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Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. Here I am again, feeding your brain with English in an entertaining, educational and informative way. Today, I'm asking the question, is the glass half empty or half full? I expect you're aware of this idea. You've heard this before, right? These expressions,

the glass is half empty, the glass is half full. If you're a premium subscriber, and you've heard

P77 part one that I uploaded recently, then you heard me talking about it a little bit there as well. But anyway, the glass is

half empty or the glass is half full. Now, if you look at a glass, let's say a glass which can hold

200 millilitres of water, and it has exactly 100 milliliters inside it, is that glass half empty or is it half full? The way you

answer that question tells us something about your personality. It reveals something about

the way you see the world if you have a negative or positive outlook on things. If you say the

glass is half empty, it means you're a pessimist

and you have a generally negative view of things. You see the emptiness in the glass,

you focus on the lack of water, you're a glass half empty type of person. But if you say the glass

is half full, it means you're an optimist and you have a more positive

view of things. You focus on the water in the glass and you're a glass half full type person.

In this episode then, I'm talking about being an optimist or a pessimist, what this means,

why people tend to be optimistic or pessimistic, how we talk about these things in English,

and which one is the better mindset for learning English? Here are some questions for you to

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