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Interesting

Thank you for your help, Diana!

Thank you! 🥰🥰 As a purposeless person looking for a purpose, this is really helpful. I need to think now of a goal that matches my values. Happy holidays and blessings to you and your loved ones!

So, especially since this video is coming out the day after Thanksgiving, it is a perfect time to ask, what is something you are grateful for? I'm grateful for you, reading this, and supporting my channel. I seriously can't do this without people like you. ❤

So which of these 6 things resonates most with you? Which are you best at, or which do you struggle with most?

Excellent synopsis. I look forward to seeing more of your interpretations.

I'm interested in hearing more.

I seem to practice resilience by saying "Fuck it!" and careening wildly through life, with no goals or direction but inertia. It will be interesting and valuable to see how the advice presented herein evolves

I love thiiiisss!! 👏👏👏 I'm excited to see what all you put out and the perspectives you share! 🫶

This was great and I might have to bring it to my next unit! It would be a great video to show during MRT to give a different perspective on how to view resiliency.

Just leaving a comment Sergeant, nothing to see here lol

Are u gonna publish more videos?:) Watch the one one genocide which was great and really informative

Virtue? Virtue, where are you?

To use the Nazi Party as a comparison, a lot of children grew up with propaganda to the point that was all that they knew. Once the constituents were led to believe that the Jewish members of their community were truly intact “Evil”, despite us knowing otherwise, all it took was Hitler saying that (paraphrased) “enough is enough, let’s kill them.” And with that speech, his entire nation was with him. Obviously that’s a gross oversimplification that doesn’t get into the specifics on regions being more Jewish than others. The point is that later on in life, Nazi soldiers who were following orders were doing so under a belief that they were instilled from birth. Years later, even as recent as a few weeks ago, they were convicted for their crimes. During the most recent testimony from a Nazi Soldier who was convicted, he expressed that as time grew, he felt deep remorse for the actions that he committed, and learned how truly wrong he was both in his mentality and his actions. I think this episode is a master class in breaking down the steps for a civil war from Walter’s “How Civil Wars Start”. A wonderful job in explaining the topics as they are presented and staying true to the content. It’s nice to receive personality in a video without the personality and opinion becoming the focal point of the content. Fantastic Work!

Good point about not “over-deploying” a pejorative. In the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign policy, the Jewish author preempts those who would hurl the pejorative term “anti-Semitic” at him. All over-deploying that attack phrase will do is weaken its effect when actual anti-Semitism occurs.

Frankly, I wish more people had the courage to discuss uncomfortable topics like this! Excellent work!

Making dark and serious thoughtful and adding humor....nice. some of us process slower than you talk, but I love this so much, I just watch twice!!

In a longer version of this video description, I included more information about my favorite news sources and discussion for each of my 48 sources, describing what I took from it and addressing media bias, if necessary. However, I then learned that TH-cam video descriptions are restricted to 5000 characters, and I was barely able to squeeze in all the links! So, here are just a few things I wanted to address. For many of the references, I will let you infer what I might have discussed about each, but if you want to discuss or take issue with any of them, please post a comment and I will be happy to provide what I initially wrote and/or discuss it with you. At the bottom are the blurbs for my current favorite news sources. First, I need to address that I used this version of the 10 Stages paper by George Stanton when I wrote my script, and later realized the wording has been updated on the Genocide Watch website. So, I'm not making things up, here is the PDF: www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1482/TenStages.pdf The link in the video to the United Nations report on civilian casualties in Ukraine goes to a specific version of that report, currently the latest, but as newer versions come out, I may need to update that link. Please write a comment or shoot me a message if the link becomes broken or outdated. Regarding media bias: I tried to find a scholarly or neutral version of stories from which I was only pulling facts, and to get both left and right versions of stories that were more emotional. I did find that the left-leaning publications were more inclined to write the bleeding-heart narratives that were useful in some cases to paint a clear picture, and I tried not to generalize from the reported anecdotal information. In some cases, though, a few anecdotes are very helpful, even if you don't suppose that their experience is everyone's. Please let me know in the comments if you disagree with my use of any reference. On some of the more controversial references: I feel I was a bit heavy-handed with the one New Yorker article, Reference #9, and I wanted to rephrase part of the video, but re-recording is incredibly time-consuming and this video is already 2.5 months in the making. I think the points I drew from it are still valuable, I would have just preferred my own video have a more neutral tone when referencing it. I wrote a lot more about what I took from this piece and why, so leave me a comment if you want to talk about it more. Additionally, I want to address References #1 and #32. I have seen articles from Russian war crime doubters redirecting the conversation to Ukrainian Soldiers who have committed their own war crimes, killing Russian prisoners of war. Of course it isn’t any more OK for Ukrainians to break the rules of war than it is for the Russians to, but they are different conversations, and I’ll add that the scales are vastly different. Ukrainians have killed Russian POWs, but Russians are responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ukrainian unarmed civilians, and in any case, the guilt of one does not wash away the guilt of the other. Not all Russian Soldiers are guilty and certainly some Ukrainian Soldiers are, but these debunked conspiracy theories are still unhelpful. They redirect an important conversation to hold Russian Soldiers and the Russian state more broadly accountable for the deaths of innocents. For Reference #32, The Epoch Times is obviously a right-leaning publication, but this interview appears to be both credible and compelling. While I will not jump to the conclusion that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is US President Biden’s _fault_ (Russia and each of its actors are still responsible for their own actions), nor do I think this article undermines the point that Biden calling out Russia’s false flag rhetoric prevented the situation from being any worse (at least most of us are clear-eyed about what is happening, not lost in the misinformation of Russian propaganda), I think Americans who want Biden to “keep us out of conflict” need to read this perspective. Reference #22 was also compelling, and probably controversial. This article’s subtitle states, “The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend,” and I really like that this author is not afraid to declare both of the “black and white” narratives incomplete (making this issue a “gray” one by my channel’s metrics) and address some facts that make the truth messy-for example, there really is a group of individuals in the Ukrainian National Guard who openly display sentiments and goals that sound very much like those of Hitler. That said, claims like those stated in Reference #14 that “the majority of the Ukrainian population” are Nazis are still wholly false, and it still seems evident, based on other articles like References #7-8, that the neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine are a distraction and a convenient justification for what Putin would have found a way to do anyway. Also, while most of my references are news articles, a few are more detailed reports gave me a lot of perspective. I highly recommend Reference #8 for a better understanding of why Russia is the way it is. -------- My Current Favorite News Sources: The New Paper. thenewpaper.co/. This news comes as a daily text message (or email), excluding weekends. Each text contains 6-8 headlines and links to an article, usually from the Associated Press, with more information. Story choice is based on the international consensus on “big news,” which may lean slightly left today. Still, there is great coverage of both domestic and international headlines in politics, religion, finance, sports, entertainment, and science. The Flip Side. www.theflipside.io/. This news comes as a daily email, excluding weekends. Each email focuses on one trending hot topic and, without providing its own opinion, gives you what both the left and right are saying about the issue, taking quotes directly from left- and right-leaning media sources. I like that I get to make sure I understand what both sides of the argument even are before deciding which side I agree with, because you know neither Fox News nor Vox is providing the other’s arguments. The Associated Press. apnews.com/. Whenever I hear or read a story that I want to share with someone else, I first try to find the AP version of the story. I’m not perfect! I read or listen to biased media, too, sometimes because only one side finds some point important-but before I talk about it with someone else, I now try to find the AP’s version to present the facts of the issue in as neutral a tone as possible. This prevents discussion with others from getting either heated or biased before the conversation has even begun. AllSides. www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news. When I do listen to or read other sources of news, I also run those sources by the AllSides Media Bias ratings, which can help me understand how much salt to take with it and decide if I need to seek another perspective. Like The Flip Side, they also offer in one place multiple versions of top stories from the Left, Right, and Center, as well as the list of top headlines from all sides. This helps to combat both story choice and slant biases. I can talk about all of this for a long time, but this comment section is meant to be where you talk and I listen, so please drop me a line and maybe find someone else to respond to and let's start a conversation!

Guy from Burger King here, very interesting channel!

“Paradox of Choice”. Ugh. Yup. Been there!

Keep developing your channel. Your delivery is outstanding.

I was told in college that the average college student changes majors at least twice - it was such a relief to hear that no one else knew exactly what they were doing yet either!

I love the maze analogy - just like you said, I never thought about that in terms of conversations or problem solving! I also never had any real strategy in corn mazes so...

As someone who is currently in this predicament I love this!

This is super interesting. I always prefer complexity over simplicity. Simplicity often pairs well with extremism which makes sense (black and white with no grey or yellow). In reality most things are complicated and nuanced.

Superb! What a great analogy! Yes, I'm a social worker--turned lawyer--yoga teacher, etc. LOVE possibilities!

You are very good at this. I liked the yellow flower too

Sound is fine on my phone, like the analogy. Slow down a bit. Need slight pause BTW concepts to process.

Miss you at HHC! - SPC Smith

That was really very well explained. And easy enough to actually use! Nicely done! #bwgy

All parties of Government needs to see this video

I like the concept. It's hard to discuss volatile topics without emotional responses. From my education in management communications, I know a simple slip is all it takes to eliminate any hope of a productive result. Just saying "you" will put the person in a defensive posture, thus eliminating any hope of a cooperative outcome. It's a shame that we need to be so careful, but in these trying times it's more important than ever. This sounds interesting, I hope it can help.

Yea!! A youtube channel on communication. I will be honest that I don't expect to use any tips and tricks I learn here on politics/religion/etc because I normally don't get into those conversations. However, I do work as a Project Manager in my day job and I have no doubt that any skills learned here could be leveraged there. Looking forward to more!

Hi Dianna! What a Great Intro video! I look forward to Future Content!

good video