What Zelda taught me about success (Ep.7)

In the Shadow English Podcast, you can improve your listening and speaking through shadowing. First listen to the episode, then you can shadow slow each line. Then you an try to do the same with me speaking a little bit faster than normal. This podcast is meant for non-native English learners who wish to improve their listening and speaking skills.  Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/@ShadowEnglish4649 Episode Description In this episode, I talk about the well-known video game, The Legend of Zelda, and how it gave me perspective on life and success. Intro and outro music by Lundstroem - "Great podcast intro" (Short version and Long version) Transcript Recently, a new video game has been released that you may have heard of. It’s a game for the Nintendo switch. It is called Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I have long been a Zelda fan, ever since the original came out for the first Nintendo console. There have been many  great Zelda games over the years, notably for me, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Breath of the Wild. The latest, Tears of the Kingdom is no exception. I have been playing it quite a bit lately, but thankfully I am able to control my urges to play non-stop compared to when I was younger. In the past, when I would get into a game, it was a borderline addiction. Ha, who am I kidding, I was addicted.  Video games definitely have the potential to be harmful. But there is another side of video games that I think are extremely beneficial to the human spirit. And that is what I would like to talk about today…what video games…and specifically, what Zelda has taught me about success. The premise of Zelda (and many RPGs in fact) is that you start from having very little (and only 3 hearts (which is the equivalent to health points, or HP). And…as you progress in the game, you obtain better items, weapons, clothes, and gain more hearts as you explore the land of Hyrule, defeat monsters, and solve puzzles. In the latest rendition of Zelda (and the past game, Breath of the Wild), they take this to another level. You not only have items, weapons, clothes, and hearts that increase over time, but also you can collect korok seeds to be able to expand your weapon, bow and arrow, and shield inventory capacity. There is also stamina, and now even a battery for devices, that you can expand overtime.  What this has taught me about success is that there seems to be a lot of little things, sometimes seemingly pointless, that you can do and should do to be able to upgrade yourself. What makes the latest Zelda games so remarkable is the degree of freedom they give you, much like life, hardly holding your hand and guiding you to what you should be doing. And you do not have to collect every korok seed or get every weapon, set of clothes, shields, items, etc. to be able to have success in the game. In fact, success can be found by taking any number of paths on the journey to save Princess Zelda. Such is life that there is not one path, but the point I am trying to make is that there are a lot of small things you have to do daily that don’t give you success or raise your stats right away; but eventually pay off in the end. And it is not necessarily about grinding, as you should enjoy the journey, just as you enjoy the adventure of controlling the character of Link as he traverses Hyrule, solves puzzles, and vanquishes foes.  #ShadowEnglishPodcast #ZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom #NintendoSwitch #LegendOfZelda #VideoGameWisdom #LifeLessons #GamingAndLife #BreathOfTheWild #ZeldaFan #HyruleAdventure #ZeldaLifeLessons #ZeldaCommunity #ZeldaExperience #ZeldaInspiration #SuccessJourney