Learn the English Phrases "stuck in your ways" and "to be stuck on something"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase stuck in your ways.

When you're stuck in your ways, it means you

do certain things a certain way, and you will

not change the way you do it.

You are stuck in your ways.

I'm stuck in my ways for some things.

Like, for instance, many people have suggested that I stop

using a piece of paper, that I should get an

iPad or something else that I bring outside.

But I'm kind of stuck in my ways.

I like bringing the piece of paper outside.

I do recycle all of these, but for me, it's

just, it's a little simpler to use paper sometimes.

So I'm a little stuck in my ways.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is to be stuck on something.

So this is when you don't understand something.

If you remember when you were in school, or

maybe you are in school, and if you're doing

math sometimes, you might be stuck on a problem.

You don't understand what to do next.

As you learn English, there may be

times where you're stuck on something.

You just don't understand how

to create a certain phrase.

So when you're stuck on something, it means you

don't know or understand what to do next.

So to review, when you're stuck in your ways, by

the way, usually older people are stuck in their ways.

I say that as if I'm not old. I'm not really old.

I'm middle aged.

But when you're stuck in your ways, you like doing something

a certain way and you don't want to change it.

And then when you're stuck on something, it

simply means that you don't understand it.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Ruslan.

Teacher Bob is really a jack of all trades.

He can teach, he can build, he knows

computers, and his most valuable skill is he

can do any sound effect in the world. And my response?

Well, mostly I'm just good at watching

YouTube videos to learn new things.

So thanks for the compliment

and the comment there, Ruslan.

I'm not, I don't know.

I wouldn't consider myself that

good at that many things.

But I think one of my best skills

is that I like to try new things.

I like to learn new things.

And YouTube is, like, the greatest

thing in the world for that.

So I would attribute a lot of the things I've

done to the fact that if I want to learn

how to do something, I just sit down at my

computer or pull out my phone, do a little search

on YouTube, and I find a whole bunch of videos.

And then usually I watch two or three to

get a sense of which person actually knows what

they're talking about and which person isn't.

So yes, even though I said I'm a little bit stuck

in my ways, I do like to learn new things.

And whenever I'm stuck, whenever I don't understand

something, I find a YouTube video to watch

and it explains it to me.

So, like laying those pavers by my house or even how

to properly prune a tree or any of those kinds of

things, I don't know what I would do anymore without YouTube.

It's just amazing.

So I know I'm a youtuber and there are probably,

there are probably other ways to learn new things.

When I was a kid, I did like books.

Books, I think were amazing as well.

But in this day and age, sometimes it's just

easier to watch a quick video than to go

to the library and try to find a book.

So anytime I do something new, like the

other day, I was using a chainsaw.

Oh, actually, I can show you.

The other day I was using a chainsaw.

And before I started using the chainsaw, I watched a little

video to refresh my memory on how to use it.

Yeah, I cut up this little tree here the other day.

It's kind of in the shade so it's hard to

see. But I know how to use a chainsaw.

But the particular model I was using

had a different mechanism for starting it.

So I watched a quick YouTube video

to learn how to start the chainsaw.

Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson.

I'll see you in a few days with another one.

Have a good weekend. Bye.