Don’t Panic: Lessons from the Lost Ring | 5-Minute Videos
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Reason, logic, and thinking through problems can get you out of almost any sticky situation. @GadSaad, 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.
Script:
I want to tell you about my adventure with a ring and how it taught me some valuable lessons about life.
A few years ago, my wife and I spent a day visiting my wife’s brother and parents. Her brother lives by a beautiful deep-water lake and her parents, live by a river not far away. We had a great time. Hiking, swimming, and just relaxing.
On our way home, we stopped for coffee. As I walked into the coffee shop, my heart sank.
“I lost my wedding ring,” I told my wife. I held up my bare finger. Now she was as upset as I was. My wife and I love each other very much and our wedding bands—each with a personal inscription—symbolize our bond.
And now the chances of ever seeing my ring again, given how active we had been, looked exceedingly grim.
The easiest thing to do at this point would have been to give up and accept the reality that the ring was lost forever.
My wife and I decided otherwise.
First lesson: Never panic.
Stay calm and in that state of calm figure out a plan. There’s almost always a solution to your problem. And even if there’s not, just the process of putting together a plan will settle your nerves—while panic never works.
We began by combing through the photos and video clips we’d taken to see if we could narrow the timeline. The first piece of good news was that we found a photo taken after my lake swim, and my ring was still on my hand.
This was a gigantic statistical victory. At least we knew that the ring was not irretrievably lost in a deep-water lake.
We proceeded to look at the photos and videos taken at my in-laws’ chalet to hopefully rule out the possibility that it was lost in the river. The river’s current is so strong that it serves as a sort of swimming treadmill. If you swim against the current, you end up staying pretty much in one spot. This is precisely what I was doing in several video clips, one of which captured the exact crawl stroke at which I lost my ring!
But this was hardly a time to rejoice. The riverbed is littered with rocks and boulders, and the current, as noted, is strong. Finding the lost ring remained a nearly impossible task.
We resolved to return to the “scene of the crime.” Prior to doing so, I realized that we needed to answer a crucial hydraulic question: How would a ring of that weight and size behave in the current?
We tied a test ring to a piece of string and dropped it into the river. To our relief, the ring rapidly sank at the spot that it was released. It was now quite conceivable that my wedding ring was somewhere within a five-foot by five-foot square area.
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This is brilliant.
LEsson 6: Buy another marriage ring if you tryied everything possible to find it.
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This is such a funny/good video. I'm so glad PragerU made it.
11 Aug 2023.
7:52pm NZST
Go whitetrash Florida Nazis!!
Lol
Great story Gad! Thanks for sharing
57th, 8 August 2023
Love this. Engineer thinking
One day I was canoeing on a local river and I wear glasses but forgot my strap this one day. It was very hot so I pulled over to enjoy a nice cool swim but when I dove into the water my glasses went off and immediately got swept away by the current! So I let the current take me downstream about 100 yards and started my way back upstream looking for my glasses. Just when I had about given up I saw out of the corner of my eyes a shinny glint of gold and dove for it and came up with my glasses in my hand with one of the lenses popped out! I was very near sighted and would've had to drive back home about a hundred miles without my glasses if I hadn't found them! I never left my strap again!
I love PragerU for also producing 'random' videos like this. Also Gad is such an awesome person. A similar story that this video reminded me of: I recently lost one of my Bluetooth earbuds in a big city. I retraced my steps and to my surprise found that my phone was still connecting to the lost speaker at a certain spot. I searched and searched, however, I simply couldn't find it. I went back home and decided to do some research. I found out that the earbuds will not turn off on their own (only when put into their box or when the battery runs empty) which was good news. I then decided to go back to the spot later at night when everything was quiet and to play some sounds from my phone to help me locate it. This actually worked! I found the little speaker nearby under a car, where I couldn't possibly have dropped it. Probably somebody accidentally kicked it there. I have enough money to buy me new earbuds anytime I like but I was so happy to find the missing one that I now appreciate them even more than when they were new.
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You have an intriguing story to tell besides got ring back
Wonderful story. Thank you so much.
It's hilarious to know this BS videos are available in Florida Schools
One thing I admittedly envy, is that a man of his age can jump in the water, swim, and scan a river bottom for an object. His physical capabilities are impressive on their own.
Based on the title, I seriously this had to do with the Lord of the Rings 😂.
lesson one: as with all things, when it comes to marriage, seek first the kingdom of GOD.
the peace of Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD, be upon you.
Sources you shits.
This can't be real
I am so glad you found it. Staying calm is how things happen. Good Job.
I used reason and logic too. And I came to the conclusion that he never would have had this problem had he never gotten married in the first place.
I love a story with a happy ending and a lesson or two!
Great video. Thanks!
I enjoyed this one 👏
I'm glad he found the ring. But I have to laugh at the fact that my Dad has lost and broken multiple wedding rings over the years.
Never give up Hope ….. Unless your Country is being run by Criminals and the Corrupt Bureaucrats they have appointed to Key Positions , and their Political Opponents are being Persecuted and imprisoned ….. then your pretty much screwed ring or no ring .
The “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” has the words “don’t panic” on the back cover.
I made a cover for my Bible with the words “fear not” in both English and in Hebrew. How often in the Bible does it say fear not?
Loved this! Getting married was my best decision in life!
Scientific method is greek to a leftist
Simplified version:
If you're a vain bastard who has enough pictures and video taken of yourself you can pinpoint the moment you lose your ring and then retrieve it 😅