Despite our parents making most of our decisions for our better and brighter future when we’re very young, we start learning how to choose between the options placed strategically in front of us and make decisions.
The choices you make and the decisions you take have a long lasting impact on your life. They make us special, put a bar of distinction between us and everyone else. Our lives are a series of choices we’ve made so far. We live with those choices for the rest of our lives
So you wont get tricked into doing something like in movies
social, talkative, loud, outgoing
Any of these words would work as synonyms to gregarious. The antonym clues from the sentences are "quiet and shy". The sentences describe Mateo as gregarious AND the opposite of his brother. Since his brother is described as "quiet and shy", we know that Mateo is the opposite of quiet and shy. Loud and outgoing are the direct opposites of quiet and shy, but there are many other words that can mean the same thing.