hi there I'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide is a pleasure to welcome
welcome you to another advanced listening
listening practice lesson as
as always I will be speaking a bit
bit more quickly I'm
I'm a slow down at some point in this
this video like I usually do but in
in general i will be speaking much
much more quickly than I usually do
do in my previous lessons in another
another video series on the English
English anyone . com youtube channel
channel so if you are new to the channel
channel and your English is pretty
pretty good but you have trouble understanding
understanding faster english i recommend
recommend you go and watch those other
other videos first this
this video is actually connected with
with episode 14 in this series talking
talking about the first rule of fluency
fluency so this one will be talking
talking about the second rule of fluency
fluency
fluency but
but if you again are not ready for
for this level of speed and i'm not
not even speaking very quickly and
and I'll get into that in just a second
second but if you're not ready for
for that again go back and watch those
those other videos but if you are
are
are let's
let's begin the lesson so I had actually
actually a great response from that
that first video or against the the
the 14th video in the series where
where i was talking about the first
first rule of fluency and a lot of
of people caught on so they caught
caught on to the fact they understood
understood or they grasp grasp something
something so they caught on to the
the fact that a lot of what I teach
teach is applicable not only for english
english learning or you know spanish
spanish learning or whatever it is
is you're trying to do but for learning
learning anything or for succeeding
succeeding at anything in life because
because I'm so I'm so big on principles
principles to be being on something
something means you're like a very
very proud supporter of that thing
thing you really like that thing a
a lot some very big on the focus on
on principles because a lot of students
students get caught up in like where's
where's the lesson tell me this vocabulary
vocabulary word tell me that vocabulary
vocabulary word and this is the same
same thing that happens in every industry
industry and all kind of share a little
little secret with you for people
people that teach things or other
other people that provide information
information you know it could be people
people selling books or anything but
but you know most people most people
people that sell things whatever that
that thing is it could be a video
video game a book movie or other things
things like that but especially information
information because it takes you no
no longer to digest longer to consume
consume and then this is really kind
kind of something different from a
a CD or a movie I mean does take a
a little bit of time with movies as
as well but often you'll see especially
especially with things where you have
have a couple of videos that you have
have to watch or a whole bunch of
of things like a book especially if
if you have to read most people will
will buy the book but then it will
will just sit on the shelf and most
most of the people there you
you know selling lessons are really
really disappointed about that myself
myself included so
so you know I'll have lessons that
that I sell or whatever just like
like other people and make some people
people actually go through the course
course and they'll be like wow the
the program really work for me and
and other people will just like not
not actually use it either they'll
they'll buy the course and do nothing
nothing with it or not go through
through the whole thing for whatever
whatever reason as good as I can make
make the program and we're always
always trying to make it better honestly
honestly it doesn't really matter
matter what the program is everyone
everyone that's you know selling information
information are trying to help people
people learn something every one that's
that's doing this complaint in the
the same problem and a lot of this
this is like people want you know
know the quick fix they want that
that that magic pill that's going
going to deliver them whatever solution
solution is they're looking for in
in the case of fluency it's like I
I let me just take the fluency pill
pill you know i would love to create
create the fluency pill i think that
that would be awesome I
I would take that myself but until
until we have something like that
that we're going to have to learn
learn the old-fashioned way which
which is studying you know the rules
rules and principles as well as the
the other physical well
well I guess maybe physical in the
the case of you know learning a new
new skill so something like basketball
basketball or learning how to play
play an instrument something like
like that but you're going to have
have to do the legwork the actual
actual grunt work the hard work of
of having to learn that particular
particular thing but the interesting
interesting thing is that if you focus
focus on the principles instead
instead of you know focusing on the
the little like it's it's kind of
of the difference between focusing
focusing on the strategy versus focusing
focusing on the tactics of something
something so strategy is the bigger
bigger picture idea and this is something
something I talk about a lot on the
the program and on the videos that
that I make here for YouTube but a
a lot of people aren't exactly interested
interested in that they want like
like give me the top five you
you know phrases to learn for whatever
whatever this thing give me the top
top eight or the top 10 or something
something like this and you know as
as humans were attracted to this kind
kind of information because it makes
makes you know what kind of confusing
confusing world simple so
so it makes sense but if you can be
be that kind of person one of the
the few so hopefully I may not get
get through to everyone who's watching
watching this video but I'm speaking
speaking to you right now don't worry
worry about anybody else i'm talking
talking to you right now and
and what I'd like you to do is actually
actually listened very carefully to
to what I'm about to say because the
the second rule of fluency is incredibly
incredibly important just to give
give a quick recap the video where
where i was talking about in episode
episode 14 of this very video series
series which you can find on youtube
youtube this is probably in the same
same playlist if you're watching this
this on a playlist right now if this
this is your own channel put this
this video in a playlist you have
have to because it's it's really going
going to be an important video anyway
anyway so that video I'm talking about
about the first rule of fluency and
and that is how you think determines
determines the results you get so
so I'm like let's say just very i
i guess a very average ordinary example
example would be like I go outside
outside and it starts raining so a
a you know something happens to me
me and then you know I have to decide
decide how i'm going to react to that
that thing now
now maybe a kind of angry person in
in general would have been no rainfall
rainfall and then he would get angry
angry about that but you can also
also choose to behave in a different
different way and i gave the example
example of being able to pick up a
a pen so I was holding a pen and showing
showing that if i can move this pen
pen with my mind imagine
imagine what else I can do with my
my mind because there's really no
no limitation it all depends on how
how you're thinking about something
something and from there if you can
can develop that idea if you can master
master that first idea then everything
everything else will fall into place
place
place now
now something else that's really really
really important and tied to that
that idea if you understand that idea
idea first and again I recommend you
you go back and watch that video if
if you haven't watched it already
already
already again
again that's episode 14 i'll put a
a link in the description for that
that but do go back and watch that
that video after you've seen this
this one if you have not seen that
that one already so
so the second rule of fluency again
again this is really important really
really really important and this is
is something that again it's translatable
translatable or its applicable to
to things outside of fluency so no
no matter what you're trying to do
do if you can follow this rule then
then you were like much more likely
likely to gain success or to achieve
achieve success to reach your goals
goals whatever they happen to be so
so whether it's fluency or beyond
beyond or anything again it doesn't
doesn't matter and
and we're all thinking about the principles
principles of success and how we apply
apply those in a different areas so
so I applied them as far as fluency
fluency is concerned but other people
people maybe they're teaching how
how to be a good writer how to be
be a good listener or you know whatever
whatever the skill happens to be but
but this principle here once
once you've figured out that I decide
decide how i can how I live or how
how I control my thoughts or whatever
whatever happens to me I i get to
to decide you know what I do for that
that because let's say you know it
it gets that you know the kind of
of basic laws of physics if something
something is pushing you know an object
object this way it has to move that
that way
that way so
so this is a very you know fundamental
fundamental law of physics and object
object will be moving this way if
if it's acted upon by another object
object but in the human mind it doesn't
doesn't have to work like that you
you could be pushed this way and you
you could get out of the way you can
can push back you could do something
something else there
there are lots of different things
things so again I'm just kind of going
going over and over about this because
because it's such an understanding
understanding of our excuse me such
such an important thing to understand
understand and that's why I want you
you to review it very carefully so
so the first rule of fluency is that
that you can you control your thoughts
thoughts you decide how you feel and
and how you react and that's what's
what's going to give you success no
no matter what happens to you can
can always you know I think about
about it in a different way or choose
choose to react in a different way
way something like that so go back
back and watch that video but after
after you've done that the second
second rule of fluency listen very
very carefully to this because it's
it's going to sound a little bit weird
weird if you're not kind of used to
to the way I talk or the way I think
think so the second rule of fluency
fluency as well as the secret to you
you know being able to succeed at
at whatever it is you want to do in
in life is to stumble forward you
you have to stumble forward if you
you want to succeed you have to stumble
stumble forward and I don't really
really know you know people kind of
of present this idea in different
different ways i don't really know
know of anybody that's like you know
know hey like a for stumbling forward
forward something like this but if
if you can think about the idea of
of forward motion so
so the idea of moving towards whatever
whatever your goal is the idea of
of forward motion but you combine
combine this with the idea of not
not exactly knowing how to do it so
so instead of walking forward you're
you're stumbling forward as an example
example let's say I'm walking like
like this and I I like tripped over
over a rock I'm stumbling over a rock
rock it just means to trip and like
like maybe I don't fall completely
completely on my face but I'm kind
kind of like you know stumbling a
a little bit what
what I want you to do and this is
is the exact same thing I do in my
my own life is to stumble forward
forward like there's just like rock
rock after rock after rock in front
front of you and you keep going you're
you're not trying to like run forward
forward you're stumbling forward stumbling
stumbling forward so
so you're stumbling over this rock
rock and you kind of fall over that
that rock - and like you're not exactly
exactly doing it perfectly but you're
you're making great progress and you
you know you're making great progress
progress because things are happening
happening to you and that's another
another kind of insight but i'll talk
talk about in this video but the idea
idea of stumbling forward means that
that even if you don't know exactly
exactly where you want to go you
you kind of you open up your mind
mind to letting kind of opportunities
opportunities happen to you as they
they are designed to happen to you
you based on how you think so as an
an example like I'll just you know
know talk very candidly and openly
openly about my own business and how
how its developed over the years so
so I've had this idea for a really
really long time about how i can actually
actually help the entire world learn
learn the English language from like
like the absolute zero to you know
know being able to understand highly
highly technical things and being
being able to understand other things
things like business or science or
or whatever but in a really easy to
to understand wait and
and you know as I've had these ideas
ideas and I've started to build different
different pieces of this structure
structure which will become a complete
complete thing and that's what english
english anyone will be and that's
that's why I created the name of English
English anyone because anybody can
can learn the language with the system
system i am building so
so when the whole thing is built you
you know it will be like a massive
massive structure that you could get
get in and pretty much any point and
and actually start getting fluid it
it wouldn't really matter where you
you started so
so when thinking about that I don't
don't really have you know like real
real business skills I didn't you
you know have like a college degree
degree in business or you know masters
masters or something like that any
any particular business degree I
I just had a desire to do that thing
thing and i started stumbling forward
forward figuring out how that would
would happen so I'm not walking forward
forward walking forward means you're
you're trying to be careful and you're
you're trying to decide exactly how
how you should move because you think
think you know exactly how something
something should happen now often
often in life you've
you've probably experienced this a
a number of times when you do something
something and then you notice like
like g it didn't happen the way I
I planned it would happen so maybe
maybe you were thinking something
something was going to happen in a
a certain way but he didn't actually
actually happen that it
it now in my case since I've been
been stumbling forward again I'm just
just trying to make progress without
without exactly knowing like number
number one where I should go but I'm
I'm not worried about doing it perfectly
perfectly because i know you know
know i can always come back and failures
failures or something that you know
know basically things that are temporary
temporary
temporary so
so and if you hear my daughter that's
that's my daughter screaming in the
the next room but hopefully she'll
she'll let me stumble forward through
through this video anyway to get back
back to the point so
so if we combine if we combine the
the ideas of not knowing where you're
you're going to go and
and even though you have a specific
specific if you have a specific outcome
outcome that you'd like to achieve
achieve and you don't know exactly
exactly how are you going to get there
there all you can do is really start
start stumbling forward you start
start making progress you start working
working towards something telling
telling other people about it and
and every at every point in my business
business we're like I've hate like
like a wall somewhere and I've needed
needed to grow I
I don't really stop and worry about
about it too much I just I just keep
keep kind of pushing forward and know
know that like because my desires
desires troll is so strong to build
build this like really powerful system
system that anybody can use to get
get fluent the people that will come
come into my life like my daughter
daughter
daughter the
the people that will come into my
my life will support that in a particular
particular way which I can't really
really decide how that's going to
to happen beforehand so I'm i think
think i'm a smart person but i know
know i'm not smart enough to understand
understand how all of these things
things are going to happen now I don't
don't know this is like being psychic
psychic or whatever but basically
basically I'm just open to the possibility
possibility of i have a particular
particular place I want to get to
to but I don't know exactly how I'm
I'm going to get there so I'm always
always keeping my eyes and ears open
open for opportunities and thinking
thinking like oh like this thing happens
happens to my life in a certain time
time in a certain way and i can tell
tell all this is happening because
because i'm going in the right direction
direction
direction so
so you've got kind of signposts all
all over the place if you're continuing
continuing to stumble for but you
you only see them if you're stumbling
stumbling forward if you're walking
walking forward you're
you're really making slow progress
progress and you don't know if you're
you're actually trying to do something
something you know working towards
towards your goal or not so
so it's really important that you
you start stumbling forward and start
start making decisions based on you
you know what youre your primary goal
goal is and if you don't have a primary
primary goal that you shouldn't be
be stumbling at all like they're you
you shouldn't be making any progress
progress until you really decide what
what it is you want to do now it doesn't
doesn't matter what that thing is
is and you could even have a small
small goal or you know whatever that
that thing is but
but you should always be you know
know combining these two ideas like
like and that's what the the second
second rule of fluency is so you have
have to have the not only the particular
particular place you want to go and
and in the case of affluent learner
learner or somebody that is learning
learning english language or whatever
whatever trying to get fluent you
you would want to be focusing on a
a specific reason why you're learning
learning the language to make the
the the poll of that goal what I call
call a magnetic goal and I've actually
actually talked about this i think
think in the the podcast series excuse
excuse me but I talked about magnetic
magnetic goals before and hopefully
hopefully my daughter is like magnetically
magnetically pulling me into the next
next room I'm gonna have to go attend
attend to her in a moment but if you
you think about these ideas the
the the strength of the goal that
that you have the stronger you can
can make that and this is why I talk
talk to students about like you know
know tell me a whole story about what
what fluency means to you like you
you can even do that in the comments
comments below don't just say i want
want to get fluent you want to get
get fluid for what do you want to
to do with that because if you say
say I want to get fluid that's the
the same thing as saying I want to
to get rich and that's just not a
a very powerful thing that the mind
mind can get excited about now
now your mind is a very powerful thing
thing and we saw that in the first
first or against the previous lesson
lesson where we were talking about
about the first rule fluency so if
if the mind is so powerful you have
have to give it something to attach
attach itself to and that's that ultimate
ultimate goal but then the second
second part of that is you have to
to start stumbling forward making
making progress we're even if you
you don't know exactly how something
something is going to happen is the
the goal that pulls you there and
and sends you in the right direction
direction
direction so
so you've got to have a great goal
goal and then trust yourself - -
- you know to be pulled to that goal
goal because your mind wants to help
help you it really does your mind
mind wants to set you up for success
success and all you have to do is
is give it a direction so
so once you do that you start moving
moving stumbling forward in my case
case like as soon as I've decided
decided I want to do this like I found
found a person who's going to help
help us like build our appt i found
found a guy who is able to do voiceover
voiceover recording i found a guy
guy who was able to help with writing
writing lessons and editing thing
thing
thing I
I found another person who is able
able to do is like a perfect example
example like a couple of days ago
ago I was talking with a friend of
of mine i was like pan I
I really want like a person is great
great with statistics and you know
know some other things like that in
in a day later a
a day later i got a facebook email
email from a friend of mine that's
that's like hey I know somebody that's
that's like you know looking for like
like exactly that kind of work something
something like that so again it's
it's not about like you would be if
if you could even call it like a synchronicity
synchronicity and this just means
means when you know things are synced
synced for you you know let's say
say you buy a new red car and you
you start noticing new red cars all
all over the place these things were
were already there all the time but
but you just didn't notice them until
until you started opening your mind
mind to that thing and so that's what
what these these two ideas the first
first rule of fluency which is having
having a particular goal in realizing
realizing that the mind is very powerful
powerful but you won't be able to
to connect to that thing until you
you start stumbling forward so the
the second rule of fluency is to start
start stumbling forward and what I'd
I'd like you to help you with that
that to help guide your mind and to
to you know help me with more things
things if I can create better lessons
lessons to help you achieve that goal
goal is in the comments in this video
video I'd like you to be like very
very descriptive actually tell me
me why you're trying to get fluent
fluent what do you want to get with
with it all the kinds of things like
like actually imagine your daily life
life with fluency what will you be
be doing what's the whole point of
of your learning I mean for my case
case I wanted to start speaking Japanese
Japanese fluently so i could interact
interact in the community i could
could build gardens and actually learn
learn how to do things in it you know
know what a deeper way in the community
community and so if you don't have
have something like that again it's
it's going to be more difficult without
without a specific goal to get yourself
yourself to that point so the second
second rule of fluency is you have
have to stumble forward and this means
means like you know you could potentially
potentially make a mistake you could
could do something but your mind is
is just so focused on pulling yourself
yourself to this goal that who cares
cares about like an individual mistake
mistake or whatever I make mistakes
mistakes all the time and see like
like these videos I make I got like
like my daughter in the background
background complaining about stuff
stuff i mean like my lighting system
system is you know I got a new lighting
lighting system it's like pretty cool
cool but I don't really know how it
it works properly but you think that's
that's stopping me from giving it
it a try
it a try hell
hell no so I want you to be thinking
thinking in the exact same way follow
follow both the first rule of fluency
fluency and the second rule fluency
fluency and the more you can do these
these things again having a goal and
and realizing that you have a mind
mind that's powerful enough to get
get you there if that goal is strong
strong enough and again you have to
to be very specific about what you
you want but then allowing yourself
yourself to follow that thing by stumbling
stumbling forward so you don't have
have to run don't be crazy and you
you don't have to walk either it's
it's not really going to get you there
there but you have to stumble forward
forward it's kind of like you're moving
moving forward in an almost dark room
room where you can really see what's
what's happening but it's not scaring
scaring you from moving forward well
well think about all these things
things are both of these two things
things and i really look forward to
to reading what you say in the comments
comments you know don't say i want
want to get full and actually take
take the time right at least like
like two or three paragraphs of something
something give me a long and detailed
detailed comment and make this the
the day that you really decide what
what you want whatever that happens
happens to be and
and again think about this they are
are you agrees with me always like
like yeah like yeah you know so she's
she's gonna have her goals and i'm
i'm going to be on her about that
that as well so whatever it is she
she wants to do hey figure out what
what that is and go do it but don't
don't let anything stop you from doing
doing that thing the only thing you
you have to decide is what you want
want
want well
well that's it for this lesson I hope
hope you have enjoyed learning about
about the second and again kind of
of a refresher for the first rule
rule of fluency go back and watch
watch that again i believe it is episode
episode 14 of the advanced listening
listening practice series but I look
look forward to seeing you in the
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worry about how many views this gets
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