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  • Hey everybody, how’s it going? This is me your trainer, Meera. Well today I will be

  • talking about a question that I found the most difficult to answer and that is, “describe

  • yourself in one word?” I know what youre thinking, how can I? I have been living for

  • so many years, how can I just describe in one word? There are so many qualities that

  • I have, how can I choose one? But it is a very frequently asked question in sorts of

  • interviews, right? So you have to get through this and you have to understand. Well I have

  • got a variety of adjectives that will help you pick the one that suits you, probably

  • you can get inspired or look for the one that goes with your personality, okay? So let’s

  • get startedAlright, guys, the reason why I like adjectives so much, is because they

  • are very playful, fun very intelligent and expressive. Once your vocabulary gets stronger,

  • you will start enjoying them and using them in different areas and sentences. When anyone

  • asks you such a question, such as, “describe yourself in one word?” Don’t get confused,

  • don’t worry, the question also meanswhy?’ so that you support your one word. Fair enough,

  • imagine I said this, “Describe yourself in one word?” ‘Curious’, that’s very

  • random, so let’s get startedfirst one isindustrious’. Are you someone who

  • is hard working in each task, who keeps busy and active most of the times? Then you are

  • industrious. Let’s look at the sample answer that you could use, “I am industrious, because

  • I am very hardworking that I keep myself constantly active at any task that I take up. A very

  • smart word to impress right, a very nice word to talk about which shows off that, hey, I

  • have a great vocabulary. Well the next one isupbeat. Are you someone who is cheerful,

  • and optimistic most of the times? Optimistic as in confident about the future. Someone

  • who can look at it positively, well then you are an upbeat person. Very cheerful and optimistic.

  • A nice combination of two adjectives to describe yourself, right? Cheerful and optimistic.

  • Here is an answer you can always prepare to add up to it, ‘I am an upbeat person, this

  • nature helps me in overcoming a lot of challenges & difficulties.’ Short and sweet yet it

  • will give you the answer that you want. Next up, ‘charismatic’. This one is specifically

  • one of my favorites, this means people who have the ability to effortlessly winning the

  • affections of others around them. Do you know that these people have a very glowing sort

  • of personality when they walk in a room? They can charm you in just few moments, just by

  • being themselves, especially when it comes to an interview, they can just charm anyone

  • in front of them with their personality. Here’s how you can put this answer, ‘In one word,

  • I’m charismatic, my friends and family have always complimented me on this and I feel

  • grateful for that.’ Now guys, understand you have to say this very gently and also

  • in a way that is respectful towards others as well, because if you are arrogant, that

  • will take you nowhere. It will just sound egoistic on your part and not charismatic,

  • so be humble. Next one, ‘diligent’. Right, so these are the people with perseverance

  • in carrying out task. They are perseverant in carrying out tasks. They work hard until

  • the job is well done. This is how you can add to your answer, ‘I’m diligent, I take

  • great care in doing things right and till the end.’ Now if you are a lazy person,

  • then you should get inspired by the diligent ones to achieve something in life, to move

  • forward in life, okay? Next word isexuberant’. Sounds very dramatic and sounds very and good,

  • right? Well if you are someone who is unrestrained, especially with regards to feelings, someone

  • who is full of joy and has a lot of energy to show itthat is being exuberant. That

  • means you are exuberant and unrestrained. You don’t have any restrictions that way.

  • Well this is someone who doesn’t limit expressing joy and a lot of energy. Okay, this is how

  • you can answer, ‘Being exuberant delights me as there’s no harm in spreading joy and

  • a great energy, although I do not overdo it all the time.’ Well then you seem like a

  • balanced person to the recruiters, when they hear that you are not always overdoing joy

  • and happiness and energy, right? So this you have to put it in a balanced structure. Next

  • word we have, ‘intuitive’. This is a person who has obtained this through instinctive

  • knowledge guys. Now if you are someone who sort of, has a special feel towards certain

  • situations that you understand that, ‘hey, you know what, my heart says…’ usually

  • you would use words like, ‘heart’, myintuition’, myinstinct’, then you

  • are a very intuitive, okay? Let’s look at a sample sentence or a sample answer, ‘I’m

  • intuitive’. ‘Being intuitive really helps me in believing my decisions and learn each

  • time if at all they were wrong.’ ‘This makes me and my intuitions even strong the

  • next time to perform’, okay? Here’s how you put all these words in a long sentence.

  • Alright, next word is, ‘practical’. A person guided by experience and observation

  • rather than just theory. Are you this person? Are you very practical? Then here is a way

  • you can answer this, ‘I am practical, if I have to answer it on one word’. ‘This

  • makes me look at things in reasonable and a level headed way.’ Moving on to the next

  • one guys, here comesrational’. Alright, now there are some people around you probably

  • you know some who are, guided by intellect more than anything. Now what does intellect

  • mean? Intellect as in judgement, wisdom, thought or mind the brain power that comes through

  • experience and observation. These people are rational people. They are usually guided by

  • intellect, alright? Rational people are also very, very practical at the same time. They

  • make decisions based on logical reasoning and not on emotions. In fact very less emotions

  • while making decisions. Now of course it’s not always the best to be where you have emotions

  • at all, but hey there are certain people who can take rational decisions especially when

  • it comes to work and that is great. Let’s look at an example, ‘I am a rational person,

  • I tend to look at the situations more practically and with logical reasoning.’ Isn’t this

  • now professional? I know. So you can always use it this way. Next up is, ‘resourceful’.

  • Guys, I really like such people. They are the ones who are clever, skillful or imaginative.

  • That means this is a person who uses creativity and the things around them to tackle a problem.

  • They sometimes see a solution in things that others just can’t see, okay? If you are

  • someone who is like this, then go ahead and impress your recruiters by saying I am resourceful

  • and say it with a sweet smile, right? Being resourceful, really benefits people around

  • me and that is what motivates me. See how the small word and a short sentence can make

  • a wholesome answer. Alright, next one iswitty’. Now this person is quick and inventive at

  • showing verbal humour also with intelligence, okay? People usually who read a lot observe

  • things very keenly and minutely are generally very witty. It is not just about making people

  • laugh. That’s not just being witty, you need to be very, very smart to understand

  • a witty person’s joke. Here’s how you can put it in a sentence if you are witty,

  • In one word, I’m witty, that is what I have got to know from my friends and family,

  • they really boost my confidence whenever they say this’. Okay, you can always add a nice

  • smile to this as well and it will give a great impression. Next up we have, ‘observant’.

  • Observant is the person who is good at noticing things differently around them and that person

  • is an observant, you can always say, ‘I am observant.’ I would like to describe

  • myself as an observant, in one word.’ This is also how you can put it. This quality of

  • mine helps me learn new things and in applying them in different situations as well, okay?

  • Now that is how you can put it in an answer. Also guys did you know that Stand-Up comedians

  • need to have this quality to write good jokes and to come up with a great script, that can

  • make you laugh, based on small observations. Alright, next up is, ‘proactive’. These

  • are the people who don’t wait for things to happen to them, they are the ones who will

  • get up from their chair wherever they are sitting and they make them happen for themselves.

  • Students these days are so engrossed in their phones that they are lazy and not at all proactive.

  • But believe me, being proactive will take you further ahead in life and things won’t

  • come to you just by sitting. You have to go behind them, you have to run behind them.

  • Now if you are someone with such a quality, make sure you use this adjective, proactive.

  • And guys lastly we have, ‘decisive’, right? Are you someone who can make decisions very

  • quickly and confidently? Then you are a decisive person. Well guys the thing about this person

  • is that, he is very fast in making decisions. So he can think very fast and come to a conclusion.

  • You can always say, ‘I am decisive but this is only possible because of my rational thinking,

  • my logical thinking’. See how we included two adjectives but gave only one word answer

  • to begin with, make sure you use these otherwise as well to describe yourself or probably others

  • just to understand the use of this, even better. Now guys make sure you go through many more

  • lessons of mine, right here somewhere. Make sure that you keep practicing, write to me

  • in the comment section what kind of a person you are, I will see you with another interesting

  • topic very soon, right here, until thenkeep practicing, keep smiling spread a lot

  • of love, this is me Meera signing off for the day, ciao

Hey everybody, how’s it going? This is me your trainer, Meera. Well today I will be

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