Hi this is AJ. Welcome to lesson number 6, today's topic "Models." Models are very important, and by model I mean role model, not the models you see on magazines.

Hi this is AJ. Welcome to lesson number 6, today's topic "Models." Models are very

important, and by model I mean role model, not the models you see on magazines.

That's a different meaning. A role model is kind of like a hero. It's someone that has

success, the same kind of success that you want. So, for example, if you are a

basketball player, you want to be great then maybe Shaquille O'Neal or Michael Jordan

is your role model, maybe both. It's important to have role models. Role models are

people who have done already what you want to do. Why is that important? Well, it's

important because you can learn from them. You can learn much faster if you find out, if

you discover what they did to succeed. This is the fast track for success. You don't

have to make all the same mistakes. You can copy them in a way and learn much,

much faster.

So, for example, when I started my own business, in the beginning I knew nothing, zero,

I had no idea what to do. I was just an English teacher. Now I had two choices, I could

have just tried something, tried something else, kept trying things, trying things, making

mistakes, failing, try again. And I did do that somewhat. But I wanted to succeed faster.

That would be a very slow method if I only experimented, if I only tried and failed, tried

and failed, and tried to find everything by myself. So, of course, I wanted to succeed

faster, so what did I do? I went and I found role models. I found other people who were

already successful business people. I read their books. I went to their seminars and

their workshops. I learned everything possible from them. And then I used what I

learned with my own business. And in this way I was able to succeed much, much

faster. I could take all the great strategies that they were using, that they discovered in

their life, maybe with many, many years. I could take all those great strategies and I

could use them in months or in weeks.

Well you can do the same thing with your English learning or with anything. You can

find role models, people who are total masters, and you can steal their ideas. You can

steal the best ideas, the best strategies, the best methods that they have used, and you

can copy those so that you will learn much, much faster. You will make fewer mistakes.

So that's why role models are so important. They speed up the learning process, they

boost it up. They also, of course, give you an emotional boost because you can see,

hey, they did it. Somebody already did what I want to do. It proves it's not impossible, it

can be done. And I also had that a little bit with my business. I was a little bit scared. I

was an English teacher. I didn't know much about business. But the more I read about

all these other people who started, like me, with no knowledge of business, with no

money, but they did certain things and those certain actions led to success. Those

certain strategies led to success and I realized if I used the same strategies I will get the