- Here's something that really pisses me off
and it might be something that you do
and if it is it's time to stop.
Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from Doing English.com.
Here with another quick, two-minute,
English-learning tip for you.
I am a libertarian and as such,
I believe that people are free to,
to be frank, screw their lives up as much as they want
to screw their lives up.
So when people engage in self-destructive behaviours
that, per say, doesn't particularly bother me.
For example, they're fat and unhealthy
and overweight and on the brink of a heart attack,
yet they continue to stuff their face with
cake and live on greasy fish and chips everyday.
Downing pints of beer like there's tomorrow.
No, if people wanna live like that
that's completely up to them.
It doesn't even bother me that much
when people piss and moan about these things.
We're only human after all
and yeah, we do tend to piss and moan about things.
But what really does my head in
is when people engage in these self-destructive behaviours.
Stuffing their faces with unhealthy food
when they're fat and overweight and complaining
that they don't want to be.
Spending all their time sitting around on Facebook,
watching TV, and not doing anything
to improve their english whilst pissing and moaning
because their english isn't good enough
and it's causing them problems in their life
would make another pretty good example.
They engage in these self-destructive behaviours,
they piss and moan about it,
and then they do the same things
over and over and over again with no effort
or even indication that they're even gonna try
and actually do something different.
Look, I get it, you've eaten too much and you got fat.
You drank yourself into oblivion
and now you've got a hangover and you're suffering for it.
You failed to put the time and effort
into improving your english when you could
and then you completely screwed up something
that should've gone well because of your english.
I get it.
But don't do the same thing again.
Or at least if you are gonna continue
the same self-destructive behaviours
that aren't helping you whatsoever
and are causing you the problems in your life that you have.
If you are gonna continue with those things
without making any effort to change them,
stop moaning about it.
It's kind of either or.
Yeah, sure, there are things in our life we can't control.
Perhaps an aeroplane drops down on top of our house
and blows the whole thing up, destroying the
place we live and all our possessions with it.
Yeah, sure, these things do happen.
They're rare but they do happen.
Perhaps, that was a little bit extreme
but you get the idea.
But for the most part, we can control our own behaviours.
Our own actions.
And if you wanna get a certain result
and you're complaining 'cause you're not
getting it well, make sure that you're
doing things to actually make that happen
and that you're not just spinning around and around
in circles doing things that are making your problem worse
and then complaining because your problem's getting worse.
If you don't know what to do to improve your english,
if you're not too sure how to go about
actually getting the result that you want
head over to DoingEnglish.com/FreeTraining.
In it I'm gonna teach you my rocket launch method
to accelerating your english learning.
I'm gonna teach you the five key changes
that you need to make to the way that you learn
and use english so that you can
make rapid progress with transforming
your english speaking, get out there
into the real world, and to start doing stuff
in the language with less stress and less hassle,
fewer headaches and all of that good stuff.
This is me, Julian Northbrook, signing out
from another video, bye bye.
(rock music)
