The Differences between Being Chill and Uptight

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:

00:00:01

Jack

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00:00:23

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?

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Jack

A chill person.

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Jack

Or are you uptight?

00:00:53

Jack

So this would be, I mean that's totally appropriate for you social to define, chill.

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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.

00:01:00

Jack

What does that mean?

00:01:20

Xochitl

And our carefree demeanor.

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Jack

What about uptight? What is an uptight person?

00:01:26

Xochitl

Uptight is the opposite of that. It's someone who is really neurotic, who tends to.

00:01:34

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.

00:01:57

Xochitl

Concerning your worries, every little thing is something that they're.

00:02:02

Xochitl

Every little detail, something they're consumed.

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Xochitl

With, you know and.

00:02:05

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.

00:02:17

Jack

Yeah. If you're easy guy I.

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Jack

Think that we have a name for those people now.

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Jack

We kind of call them Karens.

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Jack

Is that at Karen's? Yeah.

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Xochitl

Yeah, and it's.

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Xochitl

It's kind of like you, Karen, though I mean.

00:02:27

Xochitl

I guess for.

00:02:28

Xochitl

Me. Well, duck you up first. Are you uptight or are you laid?

00:02:31

Xochitl

Back, I know.

00:02:32

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.

00:02:51

Jack

And you know where I get really angry. Sometimes I think chill people.

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Jack

It's like uh, it's kind of a vibe that people give off, but it's.

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Jack

A A public persona.

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Jack

And so even when they get into their when they get home.

00:03:08

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.

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발표자 3

Right.

00:03:28

Xochitl

I think that.

00:03:30

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.

00:03:36

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.

00:03:45

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.

00:03:57

Xochitl

Of times.

00:03:58

Xochitl

People who appear easygoing in social settings have the ability to let go at least a little bit.

00:04:05

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.

00:04:18

Jack

That's a good point. That's a good.

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Jack

Point. So I mean.

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Jack

I think the.

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Jack

Thing that I think people misunderstand about chill people is that they don't care.

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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.

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발표자

Right.

00:04:35

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.

00:04:54

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.

00:05:08

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.

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Xochitl

Right.

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Jack

Or something and.

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Xochitl

I think more than.

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Xochitl

Like anger, I think anger is like a response to a trigger, and I feel like.

00:05:37

Xochitl

I feel that uptight people get.

00:05:40

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.

00:05:53

Jack

That's a good point.

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Xochitl

Heightened and I think a lot of.

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Xochitl

Times being uptight or being chill.

00:06:01

Xochitl

It kind of comes down to control for.

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Xochitl

Me so like.

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Xochitl

We don't have to be in control of the situation.

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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.

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Xochitl

Yeah or no?

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Xochitl

I don't know about that one or yes, I think.

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Xochitl

That's a good idea.

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Xochitl

But I think if we have a good team member, that was really uptight, it would be hard for.

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Xochitl

Us it would be like really hard for us.

00:06:36

Jack

You have to walk on egg shells with those people, we say in English, right? Yes.

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Xochitl

Because, yeah, and especially because like.

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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.

00:06:53

Xochitl

Is going to work.

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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.

00:07:06

Xochitl

And they don't like to be upset outside of that and being like tight is not necessarily always a bad thing.

00:07:14

Xochitl

It's kind of like type A personalities versus type B personalities we also use in English. That's another quick difference.

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Xochitl

Before we get to yes.

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Jack

Yeah, well, type B being.

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Jack

A chill person and type.

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Jack

A being an uptight person.

00:07:27

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.

00:07:39

Xochitl

With the flow.

00:07:40

Xochitl

Sure. Yeah. Go ahead then.

00:07:42

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 ever reach its destination.

00:08:02

Xochitl

It's happening.

00:08:03

Jack

But it'll look amazing. It'll have. It'll be painted really beautiful colors.

00:08:05

Xochitl

Yeah, it looks like a dragon or something. It's.

00:08:09

발표자

Gonna be all.

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Xochitl

All thrills and like I.

00:08:12

Xochitl

I think like everything, I don't think we're totally chill or totally uptight. I think it's like a spectrum. I think Jack and I tend to be like a little more towards the chill side. If anyone remembers our old podcast mate Kevin, he was still chilled, but like a little more towards like the structured sides of the thing, I wouldn't come up.

00:08:32

Xochitl

Like he was more like structured.

00:08:34

Xochitl

And uhm, that was good, because it would keep us on track and stuff like that. And but it was just like a different dynamic. So I don't think it's only the negative thing. It's just like someone uptight.

00:08:38

Jack

Yeah, yeah.

00:08:49

Xochitl

Or with more structure or more of a type A personality, they can keep things on track more than a type B person, but at the same time a type B person will be like more creative. So there is like benefits and negatives to both I think.

00:09:02

Jack

I think you too, if you're too chill, you become kind of a doormat for people. They take advantage of you, and if you're too uptight, you're gonna die young because you're just stressing about things that.

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Jack

You can't control.

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Jack

You know, getting angry at the.

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Xochitl

Anything you like?

00:09:15

Jack

Traffic. I mean it's.

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Jack

Not you. You can't control that so.

00:09:19

Xochitl

You also might become a monster if you're too uptight. I think like it's like type B chill person. Now that you might be like a doormat and type A can get, like, really domineering. So I think it's like, but yeah, it just really depends. But I I think there are pluses and negatives to both and there's definitely positives to both.

00:09:39

Xochitl

So yeah, let us know if you are a.

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Xochitl

Chill person or an uptight person. We the comment down below on our website A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ English podcast at.

00:09:51

Xochitl

Gmail.com or join our website group and we'll see you.

00:09:55

Xochitl

Guys, next time.

00:09:56

발표자 3

Bye bye.

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