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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living | Part 1

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The start of our new EE Book Club. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher,

0:05.0

A.J. Hogue. Where A.J.'s more than 40 million students worldwide

0:09.0

finally learn English once and for all without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

0:15.0

Here's A.J. with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

0:22.2

Chapter 1, Live in Day Type Compartments.

0:25.0

So first he tells a story about a guy, you know, who was really worried, basically.

0:32.0

He was worried about passing his test, his final. He was

0:37.1

worrying how to get out of medical school. He was in medical school. He was worried about his career after he got out of school.

0:49.2

And finally he kind of realized that, you know know this was causing him huge amounts of stress this

0:56.1

guy and he he found this quote and it said our main business is not to see what lies

1:01.7

dimly at a distance but to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

1:07.0

What does that mean?

1:08.0

So this quote that he found that somebody said is basically that we need to focus on our lives now.

1:15.0

That the most important thing in our life is what's happening now, you know, what we need to do today or this week,

1:21.0

not you know worry about next year and the year after that and the year after that,

1:25.8

that we really need to focus on this moment.

1:39.5

And so he realized this guy that the one important way to get rid of worry is to cut off the past don't think about the past and cut off the future don't think about the past and cut off the future.

1:43.7

Don't think about the future.

1:45.6

At least don't worry about the future.

1:47.7

Don't get stressed about the future.

1:49.5

And focus mostly on today. Focus on today.

1:53.0

on today.

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