Power English Intro Main Text These lessons are sold only on our website, EffortlessEnglishClub.com. If you bought these lessons somewhere else, you have an illegal copy. Please notify us and we will take immediate legal action against the seller. Thank you. Hi, this is AJ Hoge, Director of the Effortless English Club. Welcome to our new set of lessons, these are called the Power English Lessons. The reason they're called Power English is because in these lessons we're going to do two things. Number one, you're going to learn English, of course. As always, we have the mini-stories which are ou
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Power English Intro Main Text These lessons are sold only on our website, EffortlessEnglishClub.com. If you bought these lessons somewhere else, you have an illegal copy. Please notify us and we will take immediate legal action against the seller. Thank you. Hi, this is AJ Hoge, Director of the Effortless English Club. Welcome to our new set of lessons, these are called the Power English Lessons. The reason they're called Power English is because in these lessons we're going to do two things. Number one, you're going to learn English, of course. As always, we have the mini-stories which are ou
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October 20, 2021
Hi, this is AJ, welcome to our next lesson. This one is called "Excitement." We're going to talk about excitement and I'm going to read a little section from a book called The 4-Hour Work Week, which
<p><br></p> <p>Excitement Main Text</p> <p>Hi, this is AJ, welcome to our next lesson. This one is called "Excitement." We're</p> <p>going to talk about excitement and I'm going to read a little section from a book called</p> <p>The 4-Hour Work Week, which is a fantastic book. I love this book.</p> <p>In fact, I'm going to do a few lessons based on sections of this book because I really,</p> <p>really love it. I think it's just an incredible book that really has a very creative way of</p> <p>looking at life and work and enjoying yourself.</p> <p>The theme of the book, really, is enjoying your life. I mean that is really what the book</p> <p>is all about and Tim Ferriss is the writer of the book. Again, the book's title is The 4-</p> <p>Hour Work Week written by Tim Ferriss. Absolutely excellent book, I highly</p> <p>recommend it. Now the section we're going to talk about today is about excitement.</p> <p>So let me read what Tim has to say about excitement and then l'll talk more about it.</p> <p>So here we go.</p> <p>"What do you want? Well, first let's ask a better question. Most people will never</p> <p>know what they want. I don't know what I want. If you ask me what I want to do in the</p> <p>next five months for language learning, on the other hand, I do know. It's a matter of</p> <p>specificity. What do you want is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable</p> <p>answer. Forget about it.</p> <p>What are your goals is similarly fated for confusion and guesswork. To rephrase the</p> <p>question we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Let's assume we</p> <p>have 10 goals and we achieve them. What is the desired outcome that makes all the</p> <p>effort worthwhile? The most common response is what I also would have suggested</p> <p>five years ago, happiness. I no longer believe this is a good answer. I no longer</p> <p>believe that happiness is the reason we achieve goals.</p> <p>Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and the idea of happiness has become</p> <p>ambiguous through overuse. There is a more precise alternative that reflects what I</p> <p>believe is the actual objective for achieving goals. Bear with me. What is the opposite</p> <p>of happiness? Sadness? No. Just as love and hate are two sides of the same coin,</p> <p>so are happiness and sadness. Crying out of happiness is a perfect illustration of this</p> <p>idea.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
October 20, 2021
Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Excitement." Let's start. Our first word is specificity, specificity, a little difficult to pronounce, specificity. In fact,
<p><br></p> <p>Excitement Vocabulary Text</p> <p>Hello, this is AJ, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Excitement." Let's start.</p> <p>Our first word is specificity, specificity, a little difficult to pronounce, specificity. In fact,</p> <p>many native speakers have trouble pronouncing this word, especially if you say it fast</p> <p>in a sentence, specificity, specificity, specificity. Sometimes have trouble</p> <p>pronouncing it, too, but I'm doing it correctly now, specificity.</p> <p>Specificity is the noun. Specificity means, um...specific-ness is what it really means,</p> <p>right? It means being specific, being detailed, being very exact. It's kind of the</p> <p>opposite of generality. Generality is the situation of being very general. So, for</p> <p>example, you say “I want a lot more money." That statement is a generality, right? It's</p> <p>not detailed. But if you say “I want $2,496", well that statement has specificity. It has</p> <p>detail. It has specific-ness, so that's specificity.</p> <p>Our next word is imprecise. Imprecise is an adjective. And, in fact, it's the opposite of</p> <p>specific and it's the opposite of precise. Precise is very similar to specific, it means</p> <p>you'd be very exact, very detailed. So, again, “I want $2,496.20." That's precise,</p> <p>that's detailed.</p> <p>The opposite is imprecise, meaning not detailed, not precise. Imprecise means "I'd</p> <p>like some more money," right? That's not detailed. It's very general, it's imprecise.</p> <p>So Tim Ferris is saying that the question "what do I want", it's an imprecise question.</p> <p>It's not a specific question, it's too general. It's too imprecise.</p> <p>Our next word is fated, to be fated. He says the question "what are your goals", that</p> <p>question is fated for confusion, it's fated to cause confusion. To be fated for means to</p> <p>be destined for. It means something that absolutely will happen in the future or soon.</p> <p>So to be fated for confusion, it means it absolutely will create confusion in the near</p> <p>future or in the far future. So that question, that general question, what are your goals</p> <p>or what are my goals or what do I want, it's fated to cause confusion. It absolutely will</p> <p>cause confusion.</p> <p>Next is the word worthwhile. So he's saying "What is the purpose of goals? Why are</p> <p>goals worthwhile?" Worthwhile means beneficial. So why are goals beneficial? Why</p> <p>are goals useful, helpful, good to do, good to have, worthwhile? So worthwhile, again,</p> <p>beneficial, helpful, useful, worthwhile, so worthwhile, why are goals useful? Why are</p> <p>goals worthwhile? Why are they worthwhile?</p> <p><br></p>
October 20, 2021
Hi, this is AJ, welcome to the point of view mini-stories for "Excitement." Let's get started.
<p><br></p> <p>Automatic English For The People</p> <p>Excitement POV Text</p> <p>Hi, this is AJ, welcome to the point of view mini-stories for "Excitement." Let's get</p> <p>started.</p> <p>Since last year Brad has needed money for school. He has been very poor since last</p> <p>year. He lost all his money last year, so since last year he has needed money for</p> <p>school. Of course, he has had a worthwhile purpose for needing money. He's had a</p> <p>worthwhile reason for needing money, during this whole time from last year up until</p> <p>recently.</p> <p>So Brad has needed money for school since last year and since last year he has had a</p> <p>worthwhile purpose. And during this time he has thought about money every day. He</p> <p>has tried to find a way to get more money, but he has failed. Since last year, up until</p> <p>recently, he has failed to get more money, so he has not been able to go to school.</p> <p>Well one day he got a great idea, he got a gun and he went to a convenience store.</p> <p>He went into the store, he pointed the gun at the clerk and he said "Give me some</p> <p>money!" And the clerk said “Now that's a very imprecise request, how about some</p> <p>specificity? Don't be ambiguous. Tell me exactly how much you want."</p> <p>Well Brad was surprised and he was silent for a while. And then finally he said "I don't</p> <p>know. Ah, bear with me while I think." Well then Brad was silent again. He stood with</p> <p>the gun, thinking for a long, long time, thinking about the clerk's question, the clerk's</p> <p>request.</p> <p>He thought for seventeen and a half hours and then, finally, after seventeen and a half</p> <p>hours Brad asked for $7,298, precisely. And because Brad's request was precise the</p> <p>clerk gave it to him. The clerk gave him exactly $7,298. Brad ran home. Then he ran</p> <p>to school with the money. He paid for school and he started to study again. Of</p> <p>course, Brad was very, very happy. What a happy story.</p> <p>Okay, next, same story, this time from a future point of view. This time using a future</p> <p>timeframe, let's go to the future, shall we?</p> <p>In the future there will be a student named Brad and Brad is going to need money for</p> <p>school. He'll be a poor student and he won't have money for school. Brad's going to</p> <p>think about this problem a lot. Now, of course, he'll have a worthwhile purpose. It's a</p> <p>worthwhile purpose to need money for school.</p> <p>EffortlessEnglishClub.com</p> <p>1</p> <p><br></p>
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