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How to Concentrate on Learning English 🧠 |Podcast for English Learning + New Vocabulary with Meaning | English Unleashed: The Podcast | YouTubeToText
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This episode of "English Unleashed" explains how to improve concentration for learning by understanding and utilizing two types of focus: deliberate and organic concentration, emphasizing a balanced approach to effective and enjoyable learning.
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Hello my friends. Welcome back to
English Unleashed. I'm Tom and I'm
really happy that you are here with me
today. If you are listening now, it
means you care about your learning. It
means you want to use your time better
and you want to feel more peaceful and
focused when you study. In this episode,
we will talk about a very important
topic. How to concentrate on learning?
How to focus on learning?
We will go step by step slowly and
clearly. I will speak in simple English,
but I will also share some deeper ideas.
Sometimes I will use a longer or new
word, but when I do, I will explain the
word right away. So, take a deep breath
Okay, let's start with a question. Why
is it so hard to concentrate today?
Think about your usual day. You wake up
in the morning. Maybe the first thing
you touch is your phone. You see
messages. You see notifications.
You see news. You see short videos,
funny pictures, maybe something sad,
maybe something shocking.
Your mind is already busy before you
even stand up from the bed.
During the day, many things pull your
attention. A notification appears on
your screen. A notification means a
little message on your phone that tells
you something new happened.
A friend writes to you. An app sends you
a message.
You see an email from work or from school.
school.
Even when you sit down and say, "Okay,
now I will study English, your phone is
still near you." Like a small child
saying, "Hey, look at me. Look at me.
Look at me."
You think I will just check one message.
It is only 10 seconds. But 10 seconds
become 2 minutes. 2 minutes become 10
minutes. 10 minutes become 30 minutes
and suddenly the time for learning is gone.
gone.
This does not happen because you are a
bad student. It does not happen because
you are lazy. It happens because your
brain likes easy pleasure and quick rewards.
rewards.
When you scroll on social media, your
brain feels a small reward again and
again. A reward is something that feels
good and tells your brain, "Do this
again." So, a new image is a reward. A
new video is a reward. A new message is
also a reward.
But learning a language is different.
Learning is slower. Learning is
sometimes quiet.
Learning often feels difficult at the
beginning and the reward is later. Okay?
Not right now.
So your brain has a simple choice.
scroll and feel good now or study and
feel good later. Okay,
of course your brain often chooses now.
This is normal. This is human. You are
not alone in this. In this podcast, we
will not blame you. You will not say you
must be stronger. No, no. Instead, we
will learn how the brain works and how
we can work with it, not against it.
Okay? Many people think concentration
means I must sit very straight for 3 hours.
hours.
I must suffer.
I must force myself and feel pain.
This is not a healthy idea.
Concentration simply means your mind is
with what you are doing now. Your
attention is not jumping every second to
something else. You are listening. You
are reading. You are repeating. You are present.
present.
Think about when you watch a very
interesting movie. You forget your
phone. You forget the time. You forget
that you are hungry. You are not forcing
yourself to watch. You are just inside
the movie. That is concentration too. So
concentration is not always hard or
painful. Sometimes concentration feels
light, smooth and even enjoyable,
especially when you are doing something
you care about.
Now we will use two new words. Okay?
Deliberate concentration,
organic concentration. Don't worry, I
will define them in simple language.
So deliberate means on purpose with a
clear decision. So deliberate
concentration means you choose to focus.
You plan it. You decide when and how.
Even if you do not feel like it, organic
means natural growing by itself in a
simple natural way. So organic
concentration means your focus comes
naturally without forcing just because
you are interested, calm and in a good environment.
environment.
Both types are important. Both types can
help your English. And when you
understand a difference, you can use the
right one at the right moment. Okay. So
let's first talk about deliberate concentration.
concentration.
Remember deliberate means on purpose.
Deliberate concentration is when you say
for the next 10 minutes I will only
listen to English. From 7 to 8, I will
read this story and nothing else.
Right now, I will shadow this audio and
I will not check my phone. Okay? So, you
plan it, you decide it, and you make a
small promise to yourself.
Deliberate concentration is like going
to the gym for your mind. When you go to
the gym, you do not always feel excited.
Sometimes you feel a little tired, but
you go anyway, okay? Because you know it
is good for your body.
It is the same with deliberate concentration.
concentration.
You may not always feel motivated, but
you sit down and say, "Now I choose to
focus just for a short time. I can do
this. Deliberate concentration becomes
easier when your task is clear and
small. If you say, I will study English
this evening, this is too big and too vague.
vague.
Vague means not clear, not specific.
Your brain does not know what to do
exactly. So it becomes confused and
starts to escape.
Instead you can say I will listen to one
English unleashed episode.
I will write five simple sentences about
my day. I will learn and repeat 10
useful phrases. I will shadow Tom for
five minutes.
Now the task is exact. It is specific.
Your brain knows exactly what to do. It
is like having good instructions. Okay.
Deliberate concentration also means no multitasking.
multitasking.
Multitasking is when you try to do many
things at the same time. For example,
listening to English, checking messages,
answering emails, looking at social
media all at the same time. Your brain
cannot give full attention to many
things at once. It can jump quickly, but
this jumping is tiring and your learning
becomes weak and slow.
So a simple rule for deliberate
concentration is one block of time,
one activity,
one goal. For example, for 10 minutes, I
only listen. For 15 minutes, I only read.
read.
For five minutes, I only shadow and repeat.
repeat.
Even if the time is short, if the focus
is pure, the learning is powerful.
Now for deliberate concentration, you
can have a short ritual.
What is a ritual? A ritual is a small
action that you do every time before
something important.
So ritual here means a personal habit
that prepares your mind. For example,
put your phone in another room. Sit in
the same chair.
Take three deep breaths.
Say quietly, "This is my English time."
When you repeat this every day, your
brain starts to understand
when I do this little ritual, it is time
to focus.
You do not need a big ceremony, just a
small repeatable action. Okay. Now,
let's talk about the second type of concentration,
concentration,
organic concentration.
And remember, organic means natural,
growing by itself when conditions are right.
right.
Think about a plant. You do not pull the
plant to make it grow. You do not shout
at it. You do not say, "Grow faster.
Grow faster." No, you don't do that.
You simply give it water, light and good
soil and it grows naturally.
Organic concentration is like that. You
are doing something that feels interesting,
interesting,
meaningful, not too easy and not too
difficult. And then you notice that time
passes very fast. You are inside the activity.
activity.
Maybe you are listening to a story that
touches your heart. Maybe you are
watching an English video about a hobby
you love. Or maybe you are writing a
message to a real person in English. You
are not forcing yourself to focus. You
just forget everything else because you
care about what you are doing. That is
organic concentration.
Now, organic concentration needs good
conditions like a plant. Okay? For
example, the topic is interesting or
emotional for you. The level is not too difficult.
difficult.
You are not very tired.
You are in a calm environment.
If a story is extremely difficult, your
brain cannot relax. It is busy trying to
understand every word. You feel stress.
This kills organic concentration.
If a story is too easy and boring, your
brain also escapes. You feel why should
I listen to this?
That also kills organic concentration.
So for organic concentration, the level
should be just a little above your
current level. You understand most of
it, but there is still something new to
learn. This is like walking up a small
hill, not climbing a giant mountain and
not staying only on flat ground. Here is
another important point.
Organic concentration is very strong
when emotions are involved. When you
read or listen to a story, you feel
curious. You want to know what happens
next. You care about the character. You
are surprised or you laugh or you feel
sad. Because you care, your brain wants
to follow. This is organic concentration.
concentration.
This is why stories are so powerful for
language learning. They combine
meaningful content, emotion, and
repeated language. So your brain enjoys
the story and learns language at the
same time.
All right. Now we have two ideas.
Deliberate concentration which is on
purpose planned like training.
Organic concentration which is natural
and grows by itself when conditions are right.
right.
The big secret is this.
The best learning happens when you use both
both
not just one. Deliberate concentration
is like building a safe room for learning.
learning.
Organic concentration is like filling
that room with light, music, and life.
Deliberate concentration gives you a
time, a place. It removes distractions
and chooses a clear task for you.
Organic concentration gives you
interest. gives you joy, gives you
emotional connection and it makes the
time feel short and comfortable. So your
ideal learning session looks like this.
You deliberately
decide to study for 15 minutes. You plan
it. You prepare the room, remove your
phone, sit down, take a deep breath, and
start. Then you use content that can
grow organic concentration.
A story you like, a topic you care
about, a movie you love, or a dialogue
that feels alive.
So you start with deliberate focus and
slowly your mind enters organic focus.
At first it feels like I choose to study
now. After a while, it feels like I want
to continue. This is interesting. Okay.
Now, let's make it very practical for
your English.
Let's start with listening to a story.
Imagine you have a 10-minut story in English.
English.
In the deliberate concentration part,
you choose a time, for example, 900 p.m.
You sit in your usual study place.
You put your phone away and you say for
10 minutes I will only listen to this
story. You start the audio. At the
beginning maybe your mind wants to
escape. That is completely normal. You
gently bring it back.
Now we move on to the organic
concentration part. After two or 3
minutes this story becomes interesting.
You want to know what happens. You are
curious about the character. You feel a
little emotion.
Slowly your concentration becomes
natural. You're not checking the clock.
You are just inside the story.
Now, even with all this, your mind will
sometimes run away. You will notice that
you start thinking about work. You start
thinking about problems or you start
thinking about what you will eat later.
You will start thinking about something
that happened yesterday. That is my
friend completely normal.
The important part is what you do when
you notice it. Here is a gentle method.
Step one, notice it. Okay? Pay attention
to it. So you say, "Oh, my mind is not
here. It went away."
Step two is do not judge yourself. Do
not say, "I'm stupid. I cannot focus."
Instead, say, "Okay, this is normal."
Step three, come back. Okay, come back.
Bring your attention back to the audio,
to the text or to your voice.
Every time you come back, you are
training your concentration. You are
making the focus muscle a little stronger.
stronger.
So when your mind runs away and you
bring it back, that is not failure. That
is success, my friend. That is the exercise.
exercise.
All right. Now I want to speak to you
with slightly longer sentences, still in
simple English, but with a little more depth.
depth.
When you practice concentration, you're
not only training your brain to stay
with a task, you are also very quietly
changing the story you tell yourself
about who you are as a learner.
Many people carry this story inside
their head. I cannot focus. I always get
distracted. I start but I never finish.
This story feels true because in the
past they did lose focus many times. But
when you begin to create even very small
moments of deliberate concentration, for
example, a simple five minute session
where you just listen carefully to an
English episode, you are giving your
mind new evidence that a different story
is possible.
You can slowly start to say, "Yeah,
sometimes I get distracted,
but I can also focus even for a short
time when I decide to."
This small change in your inner story is
extremely powerful because language
learning is not only about grammar or
vocabulary. It is also about identity.
Identity means the way you see yourself.
If you begin to see yourself as a person
who can concentrate even in short blocks
and as a person who enjoys organic
concentration when listening to
interesting content then English becomes
part of your life and part of your
character not only a subject you should
study. Okay.
So, deliberate concentration gives you
structure and confidence. Organic
concentration gives you joy and meaning.
Together, they help you build a future
where English is not a constant fight
but a natural part of your daily life.
Like drinking water or brushing your teeth.
teeth.
You do not need to be a perfect student.
You do not need to feel strong every
day. You only need to return again and
again to these two simple questions.
Can I give myself a small block of
deliberate focus right now? Can I choose
something interesting that invites
organic focus to grow?
If the answer is yes, even three times a
week, you will notice that after some
months, your English feels more automatic.
automatic.
Your fear becomes smaller and your
ability to stay with one activity
becomes stronger. All right, and that
brings us to the end of today's episode.
My friends, you're not just learning
English. You are learning how to be with
yourself. How to stay present with one
small thing at a time. How to give your
mind both the structure it needs and the
freedom it loves. You may forget some
words from this episode. It is
completely okay. What I hope you will
remember is the feeling that you are
capable of focusing.
That you do not have to choose between
strict discipline and lazy distraction.
There is a middle path. A path where you
use deliberate concentration to open the
door and organic concentration to walk
through the door with joy. Thank you so
much for staying with me for such a long
time today. The fact that you are still
listening now is already proof that you
can concentrate much more than you
think. I'm Tom and this is English
Unleashed. You did something good for
your mind today. I will talk to you in
the next episode. Until then, be kind to
yourself and keep giving your attention
little by little to the things that
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