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minutes okay today's topic is why your
worst days are the best days to study so
have you ever had a day where you
planned on learning language and you
just couldn't go through with it even if
learning a new language is your personal
goal something that you really want well
today you're going to learn one why
these bad days happen and two why you'll
get your best work done on your worst
days let's start why bad days happen
with language learning when I say bad
days I don't mean when you're too busy
or when life gets in the way these
things are unavoidable
I mean days when you're just not in the
mood it's a perfectly good day the sun
is shining no bad news but you just
can't get yourself to study you're just
wasting the day so here's why they
happen first it's the law of diminishing
returns in action what does this mean
think of it as eating pizza every day
for five days a week on the first day
the first two slices are great but by
the third one you're feeling queasy it's
not as good and by the fifth day you're
sick of pizza that's the law of
diminishing returns when the benefits
start decreasing over time and it
happens with language learning when you
first start you learn a lot of phrases
and it feels good you're excited but as
time goes on you don't feel like you're
learning much and this affects your mood
and motivation so you're not as excited
to learn anymore so you start having bad
days second bad days happen because you
overthink things
and ruin it for yourself it's like
dreading going to the gym let's say you
went yesterday you have to go again
today
so you're dreading it all day long
ah I gotta go again you set yourself up
for a bad mood and a bad day
third bad days are a natural part of the
cycle some days will be good
most days you'll feel indifferent some
days will be bad but that's completely
natural and anyone with long term
projects and goals feels the same and
fourth you can't be on 100% of the time
so just like days can't always be good
you too can't always be on and ready to
go all the time again just a realistic
and expected part of the journey now
let's jump into the second part why
you'll get your best work done on your
worst days so why will you get your best
work done first it's not that bad once
you start once you've spent 10 or 15
minutes learning a language it's not so
bad people say the same thing about the
gym if you show up and put in a bit of
time it gets easier
second it's overcoming a mental barrier
what I mean is when most of us have bad
days our brain automatically says ok
can't be done today stop we're done
but if you just work through it you
don't take these bad days so seriously
anymore and that means you're more
likely to stick with your language
learning goal this brings us to the next
point third it's your best work because
working on a bad day only strengthens
your habit of language learning
remember habits are what will help you
master a language over time if you can
stick to a habit on a bad day your habit
only gets stronger and it will lead you
to fluency and finally fourth it just
feels good to overcome something imagine
you have a bad day but you still put in
10 minutes of language learning it's a
real sense of achievement and it doesn't
matter if you do a 10 minute lesson or a
5 minute lesson the fact that you made
some progress on a bad day will give you
the motivation you need to keep going
now speaking of lessons
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okay super excited to listen to your
audio files again this month I'm going
to start with the first one play
hi everyone my name is roughly I'm from
Indonesia now I'm studying in English
literature at one of the university in
Indonesia so firstly I'm truly grateful
because I've found one of the most
beneficial YouTube channel for English
Learner it's English 101 calm well your
lesson is absolutely easy to understand
and all of the material stick to me very
strongly well when you ask me why do I
study English there are many reasons
that I want to tell you but I will tell
you the main reason why I study English
if you study English it will make you
getting a better job in a future better
jobs and as all we know there are many
international companies require that
someone who wants to work in the company
should speak nice ok so I think it's
memories that why thank you awesome that
was so cool great really clear
pronunciation thank you so much that was
from Indonesia awesome okay I'm gonna go
to the next one then from El Salvador I
think play hi guys how are things going
my name is Javier Guerra hi I'm from is
have other
I belong in English since the beginning
of this year by myself well I never went
to an academy or college learning by
himself also I traveled it for seven
weeks this year between March and May to
the USA this was my first time traveling
alone one of my dream is to be able to
work and live in the USA using English
as a powerful tool wow I really want to
become a different person and improve my
life wow that's amazing so I've never
gone to a course like never gone to an
English like Academy or anything but
it's just been traveling and wants to
live in the USA and he spoke so clearly
like that was awesome thanks cool okay
continuing on from Sudan it looks like
hey hello Alicia what's up my name is
Mohammad Bushra alcohol food and I live
in the capital car so I get out of it is
elite accounting now I'm working on
improving my English I wanna learn
English to get a better job and I want
to toss it to you as a yes that's what I
have for thank you to listen to me
bye bye right bye yeah cool so studied
accounting and is learning English to
get a better job in the USA awesome so
lots of people studying for work reasons
okay cool
alright next one is from Syria play
hello everyone it's me Mohammad I'm from
Syria actually I've been studying and
practicing English for a few years and
I'm still doing my best improve myself
well I chose English to study because I
believe that English is one of the most
a spoken language all over the world so
he said that it's the easiest way to
understand others and get understood by
them right so I consider English as a
lingua franca right I hope that I could
be more fluent in the future and I may
gain more vocabulary and well let's say
that once of my goal is to travel to
another country where in right is an
official language so I could yeah Travis
English with native speed
spot I'm afraid that it's a very far
dream I hope I could cheat achieve it
and once a day thanks good lucky
cool so he's talking about wanting to
travel and hoping to achieve that
someday he said in the in his recording
that he feels like it's a far-off dream
by like his English was so good I feel
like you would have no problem if you
traveled like that was all very clear
and easy to understand
cool thanks for that ok I'm gonna go to
the next one from Ukraine
hi my name is Vijay and I from Ukraine
Ukraine with two sank toe Alicia and
English 101 thank you for your work you
give me opportunity to improve my
English which I need for my work and
travel your podcast are really
interesting and I always listen to them
on my way to work and back thank you
cool he listens on his way to work in
back actually that's good that's a good
practice like going like taking your
commute to and from work cuz that's like
actually a pretty good period of most
people's days I used to do that too
that's a good idea
thank you so much that was Victor thanks
Victor good luck with your continued
studies that's awesome cool okay so I'm
gonna go to the next one from Thailand
hello Alicia i ually
I'm come from Thailand and I love
listening to you from English transmen
when at home I think is very wonderful I
learned a lot about listening and try to
turn myself speaking and I interested in
learning English because I want to use
in my career yeah other words my career
right and I enjoy with learning English
for the second night good great cool so
lots of people want to use it for their
career like she mentioned using it to
advance her career as well that's really
really awesome like that was kind of a
theme with the submissions from this
time around like using English to
actually like do something related to
your job so I'm really happy to hear
that feedback from everybody thank you
again so much for sending these it's so
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hear from our kind of global community
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