How To Adapt
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A lot of us are looking around and realizing the plans we had aren’t necessarily a reality anymore. Which can be scary and hard, but it’s also a great opportunity to adapt.
Today, Greta checks in with her friend Shannon Downey. She’s a crafter with a big online community, but most of the work she does involves meeting people in real life, something that can’t happen right now. Hear what she decided to do, and the voices of Nerdette listeners from all over the place, about what they’re grateful for and how they’re adapting to new normals.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:14.6 | Is it just me or is today like extra weird? |
| 0:18.2 | From W be easy Chicago this is nerdad. I'm Greta Johnson. It is Thursday, March 19th, and I am still here, |
| 0:27.6 | come in uncha, from the floor of my bedroom closet. This is another edition of Nurdettz Introverts Guide to the Good Life. |
| 0:35.0 | This is the part of the script that my producer added in he says he wanted me to say |
| 0:42.0 | quick reminder before we get started be sure to pay attention to your |
| 0:46.0 | personal hygiene because you might not be interacting with many humans if any at all really |
| 0:52.0 | and I'm sure you're still washing your hands, |
| 0:54.4 | but like, be sure to wash your body and clothes and stuff. |
| 0:57.5 | This is the point where I'm like, you know, I mean, |
| 0:59.7 | do whatever you gotta do. |
| 1:00.8 | I have not washed my body today. I did take a bath yesterday morning that was pretty nice. |
| 1:12.0 | Okay so today is a really good day I think to talk about adaptation. We're not going to call it coping. We're not going to call it dealing with it. |
| 1:20.0 | But what we're talking about is what you do after that moment when you look around and you realize that things are not the way that you had planned. |
| 1:28.0 | Which, let's be honest, a lot of us are dealing with that in like a bunch of different ways right now. My friend |
| 1:35.0 | Shannon Downey had this experience pretty intensely last week so I thought I would |
| 1:39.7 | check in with Shannon on Skype and I talked to her earlier this morning. |
| 1:43.0 | Hello, Greta Johnson. |
| 1:44.0 | Shannon Downey, my dear friend. |
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