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Welcome to a Calm English shadowing episode with Peter — a deep listening and pronunciation workout designed to help you speak more clearly, think more calmly, and build real confidence in English. In this slow English session, you will shadow 100 carefully written sentences based on Think for Yourself (Thibaut Maurice), focusing on rhythm, stress, clarity, and mental focus. This is perfect for shadowing practice, listening comprehension, slow listening, accent training, fluency building, and daily speaking routines.

Inside this episode you will practice:

• Shadowing and repetition with clean, calm pacing

• Strong B1–B2 sentence structure you can reuse in real conversations

• Powerful ideas about groupthink, cognitive bias, first principles, and personal values

• Vocabulary for describing independent thinking, social pressure, manipulation, and freedom

• A calm “mental reset” style that improves focus while you improve English

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Quick recap: This is a calm shadowing session with 100 sentences that trains your listening, pronunciation, and speaking confidence — while you explore the mindset of thinking for yourself.

⏱️ TIME STAMPS

00:00 – Calm intro + how to use this shadowing episode

01:10 – Shadowing Set 1: Autopilot and awareness

03:05 – Shadowing Set 2: The trap of groupthink

05:05 – Shadowing Set 3: Social pressure and pluralistic ignorance

07:00 – Shadowing Set 4: Cognitive filters and confirmation bias

09:05 – Shadowing Set 5: Availability heuristic and emotional thinking

11:00 – Shadowing Set 6: First principles and independent logic

13:05 – Shadowing Set 7: Information diet and protecting focus

15:10 – Shadowing Set 8: Humility and the expert trap

17:10 – Shadowing Set 9: Values and designing your operating system

19:10 – Final recap + goodbye from Peter

KEYWORDS

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