😓 Afraid you will NEVER get fluent in English? Here's the video you need

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What's stopping you from being fluent?
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I mean, what's actually holding you back from speaking
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and writing as fluently as you want to?
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It may not seem like it,
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but there are definitely ways that you can overcome this.
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And today, I'm going to share some useful tips to help you do just that.
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Five of our real life supporters who are English
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learners like you have shared video testimonials
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of some of the biggest challenges they face on the journey to fluency.
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So stick around, because it's very likely
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that you face the same struggles of learning English.
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By the way, if you haven't already done so, join our global community
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So you never miss out on our weekly lessons.
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Hi, everyone. I'm Esra from Turkey.
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I have been learning English for over ten years.
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Learning English can sometimes spill over when there's so much to learn. And
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sometimes I feel it is almost impossible
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to reach a point of being complete
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It is difficult
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to remember all the words or their other meanings.
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Even they've been learned to feed.
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You must study if they do not repeat or speak it.
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Just easy to forget.
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So we should spend lots of time.
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It is exhausting.
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OK, so the lesson here is that everything sucks sometimes.
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In other words, nothing is perfect all the time.
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For many English learners, English fluency can seem like this enormous mountain
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in front of you, and just looking at it fills you with fear you like.
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How am I ever going to conquer this mountain?
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How am I ever going to reach the top?
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This seems impossible.
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And you might climb a little bit and things are ok
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and then things start to get scary and you think, OK, I should turn back.
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This is probably not for me.
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I'm not fit enough.
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I'm not a mountain climber.
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I don't know how to do this. I don't have the best equipment.
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This is what it can feel like at times.
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As an English learner, we feel like we want to give up because
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how am I ever going to achieve this?
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How am I ever going to learn all the grammar rules?
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Maybe I'm just not a good speaker.
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One of the mistakes I notice people make, including myself, is that we think that
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once we get that job, or we pass that English exam
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or we sign up for that course, everything's going to be perfect.
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We're going to be confident everything will flow and fall into place.
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But this is not the case.
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The reality is that most of the time, once you achieve one goal,
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there are so many more steps to get to where you're going.
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So the idea is not to think of learning English
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as the scary mountain of challenges that you'll never be able to overcome.
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And that you should just deal
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with the challenges and accept that it's always going to suck.
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No. Instead, what helps us to understand that these challenges are temporary
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and that they're just roadblocks on your path to success.
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Many successful people, including language learners, say that this is exactly
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what helps them through
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those difficult moments on their way to achieving their goals.
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The mindset that they have
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is that they accept the difficult moments as part of the process.
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Hello, my name is Mary and I'm learning
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English with a real life English center for three years.
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One of my biggest fear of
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speaking English is the thought that I
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won't be able to support our real conversation.
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What happens if I don't remember the word
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or maybe I misunderstand something,
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or maybe I mispronounce something
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and I can be rude or offend somebody?
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For these reasons, I swear most of the time
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it's there in my confession.
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I don't speak.
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So the lesson here is how to eliminate fear.
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Well, the truth is, you can and you shouldn't want to.
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If we didn't have any fear, we'd almost likely die.
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Fear protects us, but it shouldn't control us.
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So picture going, shark cage diving.
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You're in the middle of the ocean, and the only thing between you
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and the razor sharp teeth of a shark is a cage around you.
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So this cage protects you from being the sharks lunge.
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So while the cage is a positive thing in situations like shark cage
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diving, in social situations, like when you're speaking English,
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you're trying to engage with other people.
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The cage can be a negative thing.
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That cage is holding you back from meeting new friends, from networking
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with people in your industry, from living a free and happy life.
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The key to getting out is courage, and you can use it
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in the middle of the ocean or at the party.
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The key is always in your position.
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So choose to be courageous.
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It takes courage to stand up against the criticism
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and self-doubt that often stands in the way of fluency
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and even success in general, and how you get to that place
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of comfortably using that key whenever you want
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is by doing little acts of courage every day.
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Baby Steps.
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A great example of an activity that requires this kind of courage
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is practicing your English with a speaking partner,
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even though you're feeling shy or doubting your English ability.
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Now, if your desire to speak English and connect with others
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is greater than your fear, then you're
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absolutely going to love a real life English app.
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You'll also have access to real life conversations with our podcast.
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We will talk about how to best learn English, movies, culture,
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We even recently published an inspiring podcast episode,
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which I will talk about how they faced similar challenges
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and fears on their language learning journeys.
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The best part is that you can practice along
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Hello, this is Steffi I am an intermediate level student
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and I've been learning English for different year since author and home
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table to read books to listen podcast
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the however when it's time for me to speak.
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All right.
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I can't recall all the new words
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I learned, and I tend to use it ever the same.
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So I have this feeling that my vocabulary is very poor.
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But it isn't.
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OK, so here the lesson is
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that you can only achieve as far as you believe.
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Imagine getting ready to build your dream home.
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What is the first thing you need?
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Well, you would probably start with a blueprint
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or plan of what you imagined your dream home would look like.
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So if you're designing your home and you only sketch or draw
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a small, simple home
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with one bedroom, a roof doors and windows,
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then when it comes time to build, that's exactly what you're going to get.
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You're limited to that because if all you believed was possible.
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But if you open yourself up to designing something incredible and maybe you hire
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someone to help you design this home, when it comes time to build,
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you're going to have something spectacular.
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Now, this design, this blueprint, this plan obviously represents your life.
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More specifically, your belief in yourself and what's possible in your life.
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There's an awesome quote by Elizabeth Gilbert from the book Big Magic
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where she says, If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.
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This means that you decide how much or how little you are capable of.
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For example, if someone compliments you and they say, Wow,
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your English is really good, and your response is, oh, no, I mean,
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I don't know, my grammar is really bad or Oh, no, my English sucks.
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So the more you argue those limitations, the more you're conditioning
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that disbelief in your subconscious mind and you're basically
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shrinking your self-image, your potential
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and your ability to visualize yourself.
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As a fluent English speaker.
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So a really simple fix for this is to shift the dialog.
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So instead of saying, Oh, I suck.
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I say to that person, Thank you, I appreciate that.
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Then make a mental note.
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Tell yourself that I'm going to continue getting better.
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I'm going to continue making that person proud.
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I'm going to continue making myself proud because
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clearly I'm doing something right.
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Actually learn English for a while in Nice.
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You have that uncanny feeling.
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We may have to speak in English, especially when it's an important
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situation.
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I fear that people will judge me if I make mistakes,
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that I'm not competent for them.
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To lead him or that I'm not skilled.
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So the lesson here is we all want to be loved
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and validated but don't let that control you.
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Imagine you speak English in public and someone comes up to you
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and says Your English sucks.
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Never speak English ever again.
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Even though this is just one person's opinion, it can really hurt
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when someone says something negative about us,
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especially about our abilities if we've been practicing really hard.
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If you feel this kind of fear that comes with this need for validation from others,
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it helps to remember that your worth, your ability,
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your specialness does not depend on other people.
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It's almost as if they're
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waiting for someone to tap them on the shoulder and say, Hey, you've got it.
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But this essentially puts your purpose
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and your gifts in the hands of someone else,
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and waiting for someone to come along and say
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you're enough is a waste of time.
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You don't need it.
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You define you.
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Hate I've been learning and speaking English since my childhood.
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I can I think I'm pretty
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okay to speak English to do all my day to day activities But what's holding me
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back from expressing myself fully in English is perfectionism.
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I want everything to be perfect.
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The words and phrases I use, the pronunciation of words,
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the speech, rhythm, etc..
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And because of all this, I sometimes
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just don't speak at all.
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So this fifth lesson is trying to be perfect.
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Is a waste of time difficult
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moments are natural, and we all experience them.
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Sometimes we're up and sometimes we're down.
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We experienced the highs.
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We experienced the lows, the ebbs and flows of life.
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You've probably heard that perfectionism is bad.
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But what is it?
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So think of perfectionism.
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As a line.
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It's going from one end to the other.
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And in both ends of this line are the extremes, right?
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And both of them can be equally bad for you.
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So if you go too far, unlike lacking
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any kind of desire to get things right, that's bad.
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If you're trying to be too perfect, this is bad as well.
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So why does it get difficult?
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Once we reach a particular point of trying to be perfect,
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the reason for this is because you're exhausting yourself.
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You're using more energy than what you're actually getting out of the situation.
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So even though you're staying up late, studying for hours,
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you're not really remembering any of the knowledge.
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So once you reach a certain point, you've hit a point that you can physically.
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It's as much as you can physically take.
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And if you keep going, basically what you're doing is
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it's like you're exhausting yourself. And you're not.
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It's getting harder and harder to actually move forward along this line.
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So as a recovering perfectionist, this really resonates with me
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So the tip here is
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do not measure your self-worth by your successes or your failures,
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but instead tied into how dedicated you are to achieving your goals.
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When you can actually say that you care more about making English a natural part
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of your daily life and your identity than you do about what other people think.
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That is when perfectionism starts to fade away and that line disappears.
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So today we covered
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five tips that you can use to overcome certain fears
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that are holding you back from fluency in English.
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Here's a quick recap.
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Everything sex sometimes how to eliminate fear
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you can only achieve as far as you believe.
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We all want to be loved and validated, but don't let it control you.
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Trying to be perfect is a waste of time.
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So that's it for today, guys.
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I hope you're feeling fearless and ready to take on
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any challenge that stands in your way of fluency.
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If you would like to continue
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learning with us and be sure to check out this lesson next
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It always feels like there's more.
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We have to give more time
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we have to spend, and it always feels like it's such a chore
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and something that I've personally found to be true when it comes
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to this aspect of connecting or finding speaking partners
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or even making friends in the language that you're learning as a social media
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can be one of the best tools to achieve this.
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So today I'm going to show you how you can use these five social apps
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to not only advance your English, but also advance your social life.
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