A to Z Quick Chat 97 | Are you good in stressful situations or do you freak out?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the following question: Are you good in stressful situations or do you freak out? Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of topics. 00:00:23 Jack From grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease. 00:00:35 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am one of the hosts of the podcast and I'm here with my co-host, social and today we're going to do a question and we'll answer the question for you. The question is, are you good in stressful situations or do you? 00:00:54 Jack Freak out and social. Why don't you define freak out for our listeners out there in case they don't know what that means? 00:01:02 Xochitl Speak out is like completely start panicking and lose your ability to think things through rationally and you kind of become a liability for yourself. 00:01:14 Xochitl And everyone around. 00:01:15 Xochitl You in a special. 00:01:18 Jack Yeah, if you freak out, just lose your lose, your cool. We say in English, right. You kind of, you kind of go crazy, you freak out. 00:01:28 Jack Let me see here. Are you good in stressful situations or do you do? 00:01:32 Jack You usually freak out. 00:01:35 Xochitl I was just thinking about this the other day because I was watching a Netflix show where like their plane crashes into a lake or some like huge lake in Alaska and like. 00:01:47 Xochitl The guy starts freaking out and ends up like. 00:01:51 Xochitl Ruining everything by opening the plane door and like the water, all rushes in and like girls, like really feel like she's had her head on straight. 00:02:01 Xochitl And keeps thinking rationally and and me personally, I think it probably is going to depend on the situation, but I tend to. I don't like freeze. I tend to go into action and I was trained that way from an early age because my parents only said. 00:02:23 Xochitl No one else is gonna. You have to assume that no one else will do anything, so you have to. If you see someone bus or head open on the sidewalk or something, you have to assume that no one else is going to call the ambulance. You need to call the ambulance like you need to get it together. So because my parents kind of really put that in my head. 00:02:36 Jack Right. 00:02:44 Xochitl From an early age, I feel. 00:02:46 Xochitl I it really stuck and I do kind of always like react quickly in a bystander situation or like a personal crisis. 00:02:56 Xochitl Yeah. I appreciate my parents for that because I learned about the bystander effect in psychology and. 00:03:01 Xochitl A lot of people. 00:03:01 Xochitl Will literally just stand by and stare and not do anything. 00:03:04 Jack Right. What is the? How would you describe the bystander effect? I think that's a good, good one for our listeners to learn. 00:03:12 Xochitl Bystander effect is like, let's say that you see a car crash and the person stumbles out of the car and it's like bleeding everywhere and there's a big group of people all staring, but no one is calling the ambulance. No one. 00:03:24 Xochitl Is coming in. 00:03:24 Xochitl To help, and the reason for that is because. 00:03:28 Xochitl We all like there's a psychological principle. 00:03:30 Xochitl Where we think someone. 00:03:31 Xochitl Else is doing it or is going to. 00:03:33 Xochitl Do it so we kind of freeze collectively. 00:03:37 Jack Right. Because I think the guy next to me is going to call 911. He thinks I'm going to call 911. 00:03:42 Jack Or 119 whatever. 00:03:44 Jack Your country, you're in and. 00:03:45 Jack Nobody does it. So it's like you got. 00:03:47 Xochitl Yes. And then in two weeks,