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🗓️ 15 November 2014
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions. |
0:11.0 | You and me every day, come on, let's master English. |
0:30.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English expression. |
0:33.0 | Today's expression, I love it. |
0:34.5 | Willpower. |
1:08.2 | Do you have willpower? It requires willpower. You've got to have willpower. He has lots of willpower. She has more willpower than I do. Willpower, W-I-L-L-L-P-O- l p o w e r it's one word and it means strength of mind determination the power the ability to make a decision yes or no, and then never change your mind. |
1:19.1 | To go straight, to be straight, to be strong. |
1:25.0 | Does everybody have willpower? |
1:38.6 | No, unfortunately. I know many of you, maybe you smoke. You want to quit and you've tried. You've tried for one day, but the next day you start again. |
1:46.4 | We might say that you have low willpower. |
1:51.2 | Well, believe me, it's not always. |
1:53.5 | When it comes to smoking, it's not always willpower. |
1:57.4 | But we can say some people have so much willpower, they can quit smoking. |
2:05.7 | Willpower is a very valuable thing, but it takes a lot of energy. It takes a special person. |
2:15.6 | Do you think Coach Shane has a lot of willpower? Hmm. Well, let's check |
2:21.8 | out the dialogue. You quit smoking? Yeah, two months now. Wow, that's great. How'd you do it? |
2:31.0 | Willpower. 100% willpower. |
2:36.2 | Yes. |
2:39.1 | Actually, it's over two weeks now. |
2:40.9 | It's about 10 weeks. |
2:42.0 | I'm sorry, over two months. |
2:47.8 | It's about 10 weeks for me officially quitting smoking. |
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