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#119 Shhh - I'm Meditating "10% Happier" By Dan Harris
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www.feelgoodenglish.com To start this episode, let me ask you something. Do you have a voice inside your head? Like, do you have “something” inside of you that speaks to you? As weird as that sounds, I bet you do. And I’m not talking about “hearing voices” in your head, like a crazy person might, but just that self-talk we all have that guides us, …
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#118 How to Actually Live a Better Life - "A Guide to the Good Life"
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today I’m going to teach you a lesson from a book called “A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy” by William Braxton Irvine. In this book, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. I’m only going to …
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#117 The Dumb Things We All Do - "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today I have some ideas from a very interesting book called “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely. And the main point in this book, the overall message is that much of our behavior is misguided, irrational. Through research and study, the author has found that a lot of this irrational behavior is also …
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#116 How to Be Yourself - "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go To get started with today’s topic, I got a question for you. What kind of person are you? Are you motivated? Are you lazy? Are you always running late? Are you a leader or a follower? Are you good at sports? And where did those beliefs come from? A former teacher, your friends who have labeled you a …
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#115 Biggest Lessons of the Year - Part 2
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go The podcast that blends, mixes, English learning with personal development. Making your time spent with English more inspiring, enlightening, and...exciting? This is the last episode of 2017, well, it’s literally the first episode of 2018, but I am still going to touch on a couple ideas from 2017, tw…
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#114 Biggest Lessons of the Year - Part 1
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go I have a lesson for you today that will be good for speaking practice. I want you to speak today, either out loud so people think you talk to yourself like a crazy person, or in your head, so you can create voices in your head that speak English. So you’ll either be crazy and talk to yourself or you’…
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#113 Lindsay McMahon - Perfection is the Enemy
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go Today I have something special for you. Well, I guess it’s always special, right? But today is extra special. It’s not going to be just me on the show, I brought someone else on the show to talk about life-changing topics. Lindsay McMahon from AllEarsEnglish will be on the show today, talking about t…
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#112 How Stress Can Make you Stronger - "Antifragile"
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Get the premium lesson at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go I’m going to talk about a concept today, a pretty complicated one. A concept that’ll stretch your mind, make you think, possibly make your mind stronger. And speaking of stronger, let’s first talk about muscles. How do we build muscle at the gym? I mean, how do we really build muscle? By going to…
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#111 WHY! -"Start with Why" by Simon Sinek
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Get the premium lesson at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go Today we’re going to talk about a Ted Talk. Well, and a book. We are going to discover the reason why some people and some companies are so influential. We often think that if someone tells you exactly what they can do for you and how they do it then we’ll be convinced. But it’s actually not the …
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#110 How to Deal with People - "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
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Get the Premium lesson at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go in today’s episode, I am going to teach you how to deal with people, well how to deal with people better. I’m going to pull lessons from the very popular and classic book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. Since “How to Win Friends & Influence People” was published in 19…
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#109 Finding the Courage to Connect With Others
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Get the premium lesson for this at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go Today I have an episode based on two words. That’s it, two English words. But these two words affect our lives so much. One of these words is responsible for our loneliness, depression, our feelings of never having enough. It causes hate, and fights, and divorce. It makes us want to put …
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#108 Resisting Personal Growth - My Story
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Get the premium lesson at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go Today I’m going to get a bit personal. I’m going to tell you something that recently happened in my life that could have ended pretty terribly, but instead, the situation turned into a huge life-lesson for me! Thank God. I recently had a realization that ended months of conflict that I was dealin…
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#107 Loving Your Limits - A Ted Talk with Amy Purdy
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Go premium at www.feelgoodenglish.com/go We as humans love the stories of incredible successes. Stories of people doing things that seem impossible. But I got to thinking, “you know when something terrible happens to someone, this person becomes limited to just what’s in front of them. Their options have been taken away from them. And it seems that…
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#106 Goals are for Losers - "How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big" by Scott Adams
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Get the premium lessons at www.feelgoodenglish.com In January, with a pen, paper, and a lot of motivation, I plan out my whole year and what I want to see happen. Well, you know what, my year hasn’t ever really fallen nicely in line with my goals. Can you believe that? Things change. Goals change. Life happens. Opportunities you weren’t expecting c…
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#105 Expect the Worst - "The Antidote" by Oliver Burkeman
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Get the premium English lesson at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today’s lesson might be a little shocking for some of you, especially because it’s coming from me, someone who talks a lot about personal development. Why shocking? Because today’s episode is on a book that pretty much disrupts a lot of the self-help genre. The self-help genre covers subject…
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Get the transcript at www.feegoodenglish.com When you have an idea about doing something, something you know would be valuable to your life, do you often stop and think about it, then end up not doing that “something”? This happens a lot! It happens to me, a lot! There’s a voice inside my head that keeps me from doing what’s important. Does this ha…
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#103 How to be happier: "Hardwiring Happiness" by Rick Hanson
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/hardwire Today we are going to talk about happiness. We all like feeling happy, right? Well, if you don't like feeling happy, well then you either need some professional help, which I hope you get, or you're a freak! But why do we always focus on the negative? Well, our brains evolved this way. It's an …
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#102 Advanced grammar lesson: used to vs. to be used to
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www.feelgoodenglish.com Let me help you correct some of the most common advanced grammar mistakes. There are two different phrases that often get mixed up. One is easy, and one is complex. But even the easy one needs to be explained, and the complex one, well, that one too. The first is about past habits, or something that existed or was true in th…
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#101 The Smallest Decisions Matter Most: "The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Does it ever feel like you give up pretty quickly after deciding to do something positive for your life? You want to make a big change or add a big skill to start strong but only a few days or sometimes a few weeks later you give up, and we feel bad when this happens. Or do you constantly notice yoursel…
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Learn some behind-the-scenes info about the podcast after 100 episodes. I'll share some listener numbers, how the podcast has changed, and what's coming in the future.
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#099 The Secret Ingredient - A TED TALK on Passion and Perseverance
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today we are going to talk about a video, a TED Talk called The power of passion and perseverance, by professor and author Angela Lee Duckworth. And in this talk, she talks about a characteristic, a very important, a vital characteristic that successful people have. It’s not how smart you are, it’s not …
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#098 Badass BUSINESS ENGLISH with Spoken.io - Interviewing Henry Blue
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Check out Spoken at www.spoken.io Want business English lessons in your pocket, all day long? Well, that might sound like trouble, but it's not! Spoken.io is a very innovative and effective way to improve your business English. Use your messaging app, like Whatsapp or WeChat, to learn the necessary business jargon and impressive sounding vocabulary…
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#097 The 4 Most Important Life Lessons "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today's episode I think will help you become much more fluent in life. One of my favorite books, at least one of my top ten books that I've read in my, not so short life, but not so long life either. I'm going to talk about a book today called "The 4 Agreements". This book was written by the author Donn…
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#096 Having Sex with Someone Else "Sex at Dawn" by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com I’m going to talk about some fascinating concepts from a book and we're going to go more into the evolution of human sexual behavior in an attempt to understand why we deal with sex the way that we do. Some questions that will be answered are things like are we naturally monogamous? Monogamy, monogamous…
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#095 Why You are You "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"
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Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com Today we're going to talk about history, something I don't do very often here on the Feel Good English podcast, but this book that I’ve recently read is very interesting and I wanted to share something different with you, very interesting ideas on the history of humans, going all the way back three hund…
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