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another advanced listening practice
practice lesson in this lesson series
series as always I will be speaking
speaking quickly and more quickly
quickly than I do normally but people
people have asked me is this the way
way even at my quick speed is that
that the way i actually speak well
well yes and no so it's usually the
the speed that I speak but i try to
to speak just a little bit more clearly
clearly so you can understand what
what I'm saying but
but in general my speech is actually
actually quite clear and most people
people don't have any problem understanding
understanding the native speakers
speakers or non-native speakers and
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anyway let's get into the lesson I
I want to talk about something in
in this video thats i dont its kind
kind well I guess everything I talk
talk about is a little bit different
different I don't you know try not
not to do a typical lesson where I'm
I'm just you know . this and things
things on a whiteboard or whatever
whatever talking about them but i'd
i'd like to talk about psychology
psychology in the mind a lot i think
think about that a lot actually because
because it's such an important thing
thing no matter what you're doing
doing whether you're talking about
about fluency or trying to get fluent
fluent and you know like whatever
whatever that happens to be whatever
whatever your your interest happens
happens to be and so this one is about
about kind of listening to that little
little voice in the back of your mind
mind or in the back of your head during
during your heart or whatever you
you call it wherever you think that
that voice is so in native conversational
conversational situations people talk
talk about listening to that little
little voice which could be your conscience
conscience now your conscience conscience
conscience is maybe that thing that
that says hey like you shouldn't steal
steal that candy or something like
like that so it's like the kind
of
of typical
typical in American idea you've got
got like the good angel on your shoulder
shoulder and then the bad little devil
devil it's saying like had knew that
that bad thing and again the good
good angels like no no don't do that
that bad thing you should do the good
good thing something like that now
now what I'm talking about is not
not about that it's not about like
like sure you a do a good thing or
or a bad thing it's
it's more kind of trusting yourself
yourself and developing a sense for
for when you should take action or
or how you should take action how
how you should make decisions about
about things because as people like
like some people like they really
really like to have as much information
information as possible before making
making a decision about something
something so they really want to know
know okay if I do this then this thing
thing will happen and then that thing
thing will happen something like that
that but most often in life things
things don't work that way so maybe
maybe you think something or you have
have all this planning and you prepare
prepare all of these things but then
then when it finally happens like
like it doesn't actually work that
that way
that way so
so this could be like sports is a
a really great example of that maybe
maybe you do all this training and
and spend all this time planning how
how you should do something with that
that was the plan for a basketball
basketball game is for an example
example and then you get into the
the game and then the other team has
has been thinking about how to defeat
defeat that how to do something different
different to that are different from
from that and then in that situation
situation you think wow like i did
did all this planning and then the
the thing that I wanted it didn't
didn't happen the way I thought it
it would
it would so
so what I'm what I'm talking about
about here again again it's not like
like should you do something good
good or should you do something bad
bad it's more how do you make good
good decisions about things in life
life when maybe you don't have all
all the answers or even if you do
do you do think you know what's going
going to happen about something even
even mean you really can know like
like for sure because nobody really
really knows about the future but
but how do you make good decisions
decisions about things even when you
you don't have access to that information
information so
so this is something I've just been
been thinking about for my own personal
personal life and even though it's
it's not a specific english learning
learning thing it's
it's helpful as a learner because
because it kind of tells you whether
whether you're doing the right thing
thing when you're listening to something
something or if you're studying in
in a right in the right way for
for you whatever that happens to be
be so for me when i first came to
to Japan and I was thinking about
about learning japanese and I was
was in a Japanese classroom i think
think i went to two or three lessons
lessons before I quit the class because
because i didn't like doing it and
and I could feel it very quickly when
when I was in there for the first
first time that like it wasn't for
for me and it's not because I was
was uncomfortable or something like
like that I was just like this is
is not how I should be learning this
this wasn't inches wasn't for me and
and because i listen to that voice
voice I got out and then started thinking
thinking about my own way to learn
learn I mean after struggling for
for a long time and I was like the
the reason i was in the class in the
the first place is because I tried
tried to learn by myself and it didn't
didn't work out so I thought okay
okay maybe I should go to a class
class and that didn't work out either
either it was basically the same lessons
lessons that everybody else was using
using but just in a classroom and
and so it was really boring and the
the typical thing that people do to
to learn languages anyway
anyway I'm glad I did because I hate
hate it so much that I decided to
to create my own system in my own
own way of learning after that and
and that's why i do what i do now
now
now but
but anyway this isn't about language
language learning this is about making
making decisions and how you can listen
listen to that little voice in the
the back of your head it's like yeah
yeah this is a good idea and you kind
kind of know like something might
might be difficult but maybe you've
you've had that experience in your
your own life as well where you think
think
think yeah
yeah like this is a little bit tricky
tricky to do I don't know if it's
it's the best idea but something tells
tells you like something tells you
you and this is often something that
that native speakers will say like
like something tells me this is a
a good idea something
something tells me this is a good
good idea so you don't have a good
good reason or you can't really explain
explain it but it's like somehow you
you just know you just know and native
native speakers will say this also
also like I don't really know how
how it happened but I just knew I
I just know right now so whatever
whatever that is you
you can talk about listening to that
that little voice in the back of your
your head and I would encourage you
you to do that more so
so no human really has access to the
the future anyway and often our plans
plans are really not happening the
the way we would like them to happen
happen
happen so
so why not try listening to that little
little voice in the back of your head
head or in heart
heart or whatever you want to call
call it people call it listening to
to their heart something but when
when you do that you begin training
training yourself actually to make
make better decisions by listening
listening to that little voice now
now obviously i still use you know
know logic and reasoning when I'm
I'm like okay should I make this decision
decision or that thing or choose one
one thing over another I
I kind of think about it and a friend
friend of mine when I was in high
high school is kind of like a story
story from them but he gave me like
like an actual like an interesting
interesting tip that can kind of train
train you to do that sort of thing
thing
thing so
so what he did was when he wanted
wanted to make a decision and he was
was as native speakers will say on
on the fence about it like imagine
imagine you have a fence between two
two different yards or two different
different alternatives and you're
you're on the fence you don't know
know whether to go that way or that
that way something like that so
so when you're on the fence about
about something flip a coin and then
then decide like okay heads is this
this decision and tails is that decision
decision
decision so
so you flip a coin and then right
right when the coin lands and you
you look at it so you flip the coin
coin in
coin in ok
ok I'm going to check with the coin
coin is listen to your first thought
thought when you look at that and
and most often you will you will like
like feel like I like a little bit
bit disappointed about one or like
like kind of happy about the other
other something like that so
so you don't use the coin to actually
actually make the decision you use
use the coin to kind of kind of force
force you to think about something
something or to activate that part
part of your brain that can make decisions
decisions in that way and most of
of the time we know whether we should
should be making a decision kind
kind of like how we feel about it
it but I just want you to be very
very careful to say like maybe something
something is uncomfortable for you
you so you shouldn't do it that's
that's not what I'm talking about
about I'm talking about even
even if something is uncomfortable
uncomfortable you have a feeling inside
inside you that's like yes
yes like this is actually something
something I should be doing this is
is a good idea so
so for whatever like you know me starting
starting this business to help people
people learn English like it's like
like yeah it could be difficult or
or I could fail or look at me I'm
I'm like making videos and people
people all over the world watch these
these what if I have like something
something in my eye or I look stupid
stupid or what there's
there's lots of things that could
could go wrong with this but I had
had that feeling I
I just knew it was a good thing to
to do and if you can think about things
things in the same way maybe use that
that coin flipping example that my
my friend told taught me about it
it might help you to see things in
in that way as well so
so what especially when people like
like you really want a lot of information
information or you just feel like
like I I don't know what to do like
like some people have maybe a lot
lot of different interests especially
especially young people when they're
they're thinking okay I like dancing
dancing and sports and writing and
and all these other things like my
my mom
my mom which
which one do i choose i don't know
know which one I should be doing like
like flip a coin or just just sit
sit there and think about like which
which of these is the activity that
that I'm really really enjoying and
and you will get a sense for that
that but it may take some time to
to develop that sense but it's something
something that I've been trying to
to develop you know like it's almost
almost like the sense for choosing
choosing things in the right way to
to change the sense the sense for
for choosing things so you could call
call it again that the little voice
voice in the back of your head or
or if you call your heart or whatever
whatever that thing is but
but the point is that you should be
be using that more because nobody
nobody nobody can know about the future
future and nobody can perfectly anticipate
anticipate when something is going
going to happen and then the second
second part of this is that after
after you've made a choice like after
after you you kind of listen to your
your heart even about something small
small like maybe a little thing like
like should I go to the zoo today
today or should I go to the park and
and you just listen to the feeling
feeling like I like something tells
tells me i just know that going to
to the zoo is a good idea i don't
don't know why but then maybe you
you go to the zoo and then something
something really great happens to
to you and you think oh like wow so
so that begins to train you like wow
wow like I listened and then i went
went there and i was rewarded for
for that
for that now
now I may not work all the time but
but you develop over over time like
like for myself anyway I attend to
to make good decisions most of the
the time and people respect me like
like making good decisions about my
my life like when I was younger I
I maybe it didn't make such great
great decisions about my life but
but I tend to do that quite well now
now that I'm older anyway
anyway I'm just encouraging you to
to do that today in this advanced
advanced listening practice lesson
lesson
lesson just
just because again nobody knows about
about the future so why not try listening
listening to that to give you kind
kind of something even better they
they may be we don't quite understand
understand how it works but it does
does work in many situations it's
it's certainly been working for me
me and I'm happy to continue developing
developing it further until it stops
stops working for me but I don't think
think that will probably be happening
happening anyway have a fantastic
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