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The FIVE HABITS of SUCCESS - Amazing Motivational Video for Students, Success & Studying

English shadowing practice · 234 sentences · 10:44 long · 1730 words

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This page turns the YouTube video “The FIVE HABITS of SUCCESS - Amazing Motivational Video for Students, Success & Studying” into an English shadowing exercise. The recording is split into 234 short sentences that you can play one at a time, repeat after the speaker and record your own version for automatic pronunciation scoring.

The speaker talks at about 169 words per minute, a fast pace, with an average of 7.4 words per sentence. That makes it best for advanced learners; slow the playback down or loop each sentence at first.

How to practise with this video

1. Play the first sentence and listen while reading the transcript. Notice the stress, the pauses and where the intonation rises or falls.
2. Replay it and speak along with the speaker, copying the rhythm rather than reading word by word.
3. Record yourself straight after the original. ShadowEcho scores each word for accuracy, fluency and completeness.
4. Compare your recording with the original, retry the words marked in red, then move on to the next sentence.
5. Practise 10–15 minutes a day. Coming back to the same video after a few days is an easy way to measure progress.

Transcript (English)

1. 0:00 if we were 100% real overall truthful
2. 0:03 and honest even though we don't like to
3. 0:04 Minuteman we care so much about what
4. 0:06 people think about us and if we're not
5. 0:07 careful we find ourselves trying to meet
6. 0:10 the expectations of everybody else and
7. 0:12 it's not wrong to have people have
8. 0:14 expectations on us but at the end of the
9. 0:17 day man if you're only focusing on what
10. 0:20 you're supposed to be and what you're
11. 0:21 supposed to become it's gonna have all
12. 0:23 this anxiety attached to it because we
13. 0:25 fall short and I had to learn the hard
14. 0:27 way a man
15. 0:28 we are all beautifully broken somehow
16. 0:30 someway we've all got so and it's not
17. 0:33 about you being perfect and it's not
18. 0:35 about your performance all the time it's
19. 0:37 about daily progress because nobody can
20. 0:40 judge you if you're applying yourself
21. 0:42 with your effort you only know you and
22. 0:46 you can sell yourself short this year if
23. 0:48 you want to and you can cut the corners
24. 0:50 if you want to and you can do just
25. 0:51 enough to get by if you want to but I
26. 0:54 promise y'all man as you guys grow up
27. 0:56 and as you continue to mature and as you
28. 0:58 look back in the rearview mirror of your
29. 1:00 life if you don't take a console and
30. 1:02 understand that this is your moment and
31. 1:05 if you don't take control of this man
32. 1:07 regrets thoughts oh man I wish I should
33. 1:11 have done I could've and only what if
34. 1:13 they will come alive you're at a place
35. 1:17 in a space in all of your lives right
36. 1:18 now and you control your destiny and
37. 1:20 nobody can take it from you and I want
38. 1:23 you to dream big and dream outlandish
39. 1:26 and set goals and benchmarks that seem
40. 1:30 sometimes even too far to attain
41. 1:34 and I didn't realize it but I developed
42. 1:39 these five habits in my heart in my mind
43. 1:41 has changed my life I call him the five
44. 1:44 and it wasn't till about eighteen months
45. 1:47 ago that I realized I had developed
46. 1:49 these attitudes and these
47. 1:50 characteristics in these habits that's
48. 1:52 helped me be 10 years sober that's
49. 1:55 helped me be 10 years since I've thought
50. 1:57 of it in my life
51. 1:58 that's helped me beat Enya here since
52. 1:59 I've so for me it's helped me be 10
53. 2:01 years since I've had an eating disorder
54. 2:02 let's help me 10 years overcome
55. 2:04 depression anxiety all these issues
56. 2:06 these habits that I've developed and I'm
57. 2:08 now recognized it was these things that
58. 2:11 I was intentional awarding to be better
59. 2:14 at it's changed my life and I call them
60. 2:16 the five and there's simply this I
61. 2:18 learned to be transparent I learned to
62. 2:20 be accountable I learned to work hard I
63. 2:23 learned to make good choices and I had a
64. 2:25 value people those five things will
65. 2:29 change your life forever and those are
66. 2:32 five things for you to learn to do when
67. 2:34 you graduate college when you when you
68. 2:36 when you're often beginning your career
69. 2:38 and after your first mistake like these
70. 2:41 are the five things right now as high
71. 2:43 school students you can begin to say I
72. 2:45 want to develop on these each and every
73. 2:48 day you see when I talk about being
74. 2:51 transparent transparency literally means
75. 2:54 see-through I had to live a life that I
76. 2:57 understood something but if I wouldn't
77. 3:00 allow people to see my hurts my paints
78. 3:03 and my struggles if I wouldn't live a
79. 3:05 life that was somewhat see-through also
80. 3:09 find the courage to talk about my hurts
81. 3:12 my struggles and my pain transparency
82. 3:15 really is this it's taking off the mask
83. 3:18 and the fake smiles and the fake faces
84. 3:20 and acting like you just don't care but
85. 3:23 being honest and truthful with somebody
86. 3:25 in your life that mentor that
87. 3:28 that trusted caring adult those best
88. 3:30 friends where you're willing to be
89. 3:32 transparent and speak up and speak out
90. 3:35 and understand that it's okay to not be
91. 3:38 okay and it's okay to make mistakes but
92. 3:41 you have to own them a lot of us will
93. 3:44 talk about it but we're so afraid to
94. 3:46 take the steps called accountability
95. 3:49 where you allow people to speak into
96. 3:51 your life the accountability is that you
97. 3:53 giving people permission to hold you
98. 3:56 accountable and get you into trouble
99. 3:57 accountability is for you because you've
100. 4:00 already decided there's some areas in
101. 4:02 your life that you want to change and
102. 4:05 change tapes intentional choices to be
103. 4:08 different hardwork works you can't get
104. 4:12 around hard work y'all our culture must
105. 4:15 be real we're lazy y'all be honest it's
106. 4:18 so easy for us to jump on Google to find
107. 4:21 every answer to every question that we
108. 4:23 want and that's the end of the day yep
109. 4:25 you may get an A but not every a is an A
110. 4:29 and this is what I'm saying by that you
111. 4:31 can jump on there and you can cut the
112. 4:33 corners and you can make every little
113. 4:36 loophole and still get on the surface
114. 4:38 well it looks like an A but you didn't
115. 4:40 learn anything about life why would you
116. 4:43 Rob yourself the ability to really grow
117. 4:46 and alive not every eizan eh I don't
118. 4:49 care what you said at the end of the day
119. 4:52 you can't get around hard work and this
120. 4:55 is what's amazing about this love this
121. 4:56 this world we live in success it's not
122. 4:59 that difficult show the majority of the
123. 5:02 people don't really want to put in the
124. 5:04 work they don't want to roll up their
125. 5:06 sleeves and actually go after their
126. 5:08 dream we all like to talk about it we
127. 5:10 all like to post about it we all I can
128. 5:13 tell people about it but talk is cheap
129. 5:15 what you do is what you believe you know
130. 5:22 your dreams and your goals they
131. 5:24 shouldn't come easy and if dreams and
132. 5:27 goals and things you want to pursue what
133. 5:28 things you want to become if they're
134. 5:29 come and easy I'm challenging you to set
135. 5:32 the bar even higher because you can
136. 5:34 press yourself and you can grow and it's
137. 5:36 tough man grow and change and and
138. 5:39 becoming the better you it's not
139. 5:40 comfortable nobody likes to be
140. 5:42 uncomfortable but change takes change
141. 5:44 and nobody can change without being a
142. 5:48 little bit uncomfortable and the reason
143. 5:50 a lot of us don't change our attitudes
144. 5:52 our behaviors how we treat each other is
145. 5:55 because we don't like to be
146. 5:56 uncomfortable it's easier to go back to
147. 5:58 being who we've always been the man
148. 6:01 that's never gonna give you your destiny
149. 6:04 because I know sometimes in our culture
150. 6:06 and this generation we feel like we're
151. 6:08 all by ourselves we feel like nobody
152. 6:10 understands us we still like we're all
153. 6:12 alone and let me ask this question I
154. 6:14 need every average junior and every
155. 6:16 freshman in this room to own this
156. 6:17 question and it is wrong
157. 6:19 is our life and this is our future how
158. 6:21 many of you in here if you were a hunter
159. 6:23 the synonymous with yourself are there
160. 6:25 times in your story in your life do you
161. 6:28 sometimes feel honestly like nobody
162. 6:31 understands you and honestly sometimes
163. 6:33 you feel like you're all by yourself
164. 6:34 raise your hand
165. 6:35 pull them high man and hands go up all
166. 6:38 across the room you know why because
167. 6:40 even though we feel like we're all alone
168. 6:42 you're not the only person who feels
169. 6:44 like that many of us feel the way you're
170. 6:48 feeling adults feel the way you're
171. 6:51 feeling I promise you I ripped my mask
172. 6:55 off ten years ago man and I've never
173. 6:56 experienced more freedom or success or
174. 6:59 peace of mind life isn't about just
175. 7:02 existing it's about experiencing all
176. 7:05 that life has for us and then in this
177. 7:06 room is greatness
178. 7:12 making the right choice and we all know
179. 7:16 what the right choice is all of us in
180. 7:18 our heart and our gut and our mind
181. 7:20 we know what we should and we shouldn't
182. 7:23 be doing and the more I learned to
183. 7:26 listen to that voice and the more I
184. 7:28 began to always balance every idea of my
185. 7:31 dream of wanting to change the world
186. 7:33 every day when I woke up I looked at my
187. 7:37 dream and I said I'm gonna make
188. 7:38 conscious decisions to make good choices
189. 7:42 and not bad choices and I say it a lot
190. 7:44 and it's this week but in your sideview
191. 7:46 mirrors it says objects in the mirror
192. 7:49 are closer and things appear what it
193. 7:52 means well you see reflected back at you
194. 7:55 it's not as far as late as what you
195. 7:57 think it is and all of your dreams and
196. 7:59 all of your goals and the things you
197. 8:01 want to achieve the things you want to
198. 8:02 become they don't start when you
199. 8:04 graduate they're right here they're
200. 8:07 right now your dreams and your goals are

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