Conversations · Section 6

Personality

Describing people, personality. We can make ourselves happier

Level: B1 · 17 sentences

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1. Describing people, personality.
2. We can make ourselves happier
3. by being around the right kinds of people.
4. Our study showed that people who had kind, helpful friends or colleagues
5. were 75% happier than people who didn't have these kinds of friends.
6. The results also showed that one of the most important things
7. is that our friends are honest.
8. Lots of people also said that it is very important
9. for their friends to be funny.
10. The most unpopular kinds of friends were selfish and unhappy people.
11. The results also showed that noisy people
12. were often unpopular with neighbors and colleagues.
13. Not everyone we spoke to was friendly.
14. Several people were a little shy
15. and preferred to be alone most of the time.
16. These people said that they preferred to work with people
17. who were polite but not very talkative.