Don't Panic: Lessons from the Lost Ring

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Reason, logic, and thinking through problems can get you out of almost any sticky situation. Gad Saad, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, popular podcaster, and author of The Saad Truth About Happiness, demonstrates how to hold on to hope and never give up, even when things look bleak.

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0:00.0	I want to tell you about my adventure with a ring and how it taught me some valuable
0:06.6	lessons about life.
0:08.2	A few years ago, my wife and I spent a day visiting my wife's brother and parents.
0:13.8	Her brother lives by a beautiful deep water lake and her parents live by a river not far
0:19.1	away.
0:20.1	We had a great time hiking, swimming and just relaxing.
0:24.0	On our way home, we stopped for coffee.
0:26.6	As I walked into the coffee shop, my heart sank.
0:30.1	I lost my wedding ring.
0:31.8	I told my wife.
0:33.0	I held up my bare finger.
0:35.2	Now she was as upset as I was.
0:37.6	My wife and I love each other very much and our wedding bands, each with a personal inscription,
0:43.7	symbolize our bond.
0:45.8	And now the chances of ever seeing my ring again given how active we had been looked exceedingly
0:51.9	grim.
0:52.9	The easiest thing to do at this point would have been to give up and accept the reality
0:57.9	that the ring was lost forever.
1:00.4	My wife and I decided otherwise.
1:03.4	First lesson, never panic.
1:06.2	Stay calm and in that state of calm, figure out a plan.
1:11.0	There's almost always a solution to your problem.
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