Think Like a Champion, Speak English Like One
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Think Like a Champion, Speak English Like One

B1IntermediateMarch 15, 20261 hr 4 min

What does it take to think like a champion? This book will change how you think about SUCCESS — and your English. AJ's English Book Club starts "The Champion's Mind" by Jim Afremow. Champions don't just train their bodies. They train their MINDS. And that's exactly what this book teaches — the same mental skills used by Olympic athletes, pro sports stars, and peak performers in every field. And here's the connection: these mental skills are EXACTLY what you need to master English. Confidence. Visualization. A growth mindset. Feeding the positive wolf, not the negative one. This is t...

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Reading is the best way to improve your vocabulary. You know, Dr. Stephen Crashon and others have done a lot of research on this, and this is number one, reading, reading books, specifically. Will grow your English vocabulary more than anything else.

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And also reading books, it's a great way to just, you know, expand your mind to get a lot of new knowledge and even develop new skills. It's nice to watch videos, it's nice to do with the things, but reading really gives you deep knowledge, vocabulary, and for life. So welcome to the effortless English book club, AJ's English book club, we're starting a new book finally. All right, let's get into it,

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Now the name of this book is the Champions Mind, the Champions Mind, the subtitalist, how great athletes think, train and thrive. So it's a book written for athletes. Yes, but you know, a lot, a lot of the ideas in here are great for just in general achieving success, Overcoming difficult challenges, that includes learning to speak English fluently and

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