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- Hey, Chris, here from IELTS Advantage.
And today I'm talking to you from the Angkor Complex,
which includes Angkor Wat,
and I'm gonna teach you about a couple
of really important principles that are gonna help you
with your IELTS preparation.
So these principles that I'm about to teach you
are the most important principles
that you need to understand
if you want to get the, IELTS score that you need.
And I've been here for a couple of days
and there's a few very interesting facts
about the Angkor Complex and about Angkor Wat
that relate to these key principles.
So I'm gonna teach you these amazing facts about Angkor Wat
and the Angkor Complex and this is gonna help you understand
exactly what you need to do and not do
if you want to be successful on the IELTS test.
So the first amazing fact about Angkor Wat
is it took 30 to 40 years to complete the construction.
So if you consider that in the 12th century
the average life expectancy
for most people was around 50 years,
most people who designed and built that temple
would never actually see it completed.
And this brings us on to the first key principle.
So the first key principle that enables students
to be successful is something we call Find Your Why
which is all about motivation.
The students who really struggle with motivation
and struggle to get the score that they need,
they focus just on their score.
So they'll email us and say, "I want to improve my score."
The students who do it differently that are successful
and have unlimited motivation,
are students who find their why,
which means they find a why are they doing it?
Which is normally outside or bigger than themselves.
So for example, we will get students who want to move
to a different country so that they can give their children
and their grandchildren a better life.
Those students have unlimited motivation
and will work very, very hard.
Or we have students who are doctors or software engineers.
They want to build something or help people.
And again, they have unlimited motivation.
If you Find Your Why something outside of yourself,
something that makes the world or other people better
then you will have unlimited motivation
similar to these guys who built these things
and inscribed these carvings.
They didn't do it
because they wanted to do this specific carving.
They wanted to impress their king.
They wanted to build an empire
so they had thousands of people with unlimited motivation.
The next principle is related to a study
we conducted a few years ago
and we asked students that failed to get the score
that they needed why they failed the test.
And we looked at what they did to try and really understand
what is the number one reason why students fail.
And the number one reason why students fail,
like more than 95% of the students
had this one thing in common,
they all booked the test before they were ready.
That sounds really, really obvious,
but to understand that is quite important
because the students who think about things
the opposite way, so they don't book the test.
What they do is they focus on improving their score
and getting better and getting to the level that they need
and then they book the test,
nearly a hundred percent of those students pass.
Nearly a hundred percent of the students who book the test
before they're ready fail.
So this key principle is all about patience.
The students that have patience
get the scores that they need
the students that have no patience
don't get the scores that they need.
So the next unbelievable fact about these temples
is even though it took a lot of patience,
30 or 40 years to construct Angkor Wat
when you compare that to the famous cathedrals in Europe,
they took two to 300 years to construct.
For example, Notre Dame and Paris took I think 187 years.
So how were the Khmer people in the 12th century
able to construct these fabulous unbelievable temples
in a fraction of the time that it took Europeans
to construct their grand cathedrals?
Well, it's really to do with the location of Siem Reap.
So it is located on some of the most fertile land
in the world
and it only took one farmer to produce enough rice
and enough crops to feed four to five other people.
And there were 1 million people
living in the Siem Reap area.
When you compare that with Paris or London at the time,
Paris and London only had between 20 and 50,000 people
compared to 1 million people.
So because they had this fertile land
it didn't take so many people to farm the land
which freed people up from the farm land
and allowed them to become specialists.
So allowed them to be builders and carvers
and artists and things that they couldn't really do
in places that required all of this intensive farmland.
So when you have specialists, experts,
people who really know what they're doing
they're the best in the world of what they do,
they can do amazing work
but they can also do it very, very quickly.
So there it is.
If you have a strong why, you have patience
and you work with real experts,
you can achieve amazing things
just like Khmer did with Angkor Wat just there.
And if you don't believe me, think about doing the opposite
which is what most students do.
Most students have no real why,
they have very little motivation.
So they give up easily.
Most of them have no patience
so they try and use quick tips and hacks
and tricks that never work.
And most of them aren't prepared to work with experts
because they cost a little money
and therefore they choose to work with people
who don't know what they're doing
and they give them the wrong advice and they fail.
So again, know your why, have patience,
and work with experts.
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and we'll do our best to help you out.
Hope you enjoyed that video.
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Thank you.
- To be with you.
- Hi everyone, this is Moong, he's-
- My name is (speaking in foreign language).
- He's been my guide for the last two days
and he's taken me all around the Angkor Complex.
If you need a guide, get in contact with Moong.
He's going to put his WhatsApp in the description
or I'll put it in for him.
He speaks English and Spanish.
So if you need any help.
And you'll gimme 50% commission for anyone?
(men laughing)
No, this is not sponsored or anything like that.
He's just a very, very good guide.
So if you need any help- - Thank you, thank you.
With anything around Siem Reap, this is the man.
- Yes. All right.
- Thank you very much. Thank you very much.