Don't put the spotlight on your mistakes

26 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Hadar Shemesh explains how non-native English speakers sabotage themselves by obsessing over mistakes. When you spotlight every error, you kill your confidence and muddy your speech, even though you know the language. Stop watching for failures and let what you've learned actually work.

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Because when you put the spotlight on, they're gonna judge me because I'm a non-native speaker, they're gonna calculate my mistakes and they're gonna pay attention to every little thing, not only that you don't show up like the confident person that you deserve to be because you've done the work, right, and you have the experience, but also you are really getting in the way of your own clarity because once you have that insecurity, it always messes up our English. It always comes out a little less than how it could be when you are confident.