Hadar Shemesh delivers a brief motivational message about learning English, arguing that treating English as "too hard" shuts down the brain’s receptivity. She recommends reframing English as exciting and opportunity-generating; this positive mindset enables motivation and productive action to improve English and life circumstances.
English is so hard. When you say to yourself, I can't do it, it's too hard, then your brain will not be receptive. Yes, maybe English is tricky and funny and strange and the pronunciation doesn't match the spelling. But if you keep thinking of it as hard, your brain will not be willing to learn. But when I reframe it and I say English is exciting, it English will get me places. If I change my English, I change my circumstances. That's when it becomes exciting. And that from that place, being excited and happy and motivated, that's the place where you take action and you take the right action.
Read Out Loud with me! Dare to Lead by Brené Brown | Pronunciation & Vocabulary practice
