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how to learn anything fast or almost
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anything learning things faster and
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learning things with more efficiency
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comes down to treating learning alog
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together as a full body process this
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means your physical body your mental
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state what you see in your mind as well
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as the course of action that you take
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now you already know my Approach on
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Improvement we don't do things by Brute
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Force here so everything I say today
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just start to keep it in the back of
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your mind from now now on most
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importantly be realistic and don't
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stress yourself out if you don't do all
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of these at once it's something that
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you'll probably come back to for the
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rest of your
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life so I want to start with one of the
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most important aspects of learning
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overall and that's actually the physical
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state of the body what I mean by this is
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optimizing our nervous system and making
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sure that we can deliver all the
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nutrients that we have available to us
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everywhere in the body and one of the
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best ways to do this is just to increase
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your blood flow I don't think I've ever
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heard this talked about maybe I have but
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I know this has helped me significantly
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for the past 5 years at the least and
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this is something I really want people
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to take more serious because it may not
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seem like that big of a deal on the
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surface but internally no pun intended
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internally it really does make a very
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big difference in the way that you
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perform the way that you operate how
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long you can sit down and study your
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focus ability all those kinds of things
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because the more you're able to deliver
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nutrients to the brain the heart your
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limbs if you're playing a instrument or
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something the better you can operate so
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what do we do basically before you
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engage in any task even studying reading
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whatever you want to get your heart rate
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up just a little bit I'm not saying go
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run sprints down the street you don't
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have to do all that just try to get your
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heart rate up a bit stretch maybe do a
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few yoga poses or pilat poses if you're
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into that I usually just jump in place
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uh just to start or I move my limbs in
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certain ways just to kind of get the
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blood moving but you want to do this
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before you start studying or practicing
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and you want to do this intermittently
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while you're studying or practicing like
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for example this song that you're
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hearing right now is actually me playing
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and while I'm playing I'll just randomly
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get up and do something like a handstand
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for instance now of course you don't
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have to go
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doing a bunch of things that you're not
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able to do or something that's going to
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strain you but to me there's no better
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way to get blood to my brain than just
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literally be upside down but anything
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works really like I said sometimes I
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just jump in place just move my arms
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around a
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bit whatever it takes for you to get
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blood moving throughout your body if
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you're in public maybe just get up and
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move around a bit stretch or if you're
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like me and you really don't care what's
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going on around you you you can do
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exactly what you would do at home just
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in public don't bother anyone though
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don't be in the way doing handstands
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next to someone's table I'm not saying
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do all that as a quick backstory when I
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lived in Japan when I used to study at
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cafes something I would always do is
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about every 30 minutes I would get up I
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would go outside and I would either do a
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handstand or I would do a bunch of
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jumping jacks or push-ups or I would jog
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down the street and come back
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and it really worked you know I got a
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lot of things done I was able to learn
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the language a lot better because of
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that and I really think this whole blood
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flow thing I'm talking about is
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extremely
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underrated so that's my goal here today
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I want you guys to do it too so please
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take this advice run with it literally
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jump with it whatever you have to do
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just use it because blood flow really
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does help you learn things a lot faster
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I don't care if you have to go buy some
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things to keep it the house to pick up
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go run down the street and Chase a stray
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cat it doesn't matter whatever is going
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to help your productivity keep that in
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mind the more you think about that your
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productivity and your ability to learn
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things fast the more you will not care
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about anything else you'll just do what
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you have to do especially if you're in
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public we'll come back to the physical
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state in a minute but here's an
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important question that you should ask
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yourself is this something I will use my
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entire life or you could say will this
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benefit my life if it's only a season
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like a university for example what this
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is going to do is going to make you
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change your identity as a person and I'm
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not talking about turning super saiyan
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or anything else I'm talking about just
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the person you think you are so say
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you're studying a foreign
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language rather than saying hey I just
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study here and there or I know a few
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vocab that kind of thing it's better to
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start seeing yourself as someone who
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just speaks the language you you don't
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have to go around telling people but I
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want you to start seeing yourself as a
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person who speaks Japanese or speaks
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Spanish or German or whatever you're
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learning because you're going to start
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to go through the motions of someone who
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speaks that language as far as identity
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goes the same can be applied to maybe if
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you're learning a musical instrument
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rather than saying you're a person who
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just kind of plays here and there you're
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actually going to start to identify as a
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musician or a piano player or a guitar
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player or whatever you like to do maybe
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you're a painter an engineer a writer a
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content creator I don't know just start
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to see yourself as that person and this
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is going to help you shift your identity
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from a casual who's not going to really
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be good at anything or learn anything
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fast into someone who will learn that
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not only fast but efficiently so why is
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this important well reason number one
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one is it's going to make you value your
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time a lot more and the good part about
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this is that you're going to naturally
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stop doing things that waste your time
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this includes things like social media
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video games alcohol bad foods uh just
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whatever gets in the way of you managing
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your time well now I'm not saying these
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are bad things well alcohol is kind of
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bad you should probably stop that but if
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you value something a lot it's going to
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a lot easier to cut out those things
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that are not really matching with your
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identity I hope that makes sense and
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this is just general life advice right
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here if you want to stop a bad habit
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like drinking or eating bad foods rather
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than trying to stop all you have to do
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is find something that's equally or more
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enticing to replace it with and it
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doesn't have to be in the same category
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like if you're trying not to drink you
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don't have to find a better drink or
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something equally as good is alcohol try
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to find something that occupies your
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mind a little bit more and then you may
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see the adverse effects of alcohol as a
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detriment to what you're trying to do I
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know this personally though I was never
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a big drinker I used to drink umu and
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chuhai in Japan if you've ever lived
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there you know what I mean and one thing
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I noticed is that whenever I did drink
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those if I had like boxing or kickboxing
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practice the next day I was just not
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operating well and same with
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productivity in general language
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learning practicing my music I just
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couldn't really function well so as my
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love for those things grew a lot more I
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naturally just stopped drinking even to
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the point where I forget that alcohol
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exists personally I haven't drank in the
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last four years I think and it's not
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because I stopped I allow myself to
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drink whenever I want I just haven't
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because I'm so into these other things I
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bring all this up to say let that
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naturally happen don't try to force
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these things to go away just let it
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naturally happen and again the more you
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shift your identity the more you're
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going to value your time and the more
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you're going to cut out these things
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that don't really serve your time well
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but as a strong caution do not rush into
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this because whatever you're
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replacing your time with is probably
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something you're going to do for the
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rest of your life so Choose Wisely okay
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reason number two to is going to get you
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out of the feeling of dreading practice
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or study so the quicker you can get
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yourself into that identity of the
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painter or the writer or the person who
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speaks that language or plays that
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instrument or knows certain course
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material or whatever the quicker you can
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understand that practice and study is
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just a part of the daily routine and
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that's just the way it is and again this
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is just going to make you value your
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time more now with both of these reasons
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Don't Force It I'm going to say that
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again I don't know how many times I've
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said it but Don't Force It Whatever you
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find yourself wanting to do more just
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ease into that identify with that and
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naturally those other things will go
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away that get in your way now of course
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if you're like addicted to social
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media you drink every day or things like
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that you may want to address that like
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today right after this video really
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but if it's not that bad ease into your
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real identity and let those other things
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dwindle away on their own another
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important aspect of learning things fast
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and efficiently is that there is no such
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thing as fast and easy in most cases so
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right away I want to say that you can
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learn things fast and honestly I think
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the faster the better because you can
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enjoy it sooner but just don't think
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that it's going to be easy and in fact
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it's usually the opposite you will
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commonly see this in videos around
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language learning learning an instrument
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maybe passing school increasing your
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value as a person overall or building
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your dream body or making money online
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and so on I can go on but you guys know
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it's always this fast effortless easy no
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thinking involved just push this button
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activate your dreams I'm going to tell
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you now make it a point to stop
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consuming these types of videos you know
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it's sad that Humanity has kind of
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gotten to the point where we feel the
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need to use all these click baity
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selling dream titles just to get people
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to listen to us but I want to save you
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years of your life by telling you none
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of that works none of it the 10-minute
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ABS the 20 minute millionaire all this
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stuff it does not work okay if it's a
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fast route you can assume that it's
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going to be difficult but again that's a
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good thing I do have really good news
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though if you even made it to this part
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of the
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video I do think you're one of those
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people that can take that difficult
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route and learn things a lot faster and
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I'm not saying that to gas you up or
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anything I really believe that if you
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have the ability to just sit down and
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watch me talk about this kind of thing
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then you do have it in you you may have
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to get some things out of the way like I
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certainly had to but you do have it in
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you and the cool thing about
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difficulties is that the more difficult
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things that you do over the years of you
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doing them it's actually going to feel a
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lot easier or just easy in general I
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have a video about this by the way I'll
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put it in the
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description okay back to the physical
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aspect of things the next thing I want
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to get into is relaxation and
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focus now I know I just talked about
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handstands and stretching in the cafe
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and running up and down the street
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chasing a straight cat or whatever else
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I said but one of the most important
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things you can do for your body when it
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comes to learning things especially
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things that require muscle memory is to
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relax your body you can do this right
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away by paying attention to your
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breathing and your posture so if you're
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slumped over like a caveman trying to
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start a fire on the ground and force for
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food you're really not going to get as
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much oxygen as you need to in your lungs
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and diaphragm this isn't good because
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oxygen it needs to go to the brain as
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well to help you operate better to help
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you think better as well as your muscles
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are going to start to hurt on your back
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your neck your shoulders may hurt and
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you know those people who have the
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computer posture you might have it
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yourself actually I know I used to now
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don't overstress this don't think that
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whenever you're slumped over you're only
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operating at 2% of your power that's not
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what I mean I just mean that it's
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something that you want to start being
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aware
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of and here and there give yourself a
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cue to straighten up take a deep breath
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relax and then get back to what you're
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doing you know I've been playing music
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for a while now piano and guitar and
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occasionally well often really I still
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find myself slumped over like a shrimp
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trying to play a certain note or trying
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to play a certain scale or chord
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progression and then I have to reshift
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my focus back to my posture back to my
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breathing and then relax everything and
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get back to work the point is to catch
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yourself doing this as much as you can
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and you'll naturally see that your
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posture will just straighten out and
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your breathing will straighten out as
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well and you won't have to cue yourself
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as much but if you're new to it yeah
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every 5 seconds or so you're probably
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going to slump over but that's okay I
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started there too the next point is
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focus now I'm not going to get into
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Focus too deep I think that deserves its
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own video but one of the main things you
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can do is just to remove all of the
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distractions as possible as especially
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if you have
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ADHD this pretty much just means
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removing anything that's not involved
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with your goal and usually it's your
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phone let's just be honest now if you're
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using your phone to
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study it's fine but try to remove the
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apps that you may accidentally slip into
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I know me personally one of my
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weaknesses is that if I'm studying on my
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phone and Instagram is on my phone or I
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have something else on my phone I
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naturally can just click it
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and not even think about it I can be
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scrolling on Instagram and not realize
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it until I'm already looking through
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several reels so what I have to do is
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delete it off my phone and then I just
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redownload it later maybe you don't have
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to do that but if you have a problem
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managing that I would say just try it
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but again if you're stronger than me
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then all power to you I can't do that I
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just know my limits so I'm offering that
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idea to you as well and the last one
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we'll go over today is priming and
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visualization so priming and
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visualization are really just seeing
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yourself as that thing that you're
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trying to become and I'm not talking
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about like some uh New Age spirituality
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type thing I'm not talking about that
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what I'm really referring to is your
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brain's mirror neurons now I'm not going
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to get into that you can look that up on
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your own I'm not a doctor or scientist
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it's something that I think you should
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read about though mirror neurons
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mimicking in general and basically it's
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going to help prime your body to learn
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that skill a lot faster this is really
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really useful in muscle memory piano
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guitar Combat Sports any sport that you
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want to do dancing whatever it is that
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involves muscle memory this is extremely
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important because it'll just speed up
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that process the gist of mirror neurons
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is as you watch other people do
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something or you visualize yourself
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doing it especially if you've practiced
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it just a little bit or beforehand it
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actually strengthens your ability to do
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it again just Google this on your own do
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some research on just visualization
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mirror neurons in general but it's
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something that you really want to
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implement when it comes to learning
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things faster and more efficiently the
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three areas I've really benefited from
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this in is Combat Sports piano and
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guitar all three of these things are
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basically just musle memory and
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repetition that's really what it is at
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the core and something I noticed is that
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as I see myself do these things better
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and better more efficiently especially
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Combos and sparring or things like that
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it really just happens second nature I
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don't know how to explain it again you
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want to really Google this on your own
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but mirror neurons priming visualization
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that kind of thing it's kind of a cheat
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code to just maximizing your ability to
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learn things that being said let's do a
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quick recap so we talked about the
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physical state of the body which mainly
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today we talked about blood flow and how
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you want to do this before you engage in
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that activity as well as during we also
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talked about relaxation and focus
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breathing in posture is what you really
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want to focus on for now we also went
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over some important Concepts in general
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like asking yourself is this something I
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will use for my entire life or will this
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benefit me for my entire life the main
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focus here is to shift our identity
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again you're not trying to transform as
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a person and fly off in the outer space
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or anything we're just talking about
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seeing yourself as someone who's well
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versed in that area that you're thinking
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about that's going to help you value
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your time more and I really want to
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emphasize naturally getting rid of those
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things that get in the way
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rather than forcing it and it's going to
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get you out of the feeling of dreading
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practice or study we also went over the
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fact that there's usually no such thing
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as fast and easy if it's fast it's going
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to be difficult but if you really made
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it this far you definitely got it so I
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believe in you stop falling for Content
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or courses or anything that says you can
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do something fast and easy because again
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in most cases that doesn't exist anyhow
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