hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's number one English Fluency Guide and it
is a pleasure to see you in the studio
again with me today I'm going to talk
about something it should be a very
quick video but I just wanted to make
one important point about learning
English or trying to be successful at
anything else you're doing if you watch
the previous video it was maybe like a
week ago or something I don't remember
when I released it exactly but if you
watch that video you'll see how I'm
talking about trying to approach
something in an indirect way but I
talked in that video a little bit about
kind of knowing or getting the signs for
something that you're doing something
correct so you're knowing that you're
actually making progress because often
people will be improving in some way but
maybe they think they aren't so this is
something especially important when
you're trying to get fluent and it's a
long process especially for many people
and if you're especially taking a long
time you're not really learning the
things like the correct conversational
speech that you need to learn or
developing your skills that can really
really really take a long time if you
try to learn a language the traditional
way anyway all I want to talk about in
this video related to that one is the
idea of a fractal a fractal now if you
if you've ever just a very common
example if you've ever looked at a piece
of broccoli you ever looked at a piece
of broccoli it's like you got this you
know piece of broccoli like this and
it's got all a little it's like a little
mini tree you know you know what
broccoli looks like but when he let's
say you take a piece of broccoli and you
cut off a piece this piece right here it
actually looks like a very tiny person
or not a tiny person a tiny piece of the
larger piece of broccoli so this is an
idea of a fractal and a fractal just
means like the the part is really a
smaller version of the whole and you can
make it bigger and bigger and bigger and
you still get the same thing so even you
take a regular tree so a piece of
broccoli is pretty small but a regular
tree is well the idea is you just have a
branch with a bud on it and when it
starts out it's very small you only get
maybe like one or two more little
branches but then you get buds on these
then you get two more branches on each
of these things and then two more like
that so this isn't this is a fractal
idea where you have the same thing
repeating itself or you can see it on a
large scale or a small scale as well now
why is this idea so important why should
you care about this because when you
think about like life in fractals or the
the things you're doing to try to
achieve a certain result often you can
look at a very very small example of
what you're doing and see if that
example itself is actually supporting
you or helping you or getting you closer
to your goal or if it's not so let's say
I'm a student and I have my textbook in
front of me and I'm sitting and reading
that thing and then I go out maybe to a
party or something like that but I don't
open my mouth to speak with anyone at
that party
that party so I learned some words I'm improving
I'm learning more but then I go out and
don't open my mouth at a party so we can
take that simple example and see did you
really make any progress in your
speaking ending in that example you did
not so you learned more which is what a
lot of people do they learn a lot of
things especially learning a lot of you
know vocabulary or grammar or other
things like that but are you actually
using that thing so this is an example
of where you can you can kind of take
this example and then and then blow that
up and make it bigger into a whole into
like many years of how people study the
language so many people study like this
for years and the important key here is
if you if you learn something and you
don't go out and practice it with people
and you don't improve like you're gonna
do that for years and you're still not
gonna get more of that result so you
don't get any result doing this doing
this same thing for longer for more time
you like doing it for years is not going
to help you improve even more so for all
the things that you do whether it's you
know something like you're improving you
know your language learning or you're
trying to improve
or you know whatever you could be
learning you're trying to learn how to
play the guitar or build a business or
something like that I can try something
in a business and if it doesn't work
like if I if I can't sell my idea to one
person it's probably not a good idea to
go try to sell that idea to like a
thousand people at one time so I mean
maybe one person isn't interested but if
I know like if I know this person wants
to learn English and I say hey I can
help you learn English but they don't
care about that
then there's a problem with my message
and I know that again it's that same
fractal idea of just a very tiny single
example just like the tree where we've
got you know like the branches coming
off here we can look at this tree just
one example to see what happens and then
we know if this works then we're going
to get this really big you know thing
over here so the same thing this is why
you know I'll like talk about a message
with a few people and see if they like
it and I'll say well you know how does
this work and I'll talk with them like
there's this messaging work and it's not
just for business but for anything like
that if I'm talking with people again
like my my the way I practice speaking a
language I know that if I try using
something in one way I'm going to get
like a little bit of improvement and so
I can guess from that that if I improved
a little bit by doing something whatever
that is then I know if I do it more I'm
going to get a lot more improvement so
this is how you can look at the
different parts of the way you're
practicing right now and see what's
actually working for you and what's not
and if you want to get fluent faster you
stop doing the things that don't work
and start doing more of the things that
do does that make sense so this idea of
like kind of fractal learning what I
call fractal learning it just means
looking at the individual things that
you do looking at examples of those
things seeing if they work on a very
small scale because you really can see
improvement even if it's only a tiny bit
of improvement then you'll know ok if I
try this with more people or on a bigger
scale I'm probably going to see even
more improvement does that make sense
so hopefully this idea is powerful for
you just take a minute or you know an
hour or however long to think about what
you're doing with your English if you're
learning by learning with a textbook but
you don't actually practice speaking
then I recommend you stop doing that
because just one example of this is not
going to help you improve so 10,000
examples of it are not going to help you
improve any better does that make sense
anyway hopefully you've enjoyed this
message this is what I use just for
myself for anything I do not just for
language learning but for business or
for you know talking with people and we
do this because there are patterns in
the world there are patterns in the way
we work with people and we know that if
we can do a small thing well that if we
try to do it a little bit better we can
do something maybe bigger than that and
it's going to do bigger and better
things for us as well
so hopefully you enjoyed this message if
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that
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where it's actually working for you so
comment down below let me know something
that you specifically feel is improving
your fluency or your communication
skills or even if it doesn't have
anything to do with English lessons at
all I'm really interested in to know
what else you're kind of learning about
so you don't have to just talk about
English on this channel this is again
like this idea of fractal learning it's
it's useful for all sorts of things
really for everything again that idea of
fractal learning itself is useful for
everything so I know it's useful for
learning English and it's going to be
useful for you know fixing cars or doing
all sorts of things like that anyway if
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