hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide and it is a pleasure
pleasure to welcome you to another
another advanced listening practice
practice lesson today i wanted to
to talk about actually a new book
book I've been reading i read i guess
guess maybe I try to read maybe like
like one or two books a week and maybe
maybe I not maybe get through the
the whole thing but i try to tend
tend
tend I
I guess I tend to look for a whole
whole bunch of interesting things
things i can find this actually kind
kind of an interesting segue in the
the video I will be talking about
about the specifically but the actual
actual idea about you know there's
there's a there's this guy on youtube
youtube actually named ty Lopez if
if you've probably seen his videos
videos maybe you know what I'm talking
talking about he
he runs a lot of ads that say like
like here in my garage I've
I've got this new Lamborghini here
here and you prize seen that video
video and he talks about reading a
a book a day although he doesn't actually
actually physically read a book a
a day just something that's really
really important to remember for people
people to do think about getting information
information as a really great way
way of learning things it's
it's important to obviously get some
some good nuggets of information some
some good pieces of information from
from books and typically a book will
will only have you know maybe one
one or two good ideas and the rest
rest of it is it's just kind of filler
filler or fluff these
these are words that just means that
that something is maybe it's kind
kind of their two to maybe give a
a few examples but it's not all that
that helpful really like the kind
kind of twenty percent of the book
book or even less than that that's
that's the really helpful part but
but the act of reading itself actually
actually getting a whole bunch of
of examples and going through the
the process of reading is really important
important to so if you are following
following that kind of advice of like
like okay I'm going to try to read
read a book a day but you know just
just get a book summary from somebody
somebody else really
really the information is important
important but actually teaching yourself
yourself to read especially in the
the case of a non-native speaker if
if you want to learn the English language
language
language you
you don't just want to get a few quick
quick tips about a piece of information
information you actually want to go
go through the language itself so
so don't worry about trying to read
read a whole bunch of books really
really quickly what
what you should be doing is trying
trying to actually pick a book you're
you're interested in whatever that
that subject happens to be and then
then you make sure you understand
understand at least eighty to ninety
ninety percent of it so that way all
all the new information that you're
you're getting any new words and phrases
phrases you can understand mostly
mostly from context and maybe you'll
you'll have to look up a word or two
two
two but
but it should be again something you
you understand most of all ready in
in something that's entertaining for
for you whatever that happens to be
be anyway since we're talking about
about books I just thought I'd start
start with that little introduction
introduction but a book that i've
i've been reading recently is called
called switch and it's a really interesting
interesting book talking about how
how you can get a specifically organizations
organizations to change maybe you're
you're the maybe a person like a director
director working in a particular part
part of a hospital or you're a coach
coach at a university and trying to
to figure out how to change the way
way your team plays for the attitude
attitude of something like that so
so it's a really interesting book
book talking about how people change
change or how to get people to change
change and so thinking about myself
myself always trying to figure out
out how we can improve and do things
things better i'm constantly reading
reading books about you know new ways
ways of doing things in new ways of
of thinking and then when i hear something
something interesting I like to pass
pass that along to you anyway so this
this books which a couple of interesting
interesting points and that I'll talk
talk about one in particular but just
just the general idea is that really
really we've got two parts in our
our mind are two parts to ourselves
ourselves
ourselves the
the first part is the elephant and
and this is the emotionally huge massive
massive thing that's driven by the
the things that it wants and the things
things that it wants right now and
and the other part of that is like
like the rider that sits on top of
of the elephant and this is the more
more logical side the side that's
that's trying to control us and actually
actually hopefully guide us to thinking
thinking about succeeding or doing
doing things that will achieve success
success in the long term so
so the elephant is very emotionally
emotionally driven and wants to do
do things and achieve things now like
like look at that beautiful cake over
over there I want to eat that cake
cake right now but the writer is sitting
sitting on the elephant says hey if
if you eat that cake maybe you're
you're you know it might taste good
good right now but if you're going
going to eat that cake you're gonna
gonna break your diet that kind of
of thing
of thing so
so we've got these two different forces
forces in our minds and they're pulling
pulling on us every day now
now each of these forces also has
has a drawback or a couple of drawbacks
drawbacks
drawbacks so
so the elephant is very good about
about moving forward if it wants to
to do something but it might not be
be taking us in the right direction
direction and the rider also contend
contend to overthink things too much
much
much so
so if we have too much information
information if there's too many things
things to think about then
then the rider can get confused the
the rider can think like oh no I got
got
got know
know what to do anymore because I
I have too many options a really good
good example of this is now I was
was actually explaining so i went
went to a waiting out here a friend
friend of mine got married here in
in Japan a foreigner marrying a Japanese
Japanese woman and this is just a
a just an interesting thing about
about Japanese culture that you might
might not know about already if you
you know about it anyway so
so one of the things that's big in
in Japan is when you go to an actual
actual wedding people typically give
give cash to the company or to the
the couple i should say not the company
company but people bring small envelopes
envelopes and have maybe like an american
american dollars it might be like
like two or three hundred dollars
dollars worth of cash in that so people
people typically in America they would
would give like an actual present
present or people would have an online
online or some kind of wedding registry
registry at a store which means like
like hey we're gonna go to the store
store and we want a toaster and something
something else into something else
else because we're moving into a new
new house and then you can go online
online look through the gift registry
registry pick a particular product
product or whatever that you'd like
like to get for the couple and then
then you can buy them that thing it's
it's actually really interesting system
system just for doing that but in
in Japan it's kind of a pain in the
the ass or maybe I just see it that
that way because I'm a foreigner but
but when you're giving that cash to
to people then they have to give you
you back something that's about half
half the price of that thing or the
the equivalent in cash of half of
of the value of that name so
so there's a lot of really calculating
calculating the amount of something
something and then figuring out how
how to give it and that's why people
people give cash because it's really
really easy to figure out okay i gave
gave this person a hundred dollars
dollars so I'm expecting like fifty
fifty dollars back something like
like that
like that now
now this may sound really odd if you're
you're not familiar with this kind
kind of gift giving culture but it
it really drives japan so everybody
everybody going around giving gifts
gifts to each other making sure everybody
everybody is like kind of well balanced
balanced in a way so people get things
things from each other give things
things to other people and I've actually
actually had a gift at my house it
it like went to one family came to
to a different family and actually
actually came back to my house not
not that long after that that was
was pretty it was a little bit embarrassing
embarrassing but it's pretty funny
funny at the same time it goes to
to show you something this is a really
really great English expression as
as well it goes to show that it just
just means that you know it's an interesting
interesting example of something so
so it goes to show that it's just
just an interesting way of doing life
life or that maybe even some people
people have like a present that they're
they're getting that they don't really
really want so they regift that present
present to somebody else anyway
anyway I'm going off on like tangent
tangent after tangent after tangent
tangent but so I'm talking about like
like these gift-giving things that
that because people like let's say
say I were to give a present an actual
actual physical presence of someone
someone who's getting married in japan
japan now they would have to look
look up the price of that thing online
online and then give me back something
something else but now what you're
you're seeing more of these companies
companies that create an actual catalog
catalog of gifts that they give to
to people as a present for the wedding
wedding
wedding so
so all of the guests that come to
to the wedding they get up little
little catalog so they maybe get some
some sweets or something but they
they get a catalog that lets them
them select a you know whatever item
item they like to get its of an approximate
approximate value within a certain
certain range so like fifty dollars
dollars or a hundred dollars something
something like that so
so the wedding couple would pay that
that company and then all of the people
people they come to the come to the
the wedding would be able to get the
the catalog and then send off like
like hey I'd like to get this thing
thing that's in the catalog but the
the problem with the catalog again
again is that you've got it it's
it's like this thick you've got maybe
maybe like 200 300 pages in there
there of little things that you could
could buy and it's just like it's
it's overwhelming you
you have too many things to choose
choose and then people sit around
around and like you're wasting all
all your time like do I want the steak
steak knives or do i want the plate
plate or do I want this other animal
animal character thing is crazy and
and so people have all these things
things and it's it's basically going
going against what we would want for
for especially something that like
like I mean who cares if you're getting
getting steak knives or whatever for
for a wedding present like just you
you know give me whatever if you don't
don't even care you shouldn't be giving
giving me anything anyway you're the
the one getting married that's
that's a whole separate issue but
but it's just a perfect example of
of when you have too many options
options
options this
this is the rider becoming like really
really excited about that in the rider
rider the writer of the elephant is
is thinking wow ok I've got all these
these choices now I've got to think
think about this like should i do
do this or that or this other thing
thing and they're thinking about too
too many things and they don't go
go anywhere and
and this is what happens to a lot
lot of people in life when they're
they're thinking about well maybe
maybe I'm interested in a lot of different
different things i like this hobby
hobby and that interest in this job
job and that other thing but I never
never can make any progress on anything
anything because I don't know what
what to pick I
I can't really actually make a decision
decision about something and
and so the book is talking about how
how we can actually make that switch
switch and actually make it such that
that you can get the elephant and
and the rider to work together such
such that you can have something nice
nice and easy now
now what's interesting about the book
book is that you know just thinking
thinking about it from my own life
life for getting it especially kind
kind of learning it for like I said
said myself but really to help learners
learners
learners even
even though I'm a learner of Japanese
Japanese myself but specifically to
to help my learner's make that decision
decision because a lot of people they
they they want to learn they want
want to become a better English speaker
speaker but at the same time like
like the elephant is like like I don't
don't really feel like studying right
right now I don't feel like doing
doing this I don't want it again it's
it's talking about the feeling of
of how you get excited about doing
doing something and so thinking about
about that idea I actually spent a
a lot of time not just making lessons
lessons but really more thinking about
about how to help people get the elephant
elephant and the rider to think about
about something and actually work
work together to achieve the same
same goal and so I'm actually coming
coming out with a video and not that
that long thats it's actually really
really interesting idea talking about
about the fluency profile of a native
native English speaker vs and non-native
non-native speaker and why they have
have these different fluency profile
profile so i'll be talking about that
that in an upcoming video so look
look forward to seeing that in the
the future but this is a specific
specific idea where i really want
want to help people get that alignment
alignment there the elephant and the
the rider moving in the same way and
and one of the most important points
points the book talks about in this
this is the thing i wanted to focus
focus on just quickly though in this
this video is about the mindset that
that you have for being able to change
change now typically people are of
of two different mindsets the first
first one in a mindset is just the
the way you think it's how you see
see the world but the first mindset
mindset is I believe that I am fixed
fixed in my personality or my habits
habits or the abilities that I have
have and the other kind of personality
personality type or the mindset that
that people have is I can learn how
how to do something different i can
can actually improve so if you have
have a fixed mindset versus a mindset
mindset that allows you to change
change or believes you can change
change the people that believe they
they can change are typically or more
more likely the ones that actually
actually succeed so I try to get people
people to think about things in a
a different way even
even though most people are interested
interested in hey let me come watch
watch the English youtube
youtube video about like teach me
me these particular phrases and it's
it's great to learn a bunch of phrases
phrases but if you're watching this
this video right now you're one of
of the few smart learners that's actually
actually interested in learning the
the deeper information that will help
help you expand and improve your English
English fluency much better after
after you understand these deeper
deeper things although the learning
learning of the phrases and all that
that becomes really easy so
so anyway hopefully I'm teaching you
you a few phrases as well but this
this kind of thing the
the way of thinking this is a really
really important thing as far as improving
improving your English so when you're
you're thinking about having the mindset
mindset of a fixed person like whoa
whoa can I guess like I can't do that
that like I can't learn a language
language writing bad at math or other
other things like that it first you
you can switch to be more of a person
person that can actually change their
their mindset or believe that they
they can do something then you're
you're much more likely to improve
improve so i mentioned earlier about
about that this new video that I'm
I'm creating that's talking about
about the different English fluency
fluency profiles and one of the most
most important things you can do for
for learning English is it's kind
kind of it's kind of a tricky thing
thing to to a to explain but i'll
i'll try to do it quickly and make
make it as clear as possible so the
the first thing is that most non-native
non-native English speakers are learning
learning the traditional way of getting
getting fluid which is basically preparing
preparing them for tests and not actually
actually helping them do a lot of
of the things and develop a lot of
of the habits that are required to
to become a fluent speaker so you've
you've got the native English speaker
speaker over here that has really
really strong habits and every area
area like being able to speak confidently
confidently or understand native English
English speakers being able to use
use grammar automatically etcetera
etcetera and then you've got somebody
somebody that learn the traditional
traditional way where maybe they know
know a couple of words and phrases
phrases they can understand a little
little bit and they can read and write
write well but they're still missing
missing a lot of the habits that actually
actually help them become fluent speakers
speakers now because of that you have
have a limited number of habits and
and people have been trained in a
a way so non-native speakers who are
are learning English have been trained
trained kind of the best way to put
put it is that like they've learned
learned to only learn English and
and in a particular way so they read
read more books or maybe they they
they get they try to learn like a
a few more vocabulary words something
something like that but because they
they already know a whole bunch of
of those things they don't notice
notice much improved it
it and this is the real the tricky
tricky thing here about motivating
motivating you to actually achieve
achieve fluency and want to do more
more
more so
so you have to do something that gives
gives you noticeable improvement in
in your English and that's why I'm
I'm always trying to think of new
new strategies new ways of improving
improving because if you don't see
see the improvement you
you don't feel the improvement and
and then you don't want to move on
on and you don't want to improve and
and you lose your motivation to study
study so if you if you let's say you
you already know like you know 10,000
10,000 words if you learn two or three
three more than that overall improvement
improvement doesn't mean anything
anything to you because you don't
don't feel any different but let's
let's say your confidence is incredibly
incredibly weak if you can double
double that confidence with learning
learning just maybe like two or three
three tips then that's going to help
help you see dramatic improvement
improvement in your fluency and that
that like kind of cascades like a
a waterfall it cascades and all the
the other pieces of your fluency all
all the other habits that you need
need to develop and that's what really
really gets you motivated to learn
learn
learn so
so if you can keep things simple this
this is what you're doing to control
control the rider and then you keep
keep things motivating this is what
what you do to control the elephant
elephant and that's how you keep moving
moving and get fluent faster so
so if you're the kind of person that
that maybe you thinking gee I probably
probably can't get fluent I don't
don't really know how to do something
something and it doesn't matter if
if it's not just for fluency it's
it's for anything else in life but
but if you have an idea or a mindset
mindset about yourself that you think
think
think well
well I guess I can't do this i'm stuck
stuck here doing that you have to
to first understand that you really
really do have the ability to change
change because if you think about
about a baby like a baby doesn't know
know how to be a professional basketball
basketball player or even a fluent
fluent English speaker of a particular
particular language so a baby is born
born and the baby has to learn how
how to do those things so baby learns
learns how to fix a car as they get
get older not like an actual baby
baby but as they grow their learning
learning and developing things and
and if you remember that idea that
that you weren't born with any of
of the skills you have now you have
have to develop all those then that
that means you can also take the skills
skills that you have now and develop
develop them or even further or even
even developed completely new habits
habits and skills and so that's what
what I'd like to encourage you to
to do think about the things that
that you're most struggling with and
and develop those because those are
are the things that are going to get
get you fluent much faster because
because
because seeing
seeing the improvement or the difference
difference between how you were before
before and how you are now is really
really it's really obvious and that
that becomes more motivating for you
you but if you try to do the things
things that you've already done to
to get fluent like learning more words
words or buying yet another textbook
textbook when you've already got many
many you probably got too many bookshelves
bookshelves a full of textbooks and
and maybe even books that you've never
never even read or maybe just open
open very quickly and don't look at
at them anymore so
so focus on the things that are going
going to give you obvious improvement
improvement that motivate you and
and then that's going to be the thing
thing that really helps you get .
. faster anyway i'm already getting
getting you to information too much
much information i guess i should
should say but this is a book called
called switch a highly entertaining
entertaining book i guess i'll put
put a link in the description or maybe
maybe all this I
I think there's actually an audio
audio version of you can probably
probably find right here on YouTube
YouTube but if you look for that just
just by Chip and Dan heat so it's
it's a book called switch anyway
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