AEE 316: Are You Obsessed with English Learning? Should You Be?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Get our free IELTS video training now Do you think it’s important to obsess over something to become successful at it? Another way to say it is ” to have tunnel vision.” Another word for obsession could be “focus” but it has more of a positive connotation. When we get really focused we have to be careful of burnout. We could get exhausted. When it comes to learning English you should chunk down the learning into bite-sized pieces and be sure that you are learning in a way that is fun for you. Come back to our site to leave a comment and have a conversation with us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 316. Are you obsessed with English learning? Should you be?
0:08.0	Welcome to the All-Eears English podcast downloaded more than 7 million times. We believe in
0:15.4	connection not perfection with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon the
0:20.9	English adventurer and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you
0:27.0	from Boston and New York City, USA.
0:31.8	On today's episode you'll hear Lindsay and Michelle's perspectives on
0:38.6	obsession, focus, burnout, and tunnel vision when it comes to learning languages.
0:45.0	Hey Michelle, how are you today?
0:49.0	Oh, I'm good, I'm good, Lindsay, how are you?
0:52.0	I'm good, I'm kind of losing my voice I've been recording episodes all afternoon so
0:56.4	yeah getting to the end here but you know I'm feeling good
1:00.0	go ahead okay all right you can do it I believe you. I know it takes a lot of voice power to podcast. You know. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely and it takes a little bit of an obsessive mind too I think.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	Michelle what does it mean to obsess over something?
1:16.0	It means to like to kind of be not crazy about it but to just think about it all the time
1:21.5	and to want to do something all the time.
1:23.6	Exactly kind of to have tunnel vision right? Yeah. Tunnel vision you only think
1:29.8	about one thing. Right right so would you say you're obsessed with recording, Lindsay? I don't know about that. I really love
1:37.6	podcasting and I love podcasts. I have like 10 other podcast shows that I listen to all the time and I'm pretty
1:44.9	obsessed with podcasting I would say actually. Well that's good good I'm
1:48.9	glad to hear and I bet our listeners are too because I've heard some statistics that the average podcast
1:55.0	listener is an obsessive podcast listener.
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