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Repetition Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge, Director of the Effortless English Club, here again with another

lesson, the mini-story for "Repetition with Intensity." Are you ready? Are you standing

strong, shoulders back, good posture? Deep breathing? Big smile, moving your body?

If not, do it right now. Because if you don't, I will kick you out of the Effortless English

Club, onto the street to cry and have a terrible life for the rest of your life. You don't

want that, so you better do it. So stand up, smile, peak state. Let's go! It's time for

English again. Let's Rock!

Alright our mini-story today is about Asher.

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Asher had a dream. He wanted to be the best guitarist in the world. He wanted to

be a rock'n'roll god.

Hm, interesting. Who wanted to be a rock'n'roll god?

Asher did, Asher wanted to be a rock'n'roll god.

What did he want to play? The drums?

No, not the drums, he wanted to play the guitar.

Did he want to be a good guitarist?

Hell, no, he didn't want to be a good guitarist. He wanted to be the best guitarist in the

world, a rock god.

What did he want?

He wanted to be the best guitarist in the world. He wanted to be a rock god.

Who wanted that?

Asher, Asher wanted that. Asher wanted to be the best guitarist in the world. Asher

wanted to be a rock god.

You know there's a problem. What's the problem?

Repetition Main Text

Hi this is AJ. Welcome to the seventh lesson. Let's begin. This one is called

"Repetition with Intensity." Intensity means power, concentrated power, really, is what it

means. Of course, repetition means doing something again and again and again and

again and again. So maybe this is the bad news or the good news, I don't know, but the

truth is to learn English, to learn any language, to learn any skill, to be a master you

have to have a lot of repetition. And this is something that a lot of people don't like and

they go "Oh my god, I'm bored. I don't want to listen to this again. I don't want to do

this again and again and again."

l'll give you a small example. I've recently started taking singing lessons and every

lesson we do the same thing. We do these scales, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,

nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Every single time. Every day, same scales, same exercises.

And anyone who wants to get really good at singing, and I do want to get good, has to

do this. You have to repeat. You can't just say "Oh, I already know this. I did it 10

times so l'm finished and let's do something new."

Unfortunately a lot of people have this idea with language learning for some reason.

Most people understand if you learn a sport you have to repeat the same basic actions

again and again and again. If you want to be great at basketball, you probably know

you have to practice dribbling, [which] means bouncing the ball, passing and shooting

the ball, again and again and again and again. Michael Jordan practiced these same

basic skills from a child until he finished his career. What, 20 years maybe, every day

practicing the same skills, again and again. And not just practicing, practicing with

emotion, practicing with power, practicing with energy, every day for 20 years or more.

We've already mentioned Tiger Woods a lot, same thing with golf. He practices the

same skills again and again and again and again, every single day, years and years and

years.

So why, when we're learning English or learning a language, do we say "Oh, I don't

want to study this any more, I already know it. I already know the present tense. I

already know these words. I already know this grammar. I already know this lesson."

What, maybe you listened to it 7 times, 5 times? It's not enough. We need a lot of

repetition, a lot of repetition with power, with intensity. Your whole life, that's why babies

learn so quickly and so well, that's why I'm a master of English and not a master of

Spanish. Because every day for 40 years I have been listening to English, the same

basic English.

When I was 5 years old I didn't tell my mom “Mom, I already know the past tense so

stop using it. Let's learn something more difficult now. I'm bored with the past tense."

Models Vocabulary Text

Hi this is AJ again and welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Models." Well, let's start

with that first word.

Role model, as I mentioned already in the main talk a role model is kind of a hero. It's

someone you want to imitate. You want to be the same as them. It's usually specific

though, it doesn't mean you want to be like them in everything, in every part of your life.

It's usually specific, in one part of your life you want to be like them. So maybe Donald

Trump, he's a very rich man for example, so you might say "Donald Trump is my role

model for business."

So you want to be rich like Donald Trump but maybe you don't want to be like Donald

Trump in other ways. Like he had a big divorce, for example, so maybe you don't want

your relationships to be like Donald Trump but you want your business to be like him.

So you say "He's my business role model." And it's the same with sports, if you play

golf then maybe Tiger Woods is your golf role model, but maybe you don't want your

personal life to be like Tiger Woods. So a role model usually has this idea of specific,

it's kind of a hero but just in a specific part of your life, or in a specific way.

The next word we're going to talk about is randomly, I mentioned the word randomly.

Randomly means by chance, it's not planned. So, for example, I said “I randomly chose

English lessons when I was a beginning teacher in the beginning." So randomly means

I just, by chance, I just picked a book and picked an exercise. I didn't have a plan. I

didn't have a clear, focused, organized reason. I just picked something and then l'd pick

something else and pick something else, just by chance. It was random.

Okay, I used the phrase bring back up, to bring something back up. To bring something

back up means to return it to a higher level. Bring back means return. So bring back

my book means return my book. So bring back up just means return up, return to a

higher level.

Okay, next, I used the word or the phrase actually, fast track. It's a very common, kind

of an idiom actually, common phrase, fast track. The fast track or a fast track is a

method or a situation where you are improving very quickly. So, for example, you have

two students are learning English, John and Jane. We might say John is learning

slowly but Jane is learning very quickly.

So we say Jane is on the fast track. On the fast track, it means she is improving very,

very fast. This is used in business sometimes, in careers. So, for example, in a

company if you are on the fast track it means you are going up, up, up, up, up in the

Hello, welcome to the mini-story for "Models." Are you ready to begin? Big smile!

Shoulders back, breathing deeply, moving your body? Let's go.

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Laura wanted to be a tri-athlete.

Who wanted to be a tri-athlete?

Laura, Laura wanted to be a tri-athlete.

What is a tri-athlete?

Well, a tri-athlete is a person who does three different sports, swimming, cycling...riding

a bicycle, and running, right? So tri means three, T-R-I, tri means three so three sports,

a three-sport athlete, swimming, cycling and running.

Did Laura want to swim, cycle and run?

Yes she did. She wanted to swim, she wanted to cycle and she wanted to run. She

wanted to be a tri-athlete.

Who wanted to be a tri-athlete?

Laura, Laura wanted to be a tri-athlete.

Did she want to be a normal tri-athlete?

Not Laura.

Laura wanted to be a superstar tri-athlete. In fact, she wanted to be the number

one tri-athlete in the world.

What kind of tri-athlete did she want to be?

A superstar tri-athlete, Laura wanted to be a superstar tri-athlete.

She wanted to win the Ironman race in Hawaii.

Hi this is AJ. Welcome to lesson number 6, today's topic "Models." Models are very

important, and by model I mean role model, not the models you see on magazines.

That's a different meaning. A role model is kind of like a hero. It's someone that has

success, the same kind of success that you want. So, for example, if you are a

basketball player, you want to be great then maybe Shaquille O'Neal or Michael Jordan

is your role model, maybe both. It's important to have role models. Role models are

people who have done already what you want to do. Why is that important? Well, it's

important because you can learn from them. You can learn much faster if you find out, if

you discover what they did to succeed. This is the fast track for success. You don't

have to make all the same mistakes. You can copy them in a way and learn much,

much faster.

So, for example, when I started my own business, in the beginning I knew nothing, zero,

I had no idea what to do. I was just an English teacher. Now I had two choices, I could

have just tried something, tried something else, kept trying things, trying things, making

mistakes, failing, try again. And I did do that somewhat. But I wanted to succeed faster.

That would be a very slow method if I only experimented, if I only tried and failed, tried

and failed, and tried to find everything by myself. So, of course, I wanted to succeed

faster, so what did I do? I went and I found role models. I found other people who were

already successful business people. I read their books. I went to their seminars and

their workshops. I learned everything possible from them. And then I used what I

learned with my own business. And in this way I was able to succeed much, much

faster. I could take all the great strategies that they were using, that they discovered in

their life, maybe with many, many years. I could take all those great strategies and I

could use them in months or in weeks.

Well you can do the same thing with your English learning or with anything. You can

find role models, people who are total masters, and you can steal their ideas. You can

steal the best ideas, the best strategies, the best methods that they have used, and you

can copy those so that you will learn much, much faster. You will make fewer mistakes.

So that's why role models are so important. They speed up the learning process, they

boost it up. They also, of course, give you an emotional boost because you can see,

hey, they did it. Somebody already did what I want to do. It proves it's not impossible, it

can be done. And I also had that a little bit with my business. I was a little bit scared. I

was an English teacher. I didn't know much about business. But the more I read about

all these other people who started, like me, with no knowledge of business, with no

money, but they did certain things and those certain actions led to success. Those

certain strategies led to success and I realized if I used the same strategies I will get the

Thought Mastery Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Thought Mastery." Are you feeling

good? Are you moving your body? Breathing deeply. Smiling big! Good posture? I

hope so. Let's get started.

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There was an incredible woman named Sri. Sri was a linguist and she wanted to

study Swahili.

What was Sri?

Well, she was a linguist.

What is a linguist?

A linguist is a person who studies languages. Aha.

So what did Sri study?

Languages, Sri studied languages. She was a linguist.

Was Sri a truck driver?

No, she wasn't a truck driver. Sri was a linguist.

Who was a linguist?

Sri, Sri was a linguist.

How many languages did Sri speak? Three?

No, not three.

Six?

No, not six.

She spoke 247 languages.

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Thought Mastery Vocabulary Text

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Thought Mastery." This is

going to be a little bit of a short vocabulary lesson but that's okay. Let's start.

Let's start again with NLP. NLP is an abbreviation for neuro-linguistic programming.

NLP is a technique or really it's a method for managing your brain. It's a psychological

method. And the parts NLP, the parts of that abbreviation are N means neuro, neuro.

So neuro means nerve, it really means nerve, something to do with the nervous system,

related to the nervous system. So, for example, we have neurosurgeons. A surgeon is

a doctor, a kind of doctor, so a neurosurgeon is a doctor who specializes, a doctor who

focuses on nerves, especially the brain. So again, neuro means related to nerves

related to the brain, related to the nervous system, neuro. You see this in a lot of

different words, so neurosurgeon, neuroscience, etc.

Okay, and then we have linguistic which we've talked about already but let's talk about it

one more time. Linguistic means related to language, related to language, linguistic.

And of course, programming again, programming means to develop specific commands

for something, a system of actions. Usually we use it with computers but you can do it

with your own brain, too. Alright, so that's NLP, neuro-linguistic programming.

Another word I use in this talk, a very common word, is modify, to modify. To modify

means to change something a little bit. It has the idea of a little bit, so if you say modify

the picture, it means change the picture but it usually has this idea of a small amount,

not totally. So we modify the color, for example, we change just the color. Then we

modify the size, we make something larger or smaller. And we modify, this, this, this,

this, and then totally it might be a big change, but each individual change is small. So

we use the word modify, to modify.

Alright, another word I used, another phrase actually I used in this lesson was boost up.

To boost or to boost up, sometimes we say to boost, sometimes we add up and we say

to boost up. They both have a similar meaning. To boost means to make something

stronger or higher. So, for example, we can boost up a child, what does that mean?

Well usually, we use it in a situation where the child is sitting on the floor, but they need

to be higher.

For example, to eat at the table, maybe they're too low. They're short so we want to

boost them up. We give them a taller chair, boost up the child. In this talk I'm talking

about boosting up your energy. It means lifting your energy, bringing your energy

higher. So a boost means to give something extra, extra high, push something up is the

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Thought Mastery Main Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the next lesson. Today we're going to talk about

"Thought Mastery." And what thought mastery is, it's controlling and managing your

thoughts. And when you control your thoughts, when you manage your thoughts, when

you can change and shift your thoughts, you change and shift your motivation. You

change and shift your emotion. And that causes you to change and shift your actions.

And a lot of what we're going to talk about today comes from NLP. That's

neuro-linguistic programming which is a very long word. Neuro means nerve or brain,

something to do with the nerves or the brain or the nervous system, neuro. Linguistic

we've learned already.

Linguistic means language. And programming, of course, is similar to programming a

computer, telling it something, what to do. So what it talks about is how to program your

brain with language and with thoughts and with pictures. Thať's neuro-linguistic

programming. It was developed by several different people, one of the most famous

people is Richard Bandler developed this system called NLP. And NLP is designed to

help you kind of control your brain a little better. To decide the kind of images, decide

the kind of thoughts you want to have in your brain. And by doing that, by changing

your thoughts you will change your emotions and your actions.

One of the key techniques of NLP is to take images that you have in your brain and to

modify them and change them. So a lot of times we have negative pictures in our head

and we don't realize how powerful they are, how much they affect us, how they change

the way we act, how they change the way we feel. And so what we want to do is look at

the pictures that we make in our head and we want to choose them. We want to

change them and choose better pictures.

Let me give you an example. Let's talk about English class, English class. Imagine in

your head an English class. What do you see? What picture comes into your head

when I say English class? For example, do you see a room with a lot of students in it?

Are they sitting at little desks in rows? Are they moving a lot or are they still? What

about the teacher? Where is the teacher? Is the teacher at the front of the class

standing above the students talking down to them? Do the students look happy? Are

they smiling or do they look bored? What about the quality of this picture in your head?

Is it bright and sunny and colorful? Or is it kind of dark, maybe black and white? Is it

loud? Is there music or is it quiet? Or is it silent? Is it big and in your face, close to

you, or small and far away?

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Emotional Mastery 2 Vocabulary Text

Hello. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Emotional Mastery 2." Let's get started.

Now are you smiling? Is your posture strong? Are your shoulders back? Is your head

up? Are you moving? You should be. Get in a strong peak emotional state right now

before we begin. Okay, let's start.

Acquisition, the word acquisition. I talk about language acquisition. Acquisition means

to get something and keep it. So to get and keep. So language acquisition means you

get language, in other words you learn it. You get it and you keep it. So the idea is that

you don't lose it. And sometimes, some teachers talk about language learning and

language acquisition. And the idea is that learning is more temporary, for example, in

school for a test you learn English, you take the test then you forget it. That's language

learning. Language acquisition means you get the English, you keep it, you never

forget it. So acquisition, to get and keep something.

Another word we use in this lesson is anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety is nervousness or a

feeling of stress. So anxiety, a feeling of nervousness or a feeling of stress. Anxiety, it's

the feeling, it's a noun. Now the adjective is anxious. So you might say "I am anxious"

or "I feel anxious." It means I feel worried, I feel nervous, I feel stressed. I feel anxious.

So anxiety is the noun, anxious the adjective.

Our next word, vividly. I say imagine your future vividly. Imagine your goal vividly.

Vividly means clearly, colorfully. It has this idea of very powerfully, right? You can

imagine your future. Let's say, imagine yourself speaking English very well. Maybe the

picture is kind of small and dark, not clear. But if I say imagine your future vividly, you

see yourself speaking English but it's a big, clear, colorful picture. So vividly has this

idea of colorfully. The adjective is vivid. Vivid, we sometimes talk about a vivid picture,

a vivid photograph. Very colorful, clear, strong photograph, a vivid photograph.

Alright, another word we have in this lesson is visualize. You probably know visual.

Visual means related to seeing, related to the eyes. To say "I am a visual person"

means I like to look at things. My emotions are strongest when I look. So visual,

related to seeing or about seeing, about your eyes. To visualize is a verb, it's an action.

And it really means to imagine. It means to see in your head. So visualize your future

means see your future in your head. I can say "Visualize a hamburger right now" it

means see a hamburger in your head, visualize. Visualize.

Another word we have in this lesson is comprehension. I talk about listening

comprehension. Comprehension means understanding, very simple. So listening

comprehension means listening understanding. It means you understand what's

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Beliefs Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge, and this is the mini-story for "Beliefs."

Are you feeling good? Good posture? Deep breathing? Big smile? Moving? I hope

so. I'm not going to start this story until you are. Alright, let's do it.

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There was a guy.

Was there a girl or was there a guy?

A guy, I just said it. There was a guy.

And what was his name? Was his name Bill?

No, no, no, no, no.

What was his name? Well, come on, what was his name?

His name was George.

There was a guy and his name was George. And George, of course, had a

problem.

What was his problem?

Well in fact, George had two problems.

Oh no.

Not just one problem, George had two problems.

How many problems did he have?

Two, George had two problems.

What was his first problem?

Well, his first problem was that girls always laughed at him.