A to Z Quick Chat 96 | Are you chill or uptight?
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the following question: Are you a chill person or an uptight person?
Transcript:
Jack
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Jack
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Jack
Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm one of the hosts of the podcast and I'm here with my co-host, Social and social, and I are going to answer another question for you. And the question is, are you?
Jack
A chill person.
Jack
Or are you uptight?
Jack
So this would be, I mean that's totally appropriate for you social to define, chill.
A
Chill. Who is someone who is relaxed, someone who goes with the flow, someone who is easygoing and you know, doesn't have a lot of worries, isn't uptight or strong, too high? And yeah, just generally kind of a relaxed and.
Jack
What does that mean?
Xochitl
And our carefree demeanor.
Jack
What about uptight? What is an uptight person?
Xochitl
Uptight is the opposite of that. It's someone who is really neurotic, who tends to.
Xochitl
Go through a lot of stress like self-imposed stress. They worry about things a lot and they usually they care a lot to like order and for things to be done like exactly how they want them done. And it's just someone who has like a lot of little.
Xochitl
Concerning your worries, every little thing is something that they're.
Xochitl
Every little detail, something they're consumed.
Xochitl
With, you know and.
Xochitl
So they have a lot of self-imposed stress, a lot of self-imposed anxiety. And yeah, it there. Yeah, it's it can be hard to be around people like that. I think especially if you're easy going.
Jack
Yeah. If you're easy guy I.
Jack
Think that we have a name for those people now.
Jack
We kind of call them Karens.
Jack
Is that at Karen's? Yeah.
Xochitl
Yeah, and it's.
Xochitl
It's kind of like you, Karen, though I mean.
Xochitl
I guess for.
Xochitl
Me. Well, duck you up first. Are you uptight or are you laid?
Xochitl
Back, I know.
Jack
Ohh OK you probably know the answer already, but I mean just by the cadence of my voice and the way I the way I talk. But yeah, I'm I'm a I'm a chill person like, but I I haven't always been chill. I mean, I've definitely had my moments of insanity.
Jack
And you know where I get really angry. Sometimes I think chill people.
Jack
It's like uh, it's kind of a vibe that people give off, but it's.
Jack
A A public persona.
Jack
And so even when they get into their when they get home.
Jack
They can kind of turn from chill to very neurotic. Like you said, you know, uptight and obsessive and things like that. So I definitely have had my moments of that, but I try to be chill and I think that's my natural setting, is that I'm pretty easy going.
발표자 3
Right.
Xochitl
I think that.
Xochitl
It's sometimes it's like not even intentional. A lot of people think of me as a really chill and laid back person, but.
Xochitl
In my own mind, I'm super neurotic and have like a lot of anxiety going on in my head and like I get really stressed out and.
Xochitl
Stuff, but I think sometimes when we're in social settings, it's a little bit of a distraction, right? Or there's, like, other things to focus on that aren't in our control. And I think a lot.
Xochitl
Of times.
Xochitl
People who appear easygoing in social settings have the ability to let go at least a little bit.
Xochitl
Oh, what this social setting of the situation? It's not in my control, so I'm not really worried. Whereas I think people who are generally characterized as high strung, like, can't really let go in any situation.
Jack
That's a good point. That's a good.
Jack
Point. So I mean.
Jack
I think the.
Jack
Thing that I think people misunderstand about chill people is that they don't care.
Jack
But it's not that they don't care, it's just that they kind of keep a lid on their emotions, right? So it's like.
발표자
Right.
Jack
It's hard to read those people necessarily, because you might think that they are. They are. They don't care. And another word for that is aloof. ALOFI believe I spelled that correctly. You guys can check me on that. But people who are aloof or they, they really just don't care, they're they're not really concerned and they don't.
Jack
That's not a good quality, I think. Chill people are like they care, but they're also not gonna gonna make a public demonstration of their anger for everybody to see. So they're gonna kind of keep a lid on their anger.
Jack
And just kind of let it go and and contain it and process it health in a healthy way and an uptight person is just incapable of kind of putting a lid on top of that anger and they just kind of blow up and and act out or say something inappropriate.
Xochitl
Right.
Jack
Or something and.
Xochitl
I think more than.
Xochitl
Like anger, I think anger is like a response to a trigger, and I feel like.
Xochitl
I feel that uptight people get.
Xochitl
Like triggered by certain things more easily. I'm not using like triggered in a negative sense. I'm saying like some little thing could really upset them that you and I wouldn't even register a lot of time because they're like, keep their heightened like then your artism is really.
Jack
That's a good point.
Xochitl
Heightened and I think a lot of.
Xochitl
Times being uptight or being chill.
Xochitl
It kind of comes down to control for.
Xochitl
Me so like.
Xochitl
We don't have to be in control of the situation.
Xochitl
And I feel like people who were uptight have to have, like, the control, or have to have, like, the only say it's like Jack and I work really well together. I think because we're both laid back. So if we have suggestions for, like, the podcast, we can both be like.
Xochitl
Yeah or no?
Xochitl
I don't know about that one or yes, I think.
Xochitl
That's a good idea.
Xochitl
But I think if we have a good team member, that was really uptight, it would be hard for.
Xochitl
Us it would be like really hard for us.
Jack
You have to walk on egg shells with those people, we say in English, right? Yes.
Xochitl
Because, yeah, and especially because like.
Xochitl
With being chill comes with a certain level of going with the flow and like adjusting expectations and adjusting your plans depending on what you think.
Xochitl
Is going to work.
Xochitl
Or what you came up with and just going from there and I think uptight people, they really need to stick with, like, the regimen they really have, like, certain parameters they're comfortable with.
Xochitl
And they don't like to be upset outside of that and being like tight is not necessarily always a bad thing.
Xochitl
It's kind of like type A personalities versus type B personalities we also use in English. That's another quick difference.
Xochitl
Before we get to yes.
Jack
Yeah, well, type B being.
Jack
A chill person and type.
Jack
A being an uptight person.
Xochitl
Of a being of type person, but I think that a lot of times type A's are better at organizational aspects and keeping things on track and type. These are like creative energies that are more comfortable going.
Xochitl
With the flow.
Xochitl
Sure. Yeah. Go ahead then.
Jack
No, no, that's it. You make a really, really good point. I mean, that's exactly what I think. I think uptight people are necessary. They keep the trains running on schedule. You know what I mean? If you let all the the chill people run this the operation you don't know when the train's coming and whether it'll eve
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