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Hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast and I hope that you're feeling good

about yourself and feeling good about the world because that's the sort of mindset that

you should have really in general.

If possible you should try and maintain a positive outlook.

You should try and be an optimist if you can.

It's always good to look on the bright side.

Try to remember that the bright side.

Try to remember that the cup is half full, not half empty.

Do you know that expression, you know, the cup's half full or the cup's half empty,

which is just another way of saying that if you know if you believe that the cup is half full,

then you're an optimist and if you see the cup and consider it to be half empty, then you're a pessimist.

To be honest, any cup unless it's in some kind of vacuum, is always 100% full.

It may be 50% full of H2O of water, but the remaining part of that cup is not empty I mean there is air in there there's you know

all the molecules and stuff that you get in air so it's completely full unless somehow you

manage to get a situation where you've put that cup or that glass into a vacuum and you've managed to find the exact 50% spot within that cup if you've measured the surface area of the inside of that cup and then

you've managed to perfectly drip, you know, tiny amounts of liquid until you've reached

the perfect 50-50 ratio inside the cup.

Then, I suppose then you could say that it's half full because it's in a vacuum.

There's literally...

Yes, okay. I don't think we're supposed to think so in-depth about expressions like this, or the

cups half full, the cups half empty, that kind. I don't think we're supposed to really think

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