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Patrick McGinnis
Episode 113
Vocabulary
outsource (verb)
- Definition:
- to ask someone outside of your group, like another company, to do some work for you
- Example from the episode:
- “I just go with what they say, and so the more that you do that, you outsource simple decision-making in your life, you actually build up a muscle around decision-making and FOMO that is very powerful.”
- Example sentence:
- “Mary suggested that we outsource some tasks to be more productive.”
aspiration (noun)
- Definition:
- a big dream or goal that you really want to achieve in the future
- Example from the episode:
- “It’s great, in a sense, because it means that we want more and we have aspirations.”
- Example sentence:
- “Jane has a strong aspiration to learn the piano.”
inadequate (adjective)
- Definition:
- not good enough or not enough of something
- Example from the episode:
- “We don’t know if we would like to go to this place or do that thing, but we create a best case scenario, just like we put filters on social media, and then we compare our present condition to those things and we feel inadequate.”
- Example sentence:
- “His performance was inadequate for the team.”
in jest (idiom)
- Definition:
- joking or not being serious
- Example from the episode:
- “Yeah, FOMO is, it’s a word that we use in jest a lot.”
- Example sentence:
- “He made the comment in jest, not meaning to upset anyone.”