use that information in the future,  

but you cannot connect the dots looking forward,  only looking backwards, right? So maybe in the  

future you look back and then you go like, oh,  yeah, now it makes sense why I studied that,  

why I was interested in that, because, you  know, then I can connect the dots. Uh, one  

point that you mentioned that I thought it was  interesting was the fact that Casse from today  

would probably enjoy that course, the media course  more than Casse from the past. And I think there  

is some truth to that in all of us, because we are  so young, yeah, when we have to make a decision  

on what to study, like what course to take at  college, for example, like 17-18, I think. Um,  

yeah. I mean, maybe if you took that course older  and more mature, you would enjoy it more. I guess  

that's why some countries have the, the gap year.  Right? Could you explain to the listeners and the  

viewers what a gap year is in that context? Sure. So a gap year is basically  

one year, or sometimes people take gap years. It's  just a, a break between studying. So usually after  

you finish high school, you know, you go straight  to college. But some people prefer to take some  

time off from studying, do something else, maybe  go to work, maybe do an internship, or, you know,  

travel abroad or do something that doesn't require  them to study. And usually it's a period where  

they find themselves - that's what people  like to say - find out what they want to do,  

or maybe save some money for some people in,  you know, it's not a matter of like choice,  

right? So some people need to take some time off  studying and to go and work to save some money,  

or, you know, just to figure out what they  want to do for the rest of their lives. 

Yeah. I think it's a, it's a good idea, you  know, uh, to see some of the world first,  

you know, before going back to school again  and start studying again. So, yeah, I mean,  

I, I do see the validity in that. We don't have  that here in Brazil. Uh, but, um, I think it's a,  

it's a good practice, you know, for young people.  Uh, before I share with you my achievement, Casse,  

I do have some vocabulary questions to  ask you. So you said the word spare at  

the beginning. Uh, I wanna spare you the details  or spare you that story. What does that mean? 

So if you spare someone from something, it means  I'm gonna save you. I'm gonna save you from it.  

In other words, I, I won't bother you  by telling you the details. Um, I'm  

gonna spare you from it. I won't put you  through having to listen to the details. 

And you used a very nice word also. You  said doomed. Oh, I'm doomed to...What  

does that mean to be doomed? Yeah. So if you're doomed to do something,  

um, you know, maybe, you know, if  you study something you don't like,  

and now you are doomed to, to follow  that career path means that you have  

no choice. It's your destiny to do  it. But in a, it's a more negative,  

in a more negative sense. So like, oh, you're  gonna be, you're doomed to do it. You have, you're  

gonna have to suffer through that process. Like you're sentenced, right? 

Yes, exactly. So it's a, it's a bad thing,  

right? (Yeah) Yeah. Okay. Uh, you, you said the  word mediocre. Um, so something mediocre means  

average, something average, mediocre. But I, I  would like to highlight that word because I love  

the sound of that word. The pronunciation  - mediocre we say. Right? Can you say that  

again? Mediocre? (Mediocre) Uh, there you go.  You got a little bit -kuh at the end there.  

Yeah? The schwa. Yeah. The schwa, and the, and the  R is not really pronounced in your case. Right? 

No, no, no. We don't, we don't  use the, the rolled R - mediocre. 

I love the sound of that word. And mediocre,  or mediocre. Yeah. It's great. And you also  

said paved the way, that experience paved  the way for you. Uh, what does that mean? 

Yeah. So when something paves the way for  something else, it means, think of bricks,  

like put you, and you're laying bricks, if you've  ever seen that process, or if you think about it,  

uh, maybe the game Tetris, I don't know. I'm  thinking of like bricks on top of each other. So,  

um, if you, if something paves the way for  something else, it means that it's preparing  

the path or it, it creates the stepping stones.  It create, it creates the pathway to something  

else. So you can even say that someone paved  the way for me. In other words, someone  

set the example, they went through  it first and they, they created the,  

the way for me to do it, the opportunity for  me to do it because someone else did it first,  

I now have the opportunity to do it cuz they  paved the way they went through it first,  

and now I know what to do. So that's my  little achievement from when I was younger.  

How about you, Thiago? Tell us about yours. Yeah. In my case, Casse, um, I think the  

obvious one for us here is learning English in  my home country. Um, I think I, I was able to  

learn English very well, never having traveled  abroad. That's an achievement that I'm proud of  

and I will be proud of until I die. Right? Uh,  but I'm not gonna get into this today because,  

you know, uh, we've already done a video, where  I share my story. So, by the way, guys, if you  

wanna see my story, uh, on how I learned English  here in my home country, Brazil, you can check out  

this lesson here that we're gonna, um, link in the  description and then you can watch it later. Okay.  

But for this episode, I think the achievement  I wanted to share was leaving my parents' house  

when I was 24. You know, I left my parents'  house when I was 24, and I moved not only, uh,  

from their house, but also I moved cities. Yeah.  So I am originally from Sao Paulo capital, and I,  

I was born and raised there. Um, and then at 24,  I came to the city where I live today in Curitiba,  

which is in the south of the country. And I'm very  proud of that because, you know, um, I wanted my  

independence at that time. You know, I wanted, I  wanted to, you know, get out of my, get, get, get,  

what's the, the expression, get away or get out  of my parents' wing? Is that correct to say that? 

You can say, I, I wanted to get out from under my  parents' wing. (Ah) like a chicken, you know, the,  

the hen - it walks and her chicks are under here. So the correct way to say this is I wanted to get  

out from under my parents' wings. Yeah. That's  what I wanted. Yeah. So I wanted to have my life  

and my place and, you know, not having to explain  myself to it, to everybody. So I did it. Yeah.  

I came here with a couple more friends at that  time. We had kind of a similar goal of making it,  

right, in this new city, in this new state. Um,  unfortunately they didn't adapt very well to the  

city, so they left a few months later. But I did,  I left the city and I, I got a job at that time,  

uh, rather quickly, you know, and I stayed. Yeah.  And I think it was, uh, a great decision for  

me, you know, because then I met my, my wife, she  is from here, and then, you know, now we have kids  

together. Yeah. So, um, yeah, it was a, it was a  great decision. Yeah. But this idea of leaving,  

yeah, relatively young, I think that was, uh,  good. It wasn't easy. Of course, I had some  

challenges. Yeah. Because, you know, you have  to do everything on, uh, by yourself, right? And  

I did have, I did have some people along the way  who helped me, especially at the beginning, right.  

Um, with some key things. But overall,  I'm proud of that, of leaving early. Yeah. 

I think like the, the level of independence, um,  that, and like self-reliance, I think that's,  

that's it. Because you, you cannot  turn to mom and dad and go like, oh,  

you know, I'm struggling right now. Of course you  can, I'm sure your parents would never turn you  

away. But I, I, I think it's, you wanna show them  that, you know, I made this decision. I'm grown.  

So I think that's really, really awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I love that word that you use,  

by the way. Self-reliance. What's that? So when you rely, think of the word rely, so when  

you rely on someone, you're, you need them.  You know, I'm relying on you. I need you to  

help me with this. Um, when you self-rely, you are  only, you only need yourself, you're depending on  

yourself, your own strengths, your own abilities.  I'm self-reliant. I can do it by myself. It's  

similar to, to being an independent, I guess. But,  um, yeah, think of it more like, I don't depend,  

I don't need anyone else to do this. I'm  able to do this on my own. I'm self-reliant. 

Awesome. Cool. I wanna ask you,  

you said your friends didn't make it. What  does it mean when someone doesn't make it? 

When you have a goal and you don't achieve  that, you know, you can say that you didn't  

make it. Uh, so when you are not successful  at executing a plan, or achieving a goal that  

you have, you can say that you don't make it.  The opposite is also true. If you achieve the,  

the goal that you set for yourself, or  if you were able to carry out the plan,  

yeah, that you created, you made it. Uh,  we usually say that to refer to success,  

right? When a person becomes very successful at  something, we say that the person has made it. 

You also answered, like you said, you were  born and raised, um. What does that mean? 

Born and raised. Yeah. So I was born in Sao  Paulo Capital, and I grew up there. Yeah.  

So my first 24 years of life were spent there. I  was raised there. Um, your raise you for example,  

or any close family member, maybe a grandparent.  Yeah. But typically your parents, right? So your  

mom and dad, they raise you. They help you grow  up well with education and clothing and food  

and health, right? This is raising someone.  If you have kids, you have to raise them. 

I, I thought you were growing, you were  going for that, um, Fresh Prince line,  

like in West Philadelphia, born and raised on  the playground is where I spent, anyway, sorry.  

I love that episode you did with, with Ethan. I  was watching it again. Yeah. It, it's great that  

you mentioned that. So, uh, we can also link  that episode in the description below, uh, for  

the viewers and the listeners, uh, to listen or  watch later. It's episode 325, where we practice  

listening skills with the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.  That was a fun one to do. Okay, Casse. So now that  

we have both shared a couple of achievements here  that we have experienced, I thought it would be  

cool for us to share, briefly share, um, a story  about someone who has achieved huge success only  

later in their lives. Because many people have  this misconception that past a certain age, you  

are too old, right? Oh, past 40, past 50, or even  60, right? I'm too old, I can't do anything else,  

or I can't accomplish anything else. But these  stories that we're gonna briefly share with you  

guys actually prove the opposite. And you do  have a couple of nice examples to give, right? 

I wanna add to what you're saying because I  think that for women, I'm not saying it's only  

for women, but I think a lot of the time, you  know, women have a different biological clock.  

So I think women are always thinking about the  time they get to 30. They need to have certain,  

certain things in order. So like, usually it's  the family life needs to be, I dunno, at least by  

your early thirties, you need to have that family  life, husband, kids or whatever. You're starting  

to think about the future. But when it comes to  the career, like they always feel like there has  

to be a choice: I'm gonna be a career woman, or  I'm gonna be a family woman. And this is usually  

that decision that has, that falls on women. But  I think one amazing, uh, example of someone who,  

um, really hit her stride, like after 30  is J.K. Rolling. I think she's like the,  

the best example that I can think of,  of someone who really, truly found,  

um, success later in life, right? When I say  later, I'm saying relative because she found  

it at 32. Um, and that's not late at all. For  those of you listening, if you're older than 32,  

it's, you're not late. But I think in terms of  what society thinks of as, um, older tends to,  

you know, by the time you're 32, you should have  your life on track. But let me talk about J.K.. So  

like, what she did was, she was going through  a really tough time, you know, like she was,  

um, I believe she was struggling with depression.  She was, you know, dealing with financial issues  

and going through a really bad divorce. And,  you know, she, she was also a mom, you know,  

at the time. And while going through all of  that, she started to write Harry Potter. And,  

um, this book obviously then blew, took the  world by storm, it blew up. And, um, it was  

published in 1997, and I think she was, yeah, she  was 32 at the time, but it really was the start.  

It was like the spark that just like ignited her  career, like it's in a, in a positive way. Like,  

she really blew up after that. I think, uh, maybe, I think I,  

I heard that she wrote the first Harry Potter  book in a coffee shop, right? Because I don't  

know if it was cuz of the, the heating system  they had, or the wifi, I don't know. But. 

I heard that too. She wrote that in a coffee shop. I don't know if  

it was the whole book or the first chapters. Yeah. And, and just think about like, you know, how,  

not only how successful the, the books are or the  films are, but like, if we think about our own,  

like Learn English with TV lessons, like  think about how many fans absolutely adore  

those lessons because it's become such  a staple for English learners as well.  

Um, so yeah, it's amazing. By the way, what does that mean, when  

something becomes a staple for a group of people? Like essential, it's like an, yeah. So when  

something is a staple, it's like an essential,  it's like a go-to thing. So if you think of like  

staple foods of countries, we might say that, I  don't know, rice and beans is a staple in Brazil,  

um, you know, corn tends to be a staple  here in South Africa. Things like that. 

Essential, nice. It's a staple. That's a, it's a  great piece of vocabulary. I like that. Yeah. And  

one example that I have of someone who achieved  huge success only later in life is actually,  

uh, Steve Carell. Um, because, you know, I have, I  even have here, um, a paragraph that I got from an  

article, and let me read it to you guys. Beloved  comedian, Steve Carell is known for his many  

blockbuster hits, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin  and the Big Short. But he didn't land his hit role  

as Michael Scott in The Office until he was 42.  So, you know, I think that show really made his  

career. Yeah. And we, we both love The Office.  It's such a hilarious, uh, TV show. And, uh, it's  

crazy to think that when he got that role, he was  42 years old already. Right? So, you know, it,  

it's a good example of maybe he was, I, I think  he, maybe he had made movies before already. He  

was already working on it, uh, in the industry.  But the big break, let's say, yeah, or the,  

that role that made his career, yeah, or that  really put it on the, put him on the map - it  

only came in his forties. Right? So that's another  example that I can think of, yeah, about that. 

I like what you said, putting, putting  him on the map. What does that mean? 

When, in this case, a person becomes more evident  or more famous. Yeah. Maybe he was making small  

movies or small productions before he was maybe  somewhat well known, but after The Office,  

he became worldwide famous. So that show put  him on the map. But, um, still talking about  

achievements, right? Uh, another point that I  think is important to mention here is that it's  

important to enjoy the journey, right? Because  sometimes we might feel obsessed with the goal,  

maybe, oh, like learning English or being  fluent. But if you don't enjoy the journey,  

it's gonna be very hard for you to actually  get your destination. Yeah. Because the journey  

is not pleasant. And these are examples that  we are sharing here. For example, like Steve  

Carell or even J.K. Roland, for example, yeah,  they were doing the work for a while, yeah,  

before, uh, getting that goal or achieving  that level of success. And another example  

that I can think of is Leonardo DiCaprio. Now  bringing DiCaprio into the discussion because,  

um, I remember watching his first movie, I  think in the nineties. He, he, I don't know if  

it was his first movie or one of his first movies  called Basketball Diaries or something like that,  

The Basketball Diaries. And he plays, uh, a  teenager who is addicted to drugs. And, uh, I, I  

could see back then that he was such a good  actor already, but he didn't stop there. I think  

two years later he did Titanic, which was huge,  you know? And ever since, you know, he has been  

making lots of good movies, but he only won the  Oscars recently. Yeah. I think with the Revenant,  

and it was a few years ago. And, there was even  talk already of, oh, when is Leo DiCaprio gonna  

win the Oscar for best actor? When, you know?  People were kind of expecting it, but it wasn't  

happening until it finally happened, happened,  like, you know, years later. Yeah. Did you see  

that, by the way, uh, his acceptance speech? I did. I did. And something that I,  

I, I think as well, just to touch on what  you mentioned before, like, it's like  

people could be telling you, oh, you're such,  you're so good at this, or you should keep going,  

and you're feeling, you're thinking to yourself,  nah, I should give up. If, um, I was good,  

I would've been winning awards. If I would've  been recognized by the film industry a long,  

a long time ago. I've been doing this for years,  I should just give up. I'm not that good. Um, and  

I think with Leonardo DiCaprio in this example, I  keep thinking that, I don't think he was fazed by,  

um, the idea of like, I need to win the  award in order to feel good about myself,  

or I need to win this award in, in order for  me to recognize myself as a good actor. He was  

take still taking on roles. He was never going  bankrupt, you know, he wasn't declining anything.  

He was just living his life enjoying the process,  as you mentioned before. And I think this is so,  

this is so important for all of us to think about,  like in our, where we are at in our careers or in  

our learning journeys. Um, and yeah, I think it's,  it's, it's just a really great point that you, you  

raised. But yes, on his acceptance speech, really,  I, I felt moved. I thought it was really, really,  

um, I think there was so many memes about like  him before, like him not winning, like, uh,  

Leo just always waiting for his, his turn. It was,  it was a proud moment for sure. (Yeah.) I think. 

I think, uh, he, he's known for being, uh,  concerned about the environment? Yeah. And  

I think he actually used that opportunity when  he accepted the Oscars, uh, to talk about that,  

right, trying to raise people's awareness of the  environmental issues we have nowadays. Right? So  

also, we could say that that was an example  of someone who was standing up for what they  

believe in. So at that moment, he was standing  up for a belief that he had. And what does that  

mean when you stand up for what you believe in? So, um, I remember we, we, when we were discussing  

like, um, you know, today's episode, we were  talking about like the difference between like  

standing up for, or standing up to, and, um,  you know, totally different things. So I'll  

just explain the difference in preposition there  as well. So when you stand up for something,  

you are saying that, you know, this is what I  believe in. This is the right way. I'm standing  

up for this. I am, I'm in agreement. You're  aligning yourself with that thing or that idea,  

and you're saying, um, I'm gonna support  this. I'm gonna back this, I'm going to,  

you know, put myself, uh, in front. Like,  let's say you're standing up for human rights,  

you're standing up for the environment. You're,  you're saying this is the cause that I believe  

in. But if you stand up to someone or something,  you are, it's more confrontational. You're saying,  

um, you know, I'm, I'm gonna stand up to the  government. I don't know, for some reason,  

if you feel like standing up to your  government, it means that you're saying,  

I don't agree with what you're saying, and I'm  gonna stand up to you now, I'm gonna have my say. 

Yeah. And that actually reminds me, Casse, of  a fun fact about the Oscars that Ididn't know  

about until a few years ago. Um, as you guys can  see here in my background, I am a huge Godfather  

fan. Um, and Marlon Brando, who plays the main  character, one of the main characters in the  

first movie, he won the Oscars for best actor in  the seventies. That was 1972 or three if I'm, I'm  

mistaken. But he rejected the Oscars, he turned it  down. And actually, I thought it would be cool for  

us to watch the clip here of when he was announced  as the winner and what happened. So, uh, Thiago,  

could you please play it for us? The winner is  

Marlon Brando  

and the Godfather. 

Hello, my name is Sashi Little Feather. I'm  Apache and I'm president of the National  

Native American Affirmative Image Committee.  I'm representing Marlon Brando this evening,  

and he has asked me to tell you in a very long  speech, which I cannot share with you presently  

because of time, but I will be glad  to share with the press afterwards,  

that he very regretfully cannot accept  this very generous award. And the reasons  

for this being are the treatment of American  Indians today by the film industry, excuse me,  

and on television, in movie reruns, and also with  recent happenings at Wounded Knee. I beg at this  

time that I have not intruded upon this evening,  and that we will in the future, our hearts  

and our understandings will meet with love and  generosity. Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando. 

I mean, can you imagine how shocking that must  have been at the time? I, I don't remember,  

maybe there were other cases, but I don't  remember other people like rejecting the  

Oscars. Maybe there are, but what did you think? Yeah. I, I, I think it is quite shocking and quite  

like powerful, I think is, is the, the way  I would describe it. Because I think people  

standing up for what they believe in tends to,  to connect with our emotions in a way. Like,  

I mean, whether or not it was something that you  thought of before, or, I mean, it's that bravery.  

It's like sort of like you're so courageous  to stand up and, and reject something that so  

many thousands of actors in Hollywood, millions,  even , I mean over time, have like, wanted this  

thing. And you're saying, I, I don't want it if  that means that you are going to keep treating,  

um, native Americans in this way or,  you know, I just, I just, yeah. I mean,  

in terms of the representation, uh, which we can  get into in a minute, but I, I really think it's  

very powerful. I think it's brave. I think  it's courageous. I think it's something,  

um, that the world needs more of. Yeah, I think there is a, there is  

an interview that Marlon Brando gave after, at  a famous talk show in the seventies explaining  

his reasoning, uh, why he decided to do this.  Uh, but did you hear how when she was speaking,  

some people in the audience was booing her? You  know, what does it mean to boo somebody off stage? 

If you're booing someone, you are  basically sort of making a negative, um,  

having a negative reaction by making the sound  like boo, like sort of like a thumb's down . 

I, I love the fact that, you know, in English,  that word is literally the sound that we make,  

right? Boo. Yeah. The word is the sound  we make. In Portuguese, it is a completely  

different word for that. Yeah. It's Vaiar,  Vaiar. It's completely different. Yeah. But  

I love the fact that in English, we just, you  know, it is the sound Yeah. To boo boo. Yeah.  

Um, she does say, one nice piece  of vocabulary there that I think  

is nice to define. She talks about movie  reruns. What is a rerun? A movie rerun. 

So a rerun is a repeat. So when  the movie runs, it's, it, it goes,  

it plays, but when you're rerunning it, you  are playing it again for like, I don't know,  

the second or third time. So whenever,  you know, the however many of the time.  

So a rerun is a repeated episode. Episode or  movie that's been repeated more than once. 

And, I, I wanted to bring this clip today because  recently I saw a piece of news from last year,  

it's very recent in 2022, saying that, uh,  the Academy, right, actually issued a formal  

apology to her only now 49 years later. Yeah. It  was, this is like very recent last year, yeah,  

for the way that she was treated on that day, on  that in that evening. But can you imagine like,  

you know, 50, almost 50 years later, yeah,  the Academy finally issues a formal apology.  

Yeah. So, I thought it was very interesting. Yeah. I, I mean I'm, I'm, I'm not surprised,  

let me put it that way. I think progress in  everything in society as well takes a while.  

I think at the time, people's mindsets, their  perspectives on things were different to what they  

are today. And I'm, I'm really not surprised. It's  terrible, but I'm, I'm really not not surprised  

that it took them this long. I'm actually happy  that they at least got around to doing it because,  

yeah, these, these things often go unaddressed. Yeah. Yeah. So, we were talking about beliefs and  

standing up for what you believe in, right?  Uh, it also reminds me of Simon Sinek and,  

uh, and his famous Tad talk. He talks about how  when you talk about things that you believe you  

naturally attract, uh, people who believe what  you believe, who believe the same things you do.  

It's really about finding your group of people,  your community, right? And for English learners,  

I think a great way for you to do that is  by using our app. If you wanna connect with  

other passionate English learners who just  like you are in this journey of, you know,  

improving their English and becoming more  fluent in English, you should definitely  

check out our app. And I think now is a perfect  moment for us to go to a shout out section here.

So I would definitely say that this  connects with the mindset and you know,  

we mentioned before about, you know, how our  achievements sort of shape us and how, you know,  

even if it's a little achievement, even if it's  something small that seems insignificant in  

the moment, uh, or small victory, let's call it  that. If it's a small victory that seems minor,  

it's insignificant to, might seem insignificant  in the moment, but it could lead to great things  

if you keep going, if you keep working at it.  And that starts with a really specific kind of  

mindset, right? You have to have that sort of  willingness and that endurance to keep going. 

Yeah, we talk about the growth mindset a lot here  too. Yeah. Instead of having a fixed mindset,  

a growth mindset, I'm always learning. I'm open  to the journey. And life is an adventure. That's  

pretty much it. Awesome. So, uh, now we wanna  hear from you guys, dear viewers and listeners.  

The question for today is, have you seen any  movie lately that blew your mind or that blew  

you away? Share with us in the comment section  below a nice movie that you have seen recently.  

Or you can, again, you can also send us an email  at [email protected]. I hope you  

enjoyed today's episode and stay tuned for next  week's one, because it's gonna be also packed with  

info, vocab, inspiration, and other fun stuff.  And I'll talk to you soon. So 1, 2, 3. Aww Aww  

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