Relationships
not take yourself too seriously
stay relaxed about yourself
To remain relaxed and laugh at your own mistakes instead of trying to appear perfect.
Hear it in real life
Why do people like your colleague?
She does not take herself too seriously and is easy to talk to.
Good teachers do not take themselves too seriously when a lesson goes wrong.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She does not take too seriously herself.
Say: She does not take herself too seriously.
Put the reflexive pronoun after "take" and before "too seriously."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
do not take yourself too seriously; does not take himself too seriously
Your turn: say it out loud
Good teachers do not take themselves too seriously when a lesson goes wrong.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
not take yourself too seriously
stay relaxed about yourself
“Good teachers do not take themselves too seriously when a lesson goes wrong.”
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