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Vanessa: Hi.
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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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Let's talk about describing people.
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Today, I'm going to help you learn 82 expressions for describing people.
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There are three different ways to describe people.
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One of them is to describe their appearance.
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I have brown hair.
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The second way is to describe their personality or character.
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I'm optimistic.
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The third way is to describe their actions or hobbies.
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I'm a teacher.
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I like cats.
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Today, we're going to specifically focus on how to describe someone's or maybe your personality
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and character.
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Have you ever taken a personality test?
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These kind of tests try to tell you something new about your character or maybe put you
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into a category.
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You are a comforter.
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You are enthusiastic.
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You are a pessimist.
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Personally, I hate almost every personality test.
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Why do I need a test to tell me about my personality?
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I already know my personality.
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You probably learned a lot about me just from that statement.
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I don't need a test.
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I don't need someone else to tell me about my personality.
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Having said that, sometimes personality tests can be really helpful for expanding your vocabulary
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so that you can accurately describe people.
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Maybe you just got a new job and you want to tell your husband about your boss.
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You want to explain your boss' character or maybe how your boss looks or some things that
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your boss does or maybe you're on a first date with someone and you want to tell them
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the wonderful things about your personality.
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You need to describe yourself.
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In this lesson, I'm going to give you the vocabulary to accurately describe other people
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and also yourself.
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Today, I want to ask you six questions to learn more about your personality.
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The goal is to choose some of these nouns and adjectives and create a sentence or maybe
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a couple of sentences describing yourself.
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If you feel like this is too personal, you can kind of create a list for someone else
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in your life.
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At the end of this lesson, I have some extra special material.
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You're going to see a conversation with five native English speakers where we try to describe
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each other.
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Hopefully, this will help to also expand your vocabulary, but you'll have to wait until
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the end of this lesson.
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All right.
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Let's get started with the first question on this personality test.
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Personality test question number one.
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Are your travel plans generally organized?
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What about your home and office?
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Are they pretty tidy?
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Tidy means clean.
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Things are orderly.
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Think about this for a moment.
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Organized.
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Tidy.
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Does this describe you?
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Think about this for three seconds.
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Choose yes or no.
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Three, two, one.
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Let's say you decided to say yes.
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My travel plans are generally organized.
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My home and office are pretty tidy.
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Some great adjectives we can use to describe you.
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I'm organized.
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I'm put together.
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I have it together.
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Here, we're talking about you're life.
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You have your life together.
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It is organized.
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I'm organized.
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I'm put together.
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I have it together.
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Or you might say I'm A Type.
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A Type is compared to B Type, which we'll talk about in just a moment.
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A Type means that you are quite orderly.
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There is a place for everything in your life.
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You might also a qualifier to some of these expressions.
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I'm so somewhat A Type.
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I'm kind of A Type.
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I'm pretty A Type.
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Here, we're lessening it a little bit.
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You're not 100% A Type.
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You're not 100% organized.
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I'm somewhat organized.
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Okay.
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That's fine.
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Most of us are kind of in the middle of a lot of these categories, so it's good to use
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these qualifiers.
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I'm somewhat organized.
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You might also say if you said yes to this that your travel plans are generally organized,
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you might say I'm a doer.
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Doer.
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Here the root word is do.
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You do things.
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You don't just think about them and wait for something to happen.
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You do things.
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You take action.
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I'm a doer.
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Or you might say simply I'm clean.
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Things in my life are clean.
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I'm a clean person.
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If you said no to this, no, my travel plans are not orderly.
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My home and office, they are a wreck.
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Well, what are some adjectives we can use to describe you?
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You might be spontaneous or creative.
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What if you are not A Type, you are B Type?
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B Type means that you don't always have things orderly.
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Maybe you tend to be slower at doing things.
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You think about things a lot.
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Usually, B Type people might be a little more of the creative, spontaneous type.
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That's why you're in this list.
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Then, we have some negative words that we can use to describe these people as well.
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You might be scatterbrained.
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Here, we can imagine in your head things are not orderly.
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They are scattered.
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Scattered means unorganized.
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If you say to someone you are scatterbrained, it is not nice.
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You could say it about yourself.
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That's fine.
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I'm scatterbrained.
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But, you don't want to say that about someone else.
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During today's lesson for these words that are definitely rude to say to someone else,
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I put a little star beside it so that you know I should probably be careful saying this
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to other people because these are always negative.
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The final thing you might say if you said no to this question is I'm not clean.
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I'm messy.
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My life is messy.
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My house is messy.
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Just things are not organized.
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I'm messy.
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Did you write down some words that relate to your personality?
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All right.
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Let's go on to the personality test question number two.
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Question number two.
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Is it easy to stay relaxed even when you have pressure?
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Do small events not change how you feel about the rest of the day?
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Maybe a small negative thing happens and how cares.
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It doesn't bother you.
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You can just easily forget about it.
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Think about these questions.
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Is it true for you?
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Yes, I can easily stay relaxed even when there's pressure.
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Yes, I can easily forget about little annoyances during the day.
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Or no, it's hard for me to feel relaxed even when there's pressure.
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Think about this for you and let's talk about some words in three, two, one.
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What if you said yes to this?
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It's easy for me to feel relaxed even when there's pressure.
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Yeah.
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If there's small annoying things that happen during the day, it doesn't bother me.
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What are some words we can use to describe you?
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You could say I'm easygoing.
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Nothing phases me.
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I'm optimistic.
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I'm even-keeled.
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We talked about this word in a previous lesson where Dan and I talked about our relationship,
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our marriage together.
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He said that I'm even-keeled.
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This is a great word.
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You might say I'm confident.
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I'm calm.
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I'm rational.
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These are all things that you might use to describe you if you said yeah, I can easily
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stay relaxed even when there's pressure.
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What about if you said no to this question?
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What if you said no, I don't easily feel relaxed.
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I'm often not relaxed.
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I'm often stressed.
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What are some words we can use to describe you?
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We might say I'm sensitive.
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This means that things affect you easily.
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It's not always a negative thing.
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Of course, it depends no the situation.
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If you're applying for a high stress job, you don't want to say I'm sensitive.
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It probably means you're not a good fit for the position, but this could be just to describe
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you personally.
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I'm sensitive.
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Or maybe you might say I'm emotional.
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Your emotions play a big part in your life.
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Another way to say emotional is moody.
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Moody is always a negative thing.
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This means you're in a good mood.
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You're in a bad mood and you're swinging between those moods and there's no rhyme or reason.
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That means there's no predictability.
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One day or one moment you feel like this and the next day or the next moment you feel like
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this.
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You're moody.
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This is stronger than emotional.
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This is much more negative than emotional, so don't tell someone you're moody.
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Especially if they are moody, it won't go well.
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Do you know what the opposite of optimistic is?
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You might be pessimistic.
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Pessimistic means that the glass is half empty.
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The glass is not half full.
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The glass is half empty.
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This is an expression that means you always see maybe the negative side or what if this
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happens.
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You're always asking what if in kind of that negative way.
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Of course, it's good to balance being optimistic and pessimistic, but these are the two extremes.
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The next five words mean something very similar and they're all negative.
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I don't recommend telling someone else that they are these things.
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Of course, you can say them about yourself if you would like.
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You might say I'm uptight.
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Tight, we can kind of imagine something inside of you is maybe twisted or tight and inside
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of you, you don't feel relaxed.
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You're uptight or maybe you're anxious.
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You can say I'm anxious and that describes your personality, but you might just be anxious
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about one thing.
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I'm anxious about my exam tomorrow.
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Okay.
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Maybe in general, you're not an anxious person, but you're anxious about that specific activity.
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That's fine.
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That's not really describing your personality.
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Every day I'm often anxious.
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No, it's just one specific thing or you might be high strung.
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High strung has that same feeling of uptight, anxious, high strung.
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Or you might be a worrier.
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A worrier.
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She is a worrier.
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That means that she worries a lot.
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This defines her personality.
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She's a worrier.
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Or we might say neurotic.
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He's neurotic.
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She's neurotic.
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I'm neurotic.
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This is quite strong.
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You are uptight and a lot of things bother you.
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Let's go on to personality test question number three.
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There's actually three questions in one here.
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They are is it difficult to introduce yourself to new people?
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Do you feel tired after you spend time with a group of people?
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Is a good book or a good movie more interesting than a social event?
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Think about those questions for a moment.
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Is it difficult to introduce yourself to new people?
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How do you feel when you get together with a group of people?
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Do you feel tired?
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Think about that for a moment.
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If the answer is yes or no.
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Three, two, one.
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Let's imagine that you said yeah, it's difficult to introduce myself to people.
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I think that when I get together with a group of people, I feel so tired.
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I would rather read a good book or watch a movie than go to a social event.
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If you said yes to this, let's talk about some adjectives that can describe you.
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You could say I'm reserved.
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I'm shy.
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I'm timid.
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I'm introverted.
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Or just simply I prefer small groups.
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I know some people are like this.