The use of animation in learning

Animation in training, or, as it is also called, ActionLearning, is a very promising direction in training. In the modern world, not a single business meeting and conference can do without a visual presentation of information and data. The same applies to the educational process. Training staff and students requires a special approach, effective and as creative as possible. This is necessary in the first place in order to create an interest in improving their knowledge and professional skills, increase motivation to work and reach new heights. Modern illustrations, animation, audio and video materials can greatly simplify and at the same time make the learning process much more effective.

Animation today is used to create electronic textbooks, and to develop other software within the educational system, to create presentations and reports on the material covered. Many teachers use modern equipment in their lectures: projectors that help make their lectures more lively and memorable. Animation stimulates the activation of students. It is especially effective in creating materials for school subjects: children are interested in seeing animated cartoon characters and watching their actions. The effectiveness of the educational process using animation increases by 89%.

The perception of information using such methods helps to gain a deeper impression and manage the attention of the audience, create incentives to continue learning this discipline.

Flash animations are developing rapidly. This makes it possible to include more modern elements in the educational process and conduct classes in a quality and organized manner. The presentation, divided into slides, will allow you not to deviate from the topic and master the subject step by step. Lectures, laboratory works, modules and test tasks - with the help of animation they become more understandable and accessible to each student.

The problems of creating courses using animation and animation are manifested primarily in the fact that the quality of the network is not the same everywhere: a low data transfer rate can significantly interfere with learning and deprive one of the most interesting moments in training - the visual presentation of the material. In addition, the level of Internet technology skills is also different. In general, the problems are the same as those related to distance learning in general.

Experts through research have confirmed that animation helps to increase the effectiveness of the educational process. The main thing is not to focus on the training animation itself, to harmoniously distribute the number of visual effects and text material and create all conditions for a high-quality perception of information by students.

Opinions and statements of experts:

“Despite the noticeable progress in the field of technological solutions, we are observing a strong methodological lag in developments that comply with the eLearning concept. Now they mostly translate outdated lectures in their format into electronic form with the addition of test questions. And there are practically no high-quality interactive training courses, with the exception of a few developments by foreign companies. This will be the next stage in the development of the eLearning market in Russia. ” (O. Pinsky);

“In general, the DL market is limited by the low level of confidence of potential students in the quality of distance programs. There is no sufficiently effective system for controlling the level of knowledge, students are confused by communication with the tutor, and not with the direct author of the course, as well as the fragmentation of the courses (even of very high quality), which do not represent a systematic and high-quality educational product. " (T. Ryzhikova).

#Literary_Terms:

🐦1. Auto-Biography:
 -is the history of one’s life written by one self.

🐦2. Act:
- is the major division of a drama.

🐦3. Antithesis: -is contrast or polarity in meaning.

🐦4. Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the literary work.

🐦5. Allegory: - is a literary work that has an implied meaning.

🐦6. Alliteration:-the repetition of a consonant in two or more words.

🐦7. Ballad: -is a song which tells a story.

🐦8. Biography: -is the history of a person’s life by one else.

🐦9. Blank Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter without any rhyme pattern are called blank verse.

🐦10. Comedy:-is a play written to entertain its audience, ends happily.

🐦11. Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old Greek and Latin writings.

🐦12. Canto:-is a sub-division of an epic or a narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a novel.

🐦13. Chorus:-is a group of singers who stand alongside the stage in a drama.

🐦14. Catharsis:-is emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences in a tragedy arouse to an audience.

🐦15. Comic relief:-a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect from audience.

🐦16. Couplet:-To lines of the same material length usually found in Shakespearean sonnets.

🐦17. Catastrophe:-Catastrophe is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.

🐦18. Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing its readers.

🐦19. Dirge:-is a short functional term.

🐦20. Diction:-is the selection of words in literary work.

🐦21. Dialect:-is the language of particular district; class or a group of people.

🐦22. Drammatical Monologue:-In a poem when a single person speaks along with or without an audience is called drammatical monologue. Example “My last Duchess”-----Br
owning.

🐦23. Difference between drama and novel:-A drama is meant to be performed whereas a novel is meant to be read.

🐦24. Difference between stanza and paragraph:-A stanza contains verses whereas a paragraph contains prosaic lines.

🐦25. Epic:-is a long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is exalted style. Example “Paradise Lost”-------Milton.

🐦26. Epilogue:-is the concluding part of a longer poem or a novel or a drama.

🐦27. Fable:-is a brief story illustrating a moral.

🐦28. Farce:-A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter.

29. Foot:-A basic unit of meter.

🐦30. Fiction:-A fiction is an imaginative narrative in prose e.g.
Lord of the fly—by Golding.

🐦31. Elegy:- is a poem mourning to the death of an individual or a lament for a tragic event.

🐦32. Genre:-means category or types of literature-epic, ode, ballad etc.

🐦33. Hyperbole:-An overstatement or exaggeration.

🐦34. Image:-is the mental picture connected with metaphor, smile and symbol.

🐦35. Limerick:-is a short poem of a five-line stanza rhyming aaba.

🐦36. Lyric:-A lyric is a short poem expressing a simple mood. It is usually personal and musical e.g. Keats’s odes.

🐦37. Linguistic:-is the scientific and systematic study of language.

🐦38. Melodrama:-A highly sensational drama with happy ending.
Example ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ –Kyd.

🐦39. Metaphysical Poetry:-Meta means beyond and physical is related to body . . . . . . . . .

🐦40. Mock-epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape of the lock”-Alexander Pope.

🐦41. Metaphor:-A metaphor is an implicit comparison between two different things.

🐦42. Metre:-The recurrence of similar stress pattern in some lines of a poem.

🐦43. Novel:-is a long prose narrative fiction with plot, characters, etc.

🐦44. Novelette:-is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.

🐦45. Ode:-is a long narrative poem of varying, line length dealing with serious subject matter.

🐦46. Objectivity:-We have objectivity in a literary piece when the author focuses on an object from broadened point of view.

🐦47. Octave:-is the firs part of Italian sonnet.

🐦48. Oxymoron:-is apparently a physical contrast which oddly makes sense on a deeper level.

🐦49. Prologue:-is the beginning part of a novel or a play or a novel.

🐦50. Prose:-Any material that is not written in a regular meter like a poetry.

🐦51. Prosody:-Prosody is the mechanics or grammar of verse.

🐦52. Protagonist:-Protagonist is the main character in a literary work

🐦53. Plot:-The arrangement of incidents is called plot.

🐦54. Pun:-A pun is playing with words.

🐦55. Periods of English literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English Renaissance, Restoration, Neoclassical Romantic,
Victorian, Modern, Post-Modern.

🐦56. Romanticism:-was a literary movement. It stands Opposite to reason and focuses on emotion.

🐦57. Rhetoric:-Rhetoric is the art of persuasive argument through writing.

🐦58. Symbol:-A symbol is anything that stands for something else.

🐦59. Sonnet:-is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen rhymed lines dealing with a lofty theme.

🐦60. Satire:-is ridiculing the vices and follies of an individual or a society with a corrective design. E.g. “The rape of the lock”---Pope.

*A student studying in Russia says:*

```The highest score for most of the exams in Russia is 5.
If a student does not answer any question and returns back his exam paper blank, with no question answered, he gets 2 out of 5.

In my first days at the University of Moscow, I did not know about this system and I was surprised and asked Dr. Theodor Medraev: "Is this fair that a student did not answer any question and you give him 2 out of 5? Why not give him a zero ?
Isn't that the right way ?"

He answered:
"How can we give a Human Being a zero ?
How can we give him a zero to someone who was getting up at 7 am to attend all the lectures ?
How can we give him a zero since he got up in this cold weather, and used public transport and reached to do the exam in time, and tried to solve the questions ?
How can we give him a zero for the nights he used to study and spent his money on pens and notebooks and bought a computer for studying ?
How can we give him a zero when he left all other life styles and pursued his studies ?
Here my son, we do not give a zero to a student just because he did not know the answer.
We at least try to respect the fact that this is a Human Being, and he is having a brain, and he tried.
Because this result which we give, is not just for the questions in the exam paper, it is also about showing appreciation and respect to the fact that this is a Human Being and deserves to have a score."

Truly I cried and did not know how to respond.
There I knew my value as a Human Being.
Zeros can actually decrease motivation on students, and can quickly destroy them and make them stop caring about their studies altogether.
Once a zero score has been put in the grade book, they need no longer care about that subject and they may assume that, there’s nothing they can do about it.```   
   
*An excellent message to all the teachers, so as to change the system of education which we have in our country.*👍🌹

*Tongue Twisters*

A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Try to say some English tongue-twisters, as fast as possible, but correctly.
Tongue Twisters are hard to say because the repetition of the same phonetic sound creates issues with pronunciation and clarity of words.
Practicing tongue twisters allows people to strengthen their speech skills. The faster a person can say the tongue twister, the finer their speaking skills become over time.
Quickly, try speaking each of these tongue twisters 10 times:


1) Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

2) A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
3) A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

4) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

5) Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."

6) Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.
Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

7) A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.

8) The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

9) One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

10) I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

11) She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

12) "Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."

13) Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

14) Three free throws.

15) I am not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate. I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

16) Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.

17) A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

18) Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

_wow iqbal_

*How can I improve myself within a month?*

 *20 ideas -:*

    1. *Detoxify your speech*. *Reduce the use of negative  words. Be polite.*
    *2. Read everyday. Doesn’t matter what. Choose whatever interests you.*
    3. *Promise yourself that you will never talk rudely to your parents. They never deserve it.*
    *4. Observe people around you. Imbibe their virtues.*
    *5. Spend some time with nature everyday.*
    *6. Feed the needy. Yes, it feels good to feed the hungry.*
    7. *No ego. No ego. No ego. Just learn, learn and learn.*
    *8. Do not hesitate to clarify a doubt. “He who asks a question remains fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask remains a fool forever”.*
    9. *Whatever you do, do it with full involvement. That’s meditation.*
    *10. Keep distance from people who give you negative vibes but never hold grudges.*
    *11. Stop comparing yourself with others. If you won’t stop, you will never know your own potential.*
    *12. *The biggest failure in life is the failure to try*. *Always remember this.*
    *13. “I cried as I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet”. Never complain.*
    14. *Plan your day. It will take a few minutes but will save your days.*
    15. *Everyday, for a few minutes, sit in silence. I mean sit with yourself. Just yourself. Magic will flow.*
    *16. In a healthy body resides a healthy mind. Do not litter it with junk.*
    *17. Keep your body hydrated at all times. Practice drinking 8–10 glasses of water.*
    *18. Make a habit to eat at least one serving of raw vegetable salad on a daily basis.*
    19. *Take care of your health. He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything*.
    *20. Life is short. Life is simple. Do not complicate it. Don’t forget to smile.*

*Keep reading this daily at least once...*

Model answers to IELTS speaking questions about Walking



Where do you usually walk to?

I’m not a frequent walker but I sometimes enjoy strolling around my neighbourhood in the evening, especially the scenic route to a nearby park that has a nice water fountain and flower garden. I find doing this less vigorous activity to be a good way to relieve stress after a challenging day of work. 




Did you walk more in the past than you do nowadays?

These days, unfortunately, I walk much less than I used to.   In the past, I had to rely on my own two feet to get to school, and I probably roamed around an hour or more a day back then. These days, however, I feel tired since I have so much to do, which causes me to rarely go outside. That’s probably why I’ve lost so much muscle tone in my legs. 


Do you believe that you walk enough?

No I don’t believe so. I’ve heard somewhere that walking can give a better energy boost to what grabbing a cup of coffee can.   I keep on telling myself that I should find an activity partner and do a nice brisk hike of at least 30 minutes every morning, but so far I haven’t gotten around to it.  I hope I can develop that good habit.



Do you think people will walk more or less in the future?

Well it’s easy to say no, especially when noticing people glued so much to their smart phones and laptops. But I have recently seen some reversing to this sedentary lifestyle like trend. There is a kind of cool watch like device, oh I forget it’s name [fitness tracker], but you can wear it around your wrist and its main purpose is to measure your pulse and the number of steps you take.  Things like these will help to promote more walking. So who knows what the future may hold.  

*What is Palindrome?*

A *Palindrome* is a word ,phrase, number or sequence of words that reads the same backward as forward.

*Note- Punctuation and spaces between the words is allowed.*

Examples of Palindrome👇
*1) Single word Palindrome.*
Anna,Civic,kayak,level, madam,mom,dad,noon,racecar,radar,redder,refer, repaper,rotator,rotor,sagas,solos,stats,tenet,wow etc.
2) *Multiple words Palindrome.*
1)Do not nod.
 2)I did,did I?
3)My gym.
4)Top spot
5)Was it a cat I saw?
6)Eva,can I see bees in a cave?
7)No lemon,no melon.etc.

* figure of speech*
*Personification*-non living things compared like human beings.
Ex- The tree said
*Simile*-comparison between two things- like, or as......as
Ex- faught like lion, as cold as ice
*Alliteration*-repaeted sound
Ex-  winged weather
Sound 'w' repeated
*Onomatopoeia*-sound word
Ex- dog barking , boys clapping
*Inversion*-word order changed
Ex- slowly he comes
Main structure- he comes slowly
*Antithesis*-find two opposite words
Ex- he lived and died
*Apostrophe*-are addressed something
Ex- "come,little leaves", said the wind
Leaves- addressed
*Repetition*-words are repeated
Ex- high tidy high tidy

                  🔴Causation Verbs🔴

The use of the causative verbs "let," "make," "have," and "get."
✳️Let

[let + person + verb]
♦️This construction means "to allow someone to do something."

♦️John let me drive his new car.
♦️Will your parents let you go to the party?
♦️I don't know if my boss will let me take the day off.

✳️Make

[make + person + verb]

♦️This construction means "to force someone to do something."

♦️My teacher made me apologize for what I had said.
♦️Did somebody make you wear that ugly hat?
♦️She made her children do their homework.

✳️Have

[have + person + verb]

♦️This construction means "to give someone the responsibility to do something."

♦️Dr. Smith had his nurse take the patient's temperature.
♦️Please have your secretary fax me the information.
♦️I had the mechanic check the brakes.

✳️Get

[get + person + to + verb]

♦️This construction usually means "to convince to do something" or "to trick someone into doing something."

♦️Susie got her son to take the medicine even though it tasted terrible.
How can parents get their children to read more?
♦️The government TV commercials are trying to get people to stop smoking.
Get vs. Have

✳️Sometimes "get someone to do something" is interchangeable with "have someone do something," but these expressions do not mean exactly the same thing.

♦️I got the mechanic to check my brakes.
♦️At first the mechanic didn't think it was necessary, but I convinced him to check the brakes.
♦️I had the mechanic check my brakes.
♦️I asked the mechanic to check brakes.

Difference between
"don't" and "do not "

Do not ( کبھی بھی نہیں کرنا /) for permanent use (Formal)

Ex:- Do not smoke .
(means never smoke )
 Do not spit here .
(Means never spit here)
Do not use horn .
(Means never use horn)


Don't (ابھی مت کرو ) for temporary use(informal)

Ex:- Don't go there .
(Means you cannot go there now , after you can go there.)

Don't laugh .
(Means you can laugh later but , not now)

Don't sleep now.
(Means sleep after that but , not now )


**In the bus we read sentences like this.

1000 Opposite Words in English

about – exactly
above – below
absence – presence
abundance – lack
accept – refuse
accidental – intentional
active – lazy
add – subtract
admit – deny
adult – child
advanced – elementary
affirmative – negative
afraid – brave
after – before
against – for
alike – different
alive – dead
all – none
allow – forbid
already – not yet
always – never
ancient – modern
ancestor – descendant
agree – refuse

amateur – professional
amuse – bore
ancestor – descendant
angel – devil
animal – human
annoy – satisfy
answer – ask
answer – question
antonym – synonym
apart – together
approximately – exactly
argue – agree
arrest – free
arrival – departure
arrive – depart
artificial – natural
ascent – descent
ask – answer
asleep – awake
attack – defend
attack – defence
attic – cellar
autumn – spring
awake – asleep
awful – nice
back – in front of
background – foreground
backward – forward
bad – good
bad luck – fortune
beauty – ugliness
before – after
begin – end
beginning – end
behind – in front of
below – above
best – worst
better – worse
beautiful – ugly
big – small
birth – death
bitter – sweet
black – white
blunt – sharp
body – soul
bore – amuse
boring – exciting
borrow – lend
bottom – top
boy – girl
brave – cowardly
break – fix
broad – narrow
brother – sister
build – destroy
busy – lazy
buy – sell
calm – excited
careful – careless
careless – careful
catch – miss
ceiling – floor
cellar – attic
centre – outskirts
certainly – probably
changeable – constant
cheap – expensive
child – adult
children – parents
clean – dirty
clear – cloudy
clever – stupid
close – open
closed – open
cloudy – clear
cold – hot
cold – heat

come – go
comedy – drama
complicated – simple
compliment – insult
compulsory – voluntary
connect – separate
consonant – vowel
constant – changeable
construction – destruction
continue – interrupt
cool – warm
correct – wrong
courage – fear
courageous – cowardly
cowardly – brave
create – destroy
cruel – human
cry – whisper
cry – laugh
damage – repair
danger – security
dangerous – safe
dark – light
daughter – son
dawn – dusk
day – night
dead – alive
death – birth
deep – shallow
defeat – victory
defence – attack
defend – attack
delicious – awful
deny – admit
depart – arrive
departure – arrival
descendant – ancestor
descent – ascent
desperate – hopeful
destroy – build
destruction – construction
devil – angel
dictatorship – republic
die – live
different – alike
difficult – easy
dirty – clean
disease – health
distant – near
divide – unite
division – unity
divorce – marry
divorce – marriage
divorced – married
domestic – foreign
down – up
downstairs – upstairs
drama – comedy
dry – humid
dull – interesting
dusk – dawn
early – late
east – west
easy – difficult
elementary – advanced
emigrate – immigrate
emigration – immigration
empty – full
end – begin
end – beginning
ending – beginning
enemy – friend
enjoy – hate
enter – leave
entrance – exit
equal – different
even – odd
evening – morning
everybody – nobody
everything – nothing
exactly – approximately
excited – calm
exciting – boring
exclude – include
exit – entrance
expensive – cheap
export – import
exposure – shelter
extreme – moderate
fail – succeed
failure – success
false – true
far – near
fast – slow
fat – slim
fear – courage
female – male
few – many
final – first
find – lose
finish – begin
finish – start
first – final
fix – break
flat – hilly
floor – ceiling
follow – lead
forbid – allow
for – against
foreground – background
foreign – domestic
foreigner – native
forget – remember
form – destroy
fortune – bad luck
forward – backward
free – arrest
freeze – melt
frequently – occasionally
fresh – old/stale
friend – enemy
front – rear
in front of – back
full – empty
funny – serious
future – past
general – particular
generous – mean
gentle – violent
gentleman – lady
giant – tiny
girl – boy
give – take
go – come
good – bad
grown-up – child
guest – host
guilty – innocent
happiness – sadness
happy – sad
handsome – ugly
hard – easy
harvest – plant
hate – enjoy
health – disease
healthy – ill
heat – cold
heaven – hell
heavy – light
hell – heaven
here – there
high – deep
high – low
hilly – flat
hit – miss
hopeful – desperate
hopeless – hopeful
horizontal – vertical
host – guest
hot – cold
huge – tiny
human – animal
humane – cruel
humid – dry
hungry – thirsty
husband – wife
in front of – back
ignore – notice
ill – healty
immigrate – emigrate
immigration – emigration
import – export
in – out
include – exclude
increase – reduce
innocent – guilty
inside – outside
insult – compliment
intelligent – silly
intentional – accidental
be interested in – bore
interesting – boring
interrupt – continue
junior – senior
kind – cruel
lack – abundance
lady – gentleman
land – take off
land – water
large – small
last – first
late – early
laugh – cry
lazy – active
lead – follow
learn – teach
leave – arrive
left – right
lend – borrow
less – more
let – forbid
lie – stand
life – death
light – dark
light – heavy
like – hate
liquid – solid
little – big
little – much
live – die
long – short
lose – win
loser – winner
loud – quiet
love – hate
lovely – terrible
low – high
lower – raise
bad luck – good luck
good luck – bad luck
major – minor
male – female
man – woman
many – few
marriage – divorce
married – divorced
marry – divorce
master – servant
maximum – minimum
mean – generous
melt – freeze
men – women
mend – break
mess – order
midnight – noon
minimum – maximum
minor – major
miss – hit
miss – catch
moderate – extreme
modern – ancient
monarchy – republic
moon – sun
more – less
morning – evening
mountain – valley
much – little
narrow – broad
nasty – nice
native – foreigner
natural – artificial
near – distant
negative – affirmative
nephew – niece
never – always
new – ancient
nice – awful
niece – nephew
night – day
no – yes
nobody – everybody
noisy – quiet
noon – midnight
none of – al lof
normal – strange
north – south
not yet – already
nothing – everything
notice – ignore
now – then
occasionally – frequently
occupied – vacant
odd – even
off – on
often – seldom
old – modern
on – off
open – closed
open – closed
opponent – supporter
order – mess
ordinary – special
other – same
out – in

outside – inside
outskirts – centre
over – under
parents – children
part – whole
partial – total
particular – general
pass – fail
past – future
peace – war
permit – forbid
plant – harvest
plenty – lack
pleasant – awful
polite – rude
poor – rich
poverty – wealth
powerful – weak
presence – absence
present – past
pretty – ugly
private – public
probably – certainly
professional – amateur
protect – attack
protection – attack
public – private
pull – push
pupil – teacher
push – pull
question – answer
quick – slow
quiet – loud
raise – lower
rainy – sunny
rear – front
receive – send
reduce – increase
refuse – agree
regret – satisfaction
remember – forget
repair – damage
reply – ask
reply – question
republic – dictatorship
rest – work
rich – poor
right – left
right – wrong
rise – sink
rough – gentle
rough – smooth
rude – polite
rural – urban
sad – happy
sadness – happiness
safe – dangerous
safety – danger
salt – sugar
same – different
satisfaction – regret
satisfy – annoy
save – spend
scream – whisper
security – danger
seldom – often
sell – buy
send – receive
senior – junior
separate – connect
serious – funny
servant – master
set free – arrest
shallow – deep
sharp – blunt
shelter – exposure
short – long
shout – whisper
shut – open
sick – healthy
silent – noisy
silly – intelligent
simple – complicated
sink – rise
single – married
sister – brother
sit – stand
slim – fat
slow – fast
small – big
smooth – rough
soft – hard
solid – liquid
some – many
sometimes – often
son – daughter
soul – body
sour – sweet
south – north
special – general
spring – autumn
stand – sit
start – stop
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9 Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work



Travis Bradberry

Influencer

25 Aug'19  6 min read

Social skills and self-awareness are matters of emotional intelligence (EQ).

Those who lack emotional intelligence are at a significant disadvantage.

All it takes is a little self-awareness and a strong desire to change.



Experience and knowledge are rapidly losing their relevance to success in the workplace. Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found that those that emphasize social skills grew by a whopping 24%, while tasks requiring technical know-how and intelligence experienced little growth. Deming also found that salaries increased the most for jobs that place extra emphasis on social skills.

With the increasing emphasis on social skills, those who lack them stand out like a zebra in a field of horses. We all know the types: the person who won’t stop talking when you’re trying to meet a deadline, the one who blatantly takes credit for your ideas, or the one who callously leaves you to pull an all-nighter to fix their mistake. The list goes on.

There are a lot of otherwise intelligent people out there who can’t stop shooting themselves in the foot. Sadly, their lack of self-awareness and social skills are massive detriments to their careers.

Social skills and self-awareness are matters of emotional intelligence (EQ), and TalentSmart’s research with over a million people has shown that emotional intelligence is responsible for 58% of job performance. Those who lack emotional intelligence are at a significant disadvantage.

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be” – John Wooden

There are certain types of people whose lack of emotional intelligence harms their careers more than others. By studying them, you can avoid becoming one of them, and, if your reading experience is anything like my writing experience, you’ll see bits of yourself in some of these profiles. Use that knowledge to build your self-awareness, make adjustments, and grow as a person.

The Coward.

Fear is an extremely powerful motivator. This is why presidential candidates tell people that their opponent will “destroy the economy” and advertisements warn that “smoking kills.” In the workplace, people overcome by fear resort to irrational and damaging behavior. Cowardly colleagues are quick to blame others and to cover up important mistakes, and they fail to stand up for what is right.

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The Dementor.

In J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Dementors are evil creatures that suck people’s souls out of their bodies, leaving them merely as shells of humans. Whenever a Dementor enters the room, it goes dark and cold and people begin to recall their worst memories. Rowling said that she developed the concept for Dementors based on highly negative people—the kind of people who have the ability to walk into a room and instantly suck the life out of it. Dementors suck the life out of the room by imposing their negativity and pessimism upon everyone they encounter. Their viewpoints are always glass half empty, and they can inject fear and concern into even the most benign situations.

The Arrogant.

Arrogant people are a waste of your time because they see everything you do as a personal challenge. Arrogance is false confidence, and it always masks major insecurities. A University of Akron study found that arrogance is correlated with a slew of problems in the workplace. Arrogant people tend to be lower performers and more disagreeable and to have more cognitive problems than the average person.

The Group-thinker.

Group-thinkers choose the path of least resistance and are famous for propagating the “this is how we’ve always done it” mentality. If you find yourself getting brainwashed with what everyone else believes, be careful; the status quo never leads to greatness.

The Short-changed.

The short-changed are quick to blame their lack of accomplishment on a lack of opportunity. While a lucky break may put a little wind in a successful person’s sails, they got where they are through hard work. What the short-changed don’t realize is that their attitude is what’s short-changing them, not their circumstances.

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The Temperamental.

Some people have absolutely no control over their emotions. They will lash out at you and project their feelings onto you, all the while thinking that you’re the one causing their malaise. Temperamental people perform poorly because their emotions cloud their judgment and their lack of self-control destroys their relationships. Be wary of temperamental people; when push comes to shove they will use you as their emotional toilet.

The Victim.

Victims are tough to identify because you initially empathize with their problems. But, as time passes, you begin to realize that their “time of need” is all the time. Victims actively push away any personal responsibility by making every speed bump they encounter into an uncrossable mountain. They don’t see tough times as opportunities to learn and grow from; instead, they see them as an out.

The Gullible.

You can’t help but feel sorry for the gullible type. They’re the ones who find themselves babysitting the boss’s kids the morning after pulling a late night of work . . . on a Sunday! For whatever reason, gullible people (often newbies) go with the flow until the gentle river becomes a tumultuous ocean. It’s okay to negotiate your salary, it’s okay to say no, and it’s okay to question the way things are done. You’ll earn a lot more respect if you stand up for yourself when the time is right.

The Apologizer.

For every person out there who owes an apology, there’s another who apologizes too often. People who lack confidence are always apologizing for their ideas and actions. They fear failure and believe that apologizing will act as a safety net. Instead, unnecessary apologies cheapen their ideas and make them less likely to stick. It’s important that your tone of voice and body language reflect the importance of your ideas. Stating an idea or opinion as a question is just as bad as apologizing. If you really believe something is worth sharing, then own it and share it with confidence.

Bringing It All Together

None of these behaviors are a career death sentence because they can be eradicated through improved emotional intelligence. All it takes is a little self-awareness and a strong desire to change.