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i’m like that. i REALLY don’t like watching videos unless i have to. For me it’s impatience. sometimes people speak too slowly or too quickly or i can’t hear them, or they’re full of too much dramatic hype… etc. Even in my classes; I have one professor that doesn’t provide transcripts for his videos. So through some trial and error I figured out how to get the closed caption file from the video frame source. (I search for the words “media_tracks” and it’s the 2nd one that’s a url and that’s the webvtt (captions). From there I put it into an AI and ask for an outline. THEN I’ll watch the video but at 2x because I know the ‘gist’ of what he’s gonna be talking about. I hate being led along, I think that’s what it is. Little bits and pieces on a video where I’m supposed to pay close attention to what they’re saying….

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Excellent summary of an excellent article! I’m someone with perfect pitch, or at least I did for a long time. For some reason, I was always able to identify what musical note was playing – even if it was a motor running or a car engine or a computer noise. Everything makes a musical note with overtones or some kind with varying amounts of noise. SOME things have so much noise that it’s difficult to pick out the notes/chords within. One shift over life – I’m 53 now – is now my pitch identification has shifted. It’s no longer perfect pitch. The calibration is “off” now. Like now: if I whistle a “Middle C”, it’s a B. Exactly a 1/2 note drop. But I also haven’t played the piano in about 8 years. [got busy – used play daily]. Maybe if I played it again for a bit or sang a little or whistled, it could knock that B back to a C where it belongs. I suspect the drift is natural; everything shifts through your life, and an ability to do “absolute” along with relative pitch identification would likely drift too. At least mine did. I’ll try to get it back one of these days but for now, it’s a tool I use to humble myself with sometimes. I’ll try to identify a note or sing it perfectly. Then I’ll get online and look up a video with the note I expected. It’s 1/2 a note higher than I expect every single time. So it keeps me humble.

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I love the video for Avoid, Deny, Defend. Everybody’s voices are soft-spoken, gentle, reassuring, all the while telling you about some of the most horrible situations you might encounter on campus. Oh, but the music! As a boy (I’m not young) I had biofeedback training to teach me self-control for anxiety at 11. Soothing voices on headphones with music in the background that was new age, corporate, “You can do this!” yet “soothing”, easing the messages given by the voices talking to enter the brain. In my case, it was how to control anxiety, notice feelings arising in the body and things I can do (tense/release muscles, breathing techniques, etc) – but here it’s instructions on calling on someone who may be about to take a severe mental-break or how to protect yourself and classmates. Sgt. Matthew Scott gave the perfect pathos. If you weren’t watching the images and listening to the words he was saying, you’d have no idea that it was so serious. Is it because they don’t WANT to give you this awful information but have to, like a tobacco company saying “(don’t) BUY CIGARETTES FOR MINORS!” on signs, where the message is intentionally mixed? Is it a form of pre-emptive de-escalation? Or a smart psychological way to have you be pliable to listen without you really being able to argue back? (the worst you can say about it is that it’s boring or corporate. A drama-filled fear-film, which is another technique for information people would be more likely to invite criticism) Kudos to the students who got to act in this video. Top notch stuff. I don’t _think_ the clock says 9:11… Ok, I’m procrastinating study…

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