Meaning of HEAD IN THE CLOUDS and SCATTERBRAIN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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I think we all know someone who has their head in the clouds.
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In English when we say someone has their head in the clouds it means that they are not a
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super practical person.
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They have trouble being on time.
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They have trouble being organized.
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They have trouble getting things done because they're always thinking about other things
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instead of the thing that they should be thinking about.
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So a good example would be someone who goes to the grocery store and wanders around and
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doesn't buy any of the things that they actually went to buy because they're distracted by
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all of the things they see.
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We also sometimes refer to this type of person as a scatterbrain.
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So again, your brain is what you use to think, and if you are a scatterbrain it kind of means
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that your thoughts are scattered, that your thoughts are disorganized and you have trouble
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focusing on what you need to be doing.
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