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Today's expression is very good to give someone a boost.

Give him a boost.

Give me a boost.

I wish somebody would give me a boost.

What does it mean to give somebody a boost? B-O-O-O-S-T. Well, to boost something actually means to lift something. Okay? So for a rocket going to space, there's something called a booster rocket. And that helps it lift the rocket into space. When a young child goes to a restaurant, sometimes the parents ask for a booster chair.

That's a chair, a little chair that you put in a big chair so that the child can sit at the table and eat with mom and dad, a booster chair.

So if you want to lift someone's feelings or spirits,

that means you want to make them happy. So to give someone a boost means to make someone happy, means to make someone happy, to encourage them, to make them feel good.

If you see somebody who's sad or who's depressed or who's very stressed, maybe you should

give that person a boost.

Make him or her feel good.

It's a good idea.

Check out the dialogue.

What are you reading?

Tony Robbins.

The self-help guy?

Yeah.

Reading his stuff always gives me a boost. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Have you heard of

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