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Sep 2024
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428. How Small, Smart Choices Can Transf...

HADAR SHEMESH
About this episode

We’re revisiting some of our most popular and favorite episodes on the podcast.

Taking small actions every day leads to great results. Author Darren Hardy calls it “The Compound Effect”, and it holds for a lot of things in life. In this episode, I’ll discuss how I’ve realized it’s deeply relevant to English learning and speaking. I experienced it in acting school, in the accent training courses I took, and in the past decade in teaching and building my business. I see it in my students as well, as they put in the work day in day out, not seeing immediate results but then reach a breakthrough and impact other people around them.

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