Want to learn English more effectively? Today we’re exploring “The Expectation Effect” by David Robson and discovering three powerful mental techniques that can transform your English learning journey. You’ll learn how to create empowering study rituals, use mental rehearsal to accelerate your progress, and build unstoppable willpower for language learning. Perfect for students who feel stuck in their English studies or want to break through to the next level. Learn how top performers like Serena Williams use these same techniques to achieve excellence, and how you can apply them to master English, and master it faster. https://www.engvid.com/the-expectation-effect-3-mental-methods-to-learn-english-faster/
More of my videos about improving your learning skills:
How to stay motivated to learn https://youtu.be/LzhvbQhO6uk
5 ways meditation will help you learn https://youtu.be/5OzqpVBGnLY
In this lesson:
0:00 3 Rules for Learning More Effectively
1:49 Ritual: Rinse & Repeat
6:44 Rehearsal: Mental Practice
10:50 Reinforce: Willpower & Focus
TRANSCRIPT:
The Expection... "Expection"? "Expectation Effect". Oh, hi. James from engVid. Oh, yeah. We're doing a new segment. It's a book review. These are books that I want to give you that are going to help you learn better, so you become effective and efficient at learning.
The first book I would like to show you is this one, "The Expectation Effect" by a guy named David Robertson. Okay? So, this book is going to teach us a... Change our mindset so we can learn well, because after all, we all don't have a lot of time, and if you're going to spend it learning English, you want to make sure you get the most out of your time. Right?
So, I'm going to go over the three main ideas that I thought were important that will help you speed up your learning, but also make it an enjoyable process, because after all, I know you're here to work hard, but you don't want to feel like it's hard work. And once you use these techniques, we'll use them to help us learn English, so by learning English you'll know they work, but you'll also be able to use them for other things that you want to study. Anyway, enough talk. Let's go to the board. I have three words, but before I go there, I want to show you this thing, "The Expectation Effect". That's the book. All right? And I said it's by David Robertson... Robson. And you'll notice that Mr. E seems to be eating his tail. This is an old, old symbol. I like it because I like to think of it as eternal renewal, and what that means is you're forever making yourself better. So, it's a cycle that goes up and up, and that's what we really want when we learn skills, that each skill we learn makes us better and better people; in this case, better and better learners.
In my opinion, from what I took from the book, there are three main ideas that they try and start with, and the first one I want to talk about is Serena Williams. Now, if you watch tennis, you'll know she's been a champion for a long time, and I can't remember exactly, but I believe before she starts a match, she bounces the ball once, two, three, four, and then she hits. Well, she does that for almost every single match, and there's a guy named Rafael Nadal, he takes a cold shower before he does his matches. Every match. Now, when you do something... I want to say the word "precursor", I know it's a long word, but you do something before you do something else. So in doing it, like when you go in the shower, you take off your clothes. When you do that, you know, okay, now I'm going to go in the shower. And you do that every time before you start it, we can say it's a ritual. Some people have a ritual of they get up in the morning, they go to the washroom, and pee-pee. Some people get out of bed and go right downstairs and get a special coffee and make coffee. Delicious. Some people say a prayer. I don't know what your ritual is to start your day, but you know that when you're not able to do it, it makes the day harder. Why am I telling you this? Well, a lot of times when you start studying English, you actually just sit down, open the books, and then you go, "Oh god, I've got to study, it's so hard." If you think about the rituals I talked about, you do them to wake you up and get you ready. Now, in the book, The Expectation Effect, he talks about people who have rituals and they know that these rituals are specifically to help them do something, play sports, study, which is what we're doing, you know, or prepare for our hard speech. The ritual helps to get them energized and ready to go. It actually activates their brain to get your brain, what we call "primed", being ready to do its best work. I would like you to think about what ritual you can do. When I do this, I'm going to say "rinse" and "repeat". […]