शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Daily English Podcast: Are you an Introvert or an Extrovert? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to another English vocabulary podcast episode here on High Level Listening.

Do you ever feel more like an introvert or are you more of an extrovert?

Now, today we've got lots of great vocabulary to talk about your personality.

Yes, we do.

And like always, we've got two short stories, one in British English with me, Mark, and one in American English with Kat from the US.

And both of them are packed with natural B1, B2 vocabulary that native speakers use all the time.

So you'll hear lots of different vocabulary at different levels, phrases like recharge your batteries, the life of the party,

mingle, small talk, and keep to yourself.

Yeah.

And if you enjoy learning vocabulary through conversational stories and classes,

just like this one, we have much more of that waiting for you in our My Year of English vocabulary ebook.

And we have units connected to all of our videos.

So, there's over a hundred different everyday topics for you to improve your natural everyday spoken English.

You can find the link to that in the description below.

Okay, let's get into our first story.

So, Kat, have you always been really outgoing or did that come with time?

um yeah i i think i've always been pretty outgoing i love being around people

and i usually feel really comfortable in social situations

if i say walk into a room where i don't know anyone i'm totally fine striking up a conversation

and getting to know people i definitely feed off of other people's energy

but of course there are days when i'm just completely socialed out

and need some time to myself okay so that was the first listen don't worry if you didn't catch everything.

We're going to go over everything.

But now it's Mark's turn.

Mark, do you kind of enjoy being sort of the center of attention or do you prefer your own company?

I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

That's just my nature.

I find big groups a little bit overwhelming.

Like a few days ago, I was invited to a large flat party.

And while it sounded lovely, crowded social events always leave me feeling completely drained.

I do like being social, but sometimes I like to stay home to recharge my batteries

or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates instead.

Okay, so those are our stories.

As Kat said, don't worry if you didn't catch everything the first time.

We're about to go back to the start

and go through them line by line and highlight and explain all the best vocabulary about being extroverted,

where maybe you're more outgoing and like talking to other people

or introverted maybe you're a bit quieter prefer smaller groups well

we'll start with cat's story again first uh back to the

beginning of yours you're fairly social aren't you yeah i've always been pretty outgoing

so i start with oh yeah yeah sure right yeah

so mark asked me you're fairly social aren't you

so that's a yes or no question aren't you yeah i am so oh yeah i've always been pretty outgoing

i've always been pretty outgoing now in english we do like

to use the word always it doesn't mean every single moment of every single day, but we love to use it,

especially when we're talking about our experiences or our personality from the past.

I have always been outgoing.

Since I was a kid, since I was a teenager, since I was a young adult, I've always been pretty outgoing.

Now, we'll put some emphasis.

I've always, I've always been pretty outgoing.

I've always been pretty outgoing outgoing is where you like to

try new things you like to meet new people you leave the house

and want some adventure

so i've always been pretty outgoing yeah i often see you mingling at parties i love being around people

and i usually feel really comfortable in social situations

well i love being around people and i usually feel really comfortable in social situations Okay.

So Mark said, I often see you mingling at parties.

Mingling is where you go out and chat with different people, chat with this person, chat with this person,

move from people to people.

You're mingling, mingling, chatting, getting to know people.

So I love being around people.

I love being around people.

We could also say I love to be around people

that sounds like more like a fact yeah i love to be around people but i love

Being around people sounds like an activity, talking with them, listening to them, partying with them, going out and doing things with them.

I love being around people.

And I usually feel really comfortable in social situations.

Usually, usually.

I usually feel, so this is a fact, I usually feel really comfortable.

Comfortable.

I know that's not the way it's spelled, but we say comfortable.

So I usually feel really comfortable in social situations, social situations.

This can cover everything from work, networking, from meeting people in a meeting.

It could be meeting people after work.

It could be meeting friends, talking to strangers, going to a party, everything in between.

Social situations.

So I love being around people and I usually feel really comfortable in social situations.

What about when you don't know anybody there?

Yeah, that one's a tough one.

But if I walk into a room where I don't know anyone, I'm totally fine striking up a conversation and getting to know people.

If I walk into a room where I don't know anyone, I'm totally fine striking up a conversation and getting to know people.

so we usually say you walk into a room you walk into a party right

that means you're kind of you were outside and now you're joining so i'm

if i walk into a room where i don't know anyone

okay uh uh i thought my friend was gonna be here

but i don't know anyone here

if i walk into a room where i don't know anyone i'm totally fine striking up a conversation

striking up a conversation striking up a conversation sounds like I will just go up

and say hi hi how's it going hi I'm Kat oh

what are you guys talking about oh hey how do you

know the hostess I think I've met you before do we know each other

so just going up and starting a conversation

but striking a conversation sounds like we're starting a fire you know you have like a piece of rock, and you have the lint,

and you're trying to start a conversation.

You're starting a fire, right?

So you're striking up a conversation and getting to know people.

So I know my friends, but before I got to know them,

right, I am getting to know someone is that step -by -step, asking questions, listening, finding out more.

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So we are getting to know each other.

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We are getting to know people step -by -step.

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So if I walk into a room where I don't know anyone, I'm totally fine striking up a conversation and getting to know people.

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Okay.

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So do you consider yourself a true extrovert?

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Oh, I mean, I definitely feed off of other people's energy, but of course there are days when I'm just completely socialed out and need some time to myself.

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I mean, I definitely feed off of other people's energy, but of course there are days when I'm just completely socialed out and need some time to myself.

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Okay, this is a good phrase.

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I feed off of, you don't need the of, but off of or off other people's energy.

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So if I'm feeding, it sounds like I'm eating, but when we use the word feed, it kind of means it fuels me.

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It gives me fuel, right?

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So if I go to a party, everybody's laughing, having fun.

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I get more energy from that.

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I feed off other people's energy.

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So their positiveness, oh, I'm feeling positive now too.

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So I feed off other people's energy.

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That is their energy, other people's energy.

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I feed off her energy.

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I feed off their energy.

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But of course, there are days when I'm just completely socialed out.

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You know, it's funny.

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I looked up this word socialed out because it's a term that I've used definitely in the past, say, 10 years.

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I'm socialed out.

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S -O -C -I -A -L -E -D, socialed out, means I've spent too much time with people and I'm feeling exhausted.

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I don't want to see people.

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I want to be at home by myself alone and

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if I'm just completely socialed out I definitely need some time to myself you could say some time for myself

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or some some time to spend by myself I need some

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time to myself just leave me alone don't talk to me

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so I definitely feed off other people's energy

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but of course there are days when I'm just completely socialed out and need some time to myself.

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Okay, well.

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That's a lot to absorb.

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We'll go through Kat's story one more time as a friendly conversation.

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So back to the start.

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You're fairly social, aren't you?

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Yeah, I've always been pretty outgoing.

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Yeah, I often see you mingling at parties.

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Sure, I love being around people and I usually feel really comfortable in social situations.

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What about when you don't know anybody there? in?

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I mean, if I walk into a room where I don't know anyone, I'm totally fine striking up a conversation and getting to know people.

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Okay.

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So do you say to yourself a true extrovert?

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I definitely feed off other people's energy, but of course there are days when I'm just completely socialed out and need some time to myself.

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All right.

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So let's practice and hear all the vocabulary from Mark's side.

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So Mark, do you enjoy being the center of attention or do you prefer your own company?

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I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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So I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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So yeah, through this episode, we're talking about our personality and our character.

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And a really good phrase you can use to talk about yourself is I'm definitely,

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or really, seriously, I'm definitely someone who does this.

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So I'm definitely someone who helps my friends.

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I'm definitely someone who likes to solve problems.

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And I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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Value, usually you see it as a noun, but if I value it, then I think it's important.

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So my alone time is important to me.

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I value my alone time.

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And I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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Alone time is time by myself.

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I don't think there's any negative connotation here.

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Alone doesn't have a negative meaning.

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Lonely sounds like you feel sad.

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That one's negative.

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But being alone is just being without anybody else.

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And some people feel totally comfortable in that kind of situation.

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So alone time could be being at home, reading a book, just watching TV, looking at my phone, exercising.

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All of that is alone time.

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So I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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As someone who doesn't love being alone all that often, why do you value your alone time so much?

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And that's just my nature.

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I find big groups a little bit overwhelming.

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That's just my nature.

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I find big groups a little bit overwhelming.

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so again talking about my personality sometimes you have a part of your character

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or a trait and maybe you like it

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or maybe you don't really like it

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but you can't really change it there are some parts of our character

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that we can't really change and that is my nature it's my nature

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or that's just my nature just is like shrugging my shoulders like well i don't know why i'm like

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that I don't know why that happens to me, but it's just who I am.

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It's just my nature.

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So yeah, maybe I wish I was a little bit more extroverted or a little bit more comfortable in big groups, but I'm not.

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And I can't change that.

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It's just my nature.

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I find big groups a little bit overwhelming.

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Big groups is maybe parties with a lot of people.

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It could be playing a team sport with lots of players on either team, a team building exercise with a large group.

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And yeah, it can be a little bit overwhelming.

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You feel a little bit anxious or nervous.

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And the situation with all these new people, new faces, new names that you have to remember, you have to also be social and switched on.

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That can be quite overwhelming.

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It makes you a little bit nervous or uncomfortable.

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So that's just my nature.

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I find big groups a little bit overwhelming.

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No, I'm sorry to hear that.

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Has that kind of happened recently?

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A few days ago I was invited to a large flat party and while it sounded lovely, crowded social events always leave me feeling completely drained.

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So a few days ago I was invited to a large flat party and while it sounded lovely.

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Crowded social events always leave me feeling completely drained.

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So I'm kind of the opposite of Kat here.

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She said that when she's in a social situation, she feeds off the energy.

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So people with their energy gives her energy.

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She takes some of it.

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I'm the opposite.

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Big or crowded social events leave me.

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also at the end of the event when i leave and i go home it leaves me completely drained

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we usually hear this with like gas in your car petrol in your car

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when it goes down and down and down and down

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and it's empty it is drained the tank is drained and my emotional or social tank is drained.

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The social event has taken it all and I've got nothing left.

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So it leaves me drained.

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It drains me or it is draining.

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All of those have the same meaning.

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It takes your energy and at the end, you feel very tired.

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So yeah, a few days ago, I was invited or someone invited me.

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I was invited to a large flat party, and while it sounded lovely, crowded social events always leave me feeling completely drained.

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Oh, well, that doesn't sound like much fun.

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What do you kind of like to do instead of that?

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I do like being social, but sometimes I like to stay home to recharge my batteries

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or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates instead.

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I do like being social, but sometimes I like to stay home to recharge my batteries

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or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates instead.

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So we've talked about this in previous episodes.

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So far, I've talked about how I don't like big groups.

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I don't like crowded social events.

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So it sounds like I don't like going out.

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I don't like going to parties.

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And that's not true.

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And I want to show you that that's not true.

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So I do, wait, wait, hold on, before you think badly of me, I do like being social.

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If you want to stress a sort of contrast to what you've said before that might contradict what you've been saying,

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put do and stress and emphasize it before the verb.

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So I do like being social.

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I do like parties.

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I do leave the house sometimes.

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So I'm trying to, I don't want you to think badly.

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I do like being social.

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Being social is going to social events, whether small or big.

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Going out to public places like bars, cafes, and meeting friends is being social.

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That's the activity.

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So I do like being social, but sometimes I like to stay home to recharge my batteries or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates.

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Recharge my batteries.

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You can talk about your social batteries.

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Maybe you are socialed out and you are drained and tired and you need to recharge your batteries.

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You need a break, some time alone, some quiet time, and your energy, your social energy will come back.

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So I like to just stay home to recharge my batteries or hang out with a close knit group of mates.

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Mates are friends and a close knit group.

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If you know knitting where you take a needle and a thread and you can make socks and jumpers and little hats,

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you're taking the two threads and putting them very close together.

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And a close knit group of friends are really close friends.

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Maybe you've known each other for a long time.

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Maybe you've been through a lot of experiences together and you know everything about each other.

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That is a close knit group of mates.

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And for many people, that's enough.

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They don't need a big room full of new faces and new people.

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Some are very, very content with the same two or three people for most of most of their lives.

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That's a close -knit group of mates.

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So I do like being social, but sometimes I like to stay home to recharge my batteries

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or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates instead.

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Okay, so we'll go back through my site one more time as a conversation.

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Oh, Mark, do you enjoy being the center of attention or do you prefer your own company?

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I'm definitely someone who values my alone time.

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oh why is that uh that's just my nature i find big groups a little bit overwhelming

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oh wow yeah has

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that kind of happened recently a few days ago i was invited to a large flat party

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and while sounded lovely crowded social events always leave me feeling completely drained

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oh well what do you like to do instead i do like being social

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but sometimes i like to stay home to recharge my batteries

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or just hang out with a close -knit group of mates instead okay

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so today you heard lots of different ways to talk about introverts extroverts

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and managing your social energy so let's think about your own life are you naturally outgoing

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and comfortable in social situations or do you prefer to keep to yourself

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and recharge your batteries yeah or do you love being around people, then Suddenly you feel completely socialed out and you need some alone time to yourself.

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Let us know in the comments.

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Thanks for watching.

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We'll see you for another episode of My Level Listening very, very soon.

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Bye -bye.

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