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🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the endless stream of bad news on social media. But what happens when you stop scrolling and take action?
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0:00.0 | Some days when I get on the computer and I check my Facebook, it's really easy for me to feel overwhelmed. |
0:09.0 | Goodness gracious. |
0:11.0 | Three airport police officers dragging an unidentified 69 year old man from his seat and down the aisle. |
0:17.0 | San Bernardino is in mourning tonight after a deadly elementary school shooting. |
0:23.0 | Here is the very latest at 10 o'clock. |
0:25.0 | President Trump taking major steps to strip down Obama-era regulations to combat climate change. |
0:32.0 | I guess I'm one of those people who when I start to feel overwhelmed by the state of the world, |
0:37.0 | my instinct is to freeze up and to scroll right past all of these articles and posts. |
0:45.0 | But what would happen if I didn't scroll and I decided to do something? |
0:50.0 | You're listening to millennial, a podcast about coming of age. Today we're going to |
0:59.3 | to continue our discussion about what activism looks like in the small ways. |
1:04.0 | And we're going to explore this question. |
1:06.0 | How do you not get overwhelmed when the world's problems |
1:08.7 | feel so large? |
1:10.5 | How do you leverage your tiny resources and take action? |
1:16.0 | So I brought us some posted notes because what I'm thinking is I'll just have you kind of go through the series of events. |
1:22.0 | Yeah. January 28th. I'll just have you kind of go through the series of events. |
1:23.3 | Yeah. |
1:23.8 | January 28th. |
1:25.7 | What happened that day? |
1:27.3 | Is that the day the article came out? |
1:30.0 | Yeah. |
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