198. The Hidden Habit That Makes You Hesitate When Speaking English

Okay, so tonight's session is called the hidden habit that makes you hesitate when speaking English.

Now, this is a topic that Many of our students tell us that they struggle with speaking.

They hesitate when they're speaking.

And there's one habit that we notice that our students have that they themselves don't realize that they have.

So I want to go into that.

And let me just share the slide with you all so that you can see it here.

So the topic is the hidden habit that makes you hesitate when speaking English.

Maybe you can guess what the habit is.

Let us know in the chat as well.

All right.

Let's go to the first slide.

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So most people think that they hesitate because they don't know enough English.

So they think, I need more vocabulary, my grammar isn't good enough, or they're just not confident enough.

But the real problem is usually something else.

It's actually overthinking.

And many learners, many of our students, they don't realize that they're doing this, that they are overthinking.

And so...

The hesitation that you notice.

So if you hesitate, when you speak English, if you go blank, when you speak English, it's actually a symptom of this hidden habit of this habit of overthinking, right? Overthinking is the habit that is causing it.

So we are going to explore five ways overthinking can slow down your speaking and what you can do instead.

Okay.