Hank asks John to share his ways across the sad gap in his Tuesday video (2022)
ask · status: reported back · last event: reminder (2022-05-17) · owner: John and Hank
In April 2022 Hank, after describing his own ways across the sad gap, asked John to share his in his next video. John answered four days later with the story of the community's work with Partners In Health.
About: sad gap
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-15 | asked | Hank asks John to tell him his ways across the sad gap in his video on Tuesday. | Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap 00:03:38 |
| 2022-04-19 | result reported | John answers Hank's question about how he crosses the sad gap with the story of the community's work with Partners In Health. → refers to Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap | How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:00:00 |
| 2022-05-17 | reminder | As they discussed recently, John says nobody can care about everything all the time: empathy has limits, and must; grieving every death like a loved one's would make functioning impossible. | Reasons Not to Care 00:01:27 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-04-15 · Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap — The description says some people treat the sad gap as the honorable place to be, as if leaving hopelessness and outrage were bad; Hank is over that and thinks it makes things much worse. — video description
- 2022-04-15 · Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap — Hank says all this leaves many people stuck in a place he names the sad gap. — 00:00:30
- 2022-04-15 · Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap — Hank says that learning about a problem first exposes you to its terrible consequences and to the people causing or blocking it, usually oversimplified so you engage: that puts you in the sad gap. — 00:00:59
- 2022-04-15 · Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap — Hank says it is too easy to get sad and angry and too hard to cross to being engaged and helpful; there are usually, not always, ways across, but no time in four minutes. — 00:03:38
- 2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — John: Answering Hank's question about how he overcomes despair and helplessness before big problems and comes to believe something can be done, John tells a story. — 00:00:00
- 2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — John: Without a first priority, John felt there were always new crises and the old ones never got better, which left him perpetually in the sad gap. — 00:01:27