So welcome to Module Three, where we're going to be talking about the emotional side to languages. So as human beings, we like to think that we're very logical and rational creatures. But at the end of the day, when it comes down to real time decision making, we're often overruled by our emotional state. So this is why I've been a module on emotions, because they're very important when it comes to language learning. So we're going to talk about uncomfortable emotions in particular, because this is where the learning process can begin our end. So for me, I used to always assume that uncomfortable emotions were something to be avoided like the plague, I didn't want to feel them felt uncomfortable, I felt out of place.

I didn't want to go near them. Over time, I started to realize through learning French that this was limiting me in the situations I was putting myself in. So I was getting very little practice speaking. I was sticking to what I knew, and I think that I didn't know I felt uncomfortable, so I wouldn't do too much of it if I didn't have to do it. What I realized over time, is that Wasn't productive. I wasn't getting better French, so I had to start looking at it in a different way.

So for me it started with questions. So instead of having this assumption that uncomfortable emotions were a bad thing, I started questioning What's wrong with it? Why is it so bad to start feeling uncomfortable? Why can't I sit with it more and be in situations where I'm feeling uncomfortable and data? So I started to realize that once I started doing that, I started expanding what I could and couldn't do. So instead of being in a small bubble of this is me, this is my world.

Very small, I started to realize I can push those boundaries outwards. So what this led to me eventually doing was to learn Spanish and Italian in a new way. When I came across language hacking for us, it was very challenging to my mental models of how the world worked very challenging to how my education how, how I understood things, my education. So initially, that was very uncomfortable, but I was willing to entertain these new ideas, to pertain these new targets, actually upload them and try them off myself. Then involves a lot of uncomfortable feelings, but meant I spoke three languages within a few years rather than a few decades. So, again, I played a principle moving into other areas of my life.

So once you get a handle in one area, you start seeing the application of it in another area. So I created a podcast, I started doing this course today. These are all things that I've felt uncomfortable doing, but I've done them because I know that when you sit with discomfort you learn from it. So that's the reframe, for discomfort. Another benefit of, of this of being more in tune with your emotions is that you become more aware of the subconscious mind and the power of the subconscious mind. So there's a great book called The power of your subconscious mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy, he lays out a better understanding of the subconscious mind and how it works.

One of the principles that helps me today is that I know that the conscious mind thinks in pictures and images. So when it comes to learning new words in the real world, when you're in new scenarios, and you make a mistake of a word, and somebody corrects you, when you can make light out of that and make it in To enjoy a situation, you're more inclined to remember the word initial reading from a book. That's been my experience so far anyway. But on the flip side, if you're not in tune with your emotions and you perceive that as something negative dinner, the tendency to try and block that out of your subconscious mind. So you're not having access to that word as easily just because you're not as in tune with your emotions and, and the possibility of reframing something that could have been negative to something that was a bit more positive, or something you could learn the lesson from.

So just practically speaking, the more that you can be in tune with your emotions, the more intersections of conscious mind and the way of things the better you're going to accelerate your language learning. So I hope this is helpful emotions are play a big part in speaking the language and communicating. On the next video, we're going to talk about the principle of focus and how to harness this to your benefit as a language learner. So see you in the next video.