This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 1005.

Are you in survival mode or creative mode?

Find out why it matters for your English.

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today we do a deep dive into survival mode versus creative mode.

How do these two ways of thinking affect your life and your

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Hey Jessica, how you feeling today?

I'm feeling great because I'm in some air conditioning.

We're having like a heat wave right now so I had to wake up early,

run some dogs because we're dog sitting and house sitting. So I think I'm just going to settle in the

air conditioning for the rest of the day.

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