Learn the English Phrases "an open mind" and "in the open"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn the English phrase an open mind.
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When you have an open mind, it means that
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you're willing to listen to other points of view.
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It means that even if you've decided you think
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something is a certain way, you're willing to listen
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to other people say that they think it's different.
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Here's a good example.
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When I was young, I remember that we had garbage
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day, but we didn't have recycling day and the town
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decided that we were going to start recycling.
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But before that they wanted everyone
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to come for a special meeting.
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And I remember my dad saying, I'm
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going to go to the meeting.
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I don't think recycling is going
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to really be a good thing. He was wrong.
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But I'm going to keep an open mind.
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I'm going to have an open mind when I go
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to the meeting and I'm going to listen to what
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other people say, because maybe it is a good idea.
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So when you have an open mind, it means
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you think one thing, but you are willing to
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discuss an alternate thing as well with other people.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach
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you today is in the open.
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Sometimes people do things in secret, but
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sometimes they do things in the open.
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A good example of this would be when
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Jen and I are working at market.
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We're working in the open.
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People can see us make the
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bouquets while we're at market.
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But the night before, Jen works at home in her
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flower studio and then she's not really doing it in
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secret, but you can't see her make the bouquets.
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Sometimes people do things in the open
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so that people can see it.
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Sometimes when they count votes, after a vote,
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they will do it in the open so
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that it's all done fairly and correctly.
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So to review, when you have an open mind,
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when you keep an open mind, when you go
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somewhere with an open mind, it means you're willing
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to hear a different point of view.
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And when you do things in the open, it
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means other people can see you doing it.
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There's some things you shouldn't do
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in the open, by the way.
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There's some things you should always do in secret.
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I'm not going to go into too many details, but
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let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Natalia. Hi, Bob.
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Do your dogs have their own dog houses or kennels?
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It should be relatively warm there.
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And my response, they sleep in the garage at
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night and on days when it is too cold.
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So yes, our dogs, they don't actually have....
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well, we had a dog house, but
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it blew down or it blew away.
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And we don't have a kennel for them, but they
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are allowed to go in the garage at night.
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We often have our dogs in the garage at night.
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In the winter especially... actually year round, they just sleep
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in the garage and they both have their own little
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crate, we call it, which is like a little pen,
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I guess they could go in, but we don't close the door.
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And they also can go in the barn sometimes.
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So it's not the nicest place to go.
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But we will take the dogs out to the
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barn and then that's a little warmer for them.
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Hey, I'm at the fire station.
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I've been here before, but I haven't been here for
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a while, so I was just going to walk up.
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You can see me in the window.
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You can sort of see in, in our town,
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the fire trucks are red. In some towns,
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in some cities, the fire trucks are
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actually yellow, but ours are red.
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And it looks like they're ready to go.
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If there was a fire or a car
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accident, that's when our firefighters actually go out.
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Now, we operate in this
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town with volunteer firefighters.
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We don't have full time firefighters, so if there's a fire, they
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are notified and they drive to the fire station and then they
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jump into the fire truck and they go to the car accident
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or fire and do what they need to do.
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So even though we have volunteer firefighters,
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though, they still do get paid.
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It's a little confusing and hard to explain,
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but that's how the system works here.
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You can see the nice Canada flag right
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there and the fire station behind me.
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Anyways, thanks for watching. Have a good day.
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I'll see you in a couple of
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days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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