Main concepts covered in this episode:

• What is Judgment? 
• Contributing Factors
• Staying In The Solution

Resources discussed in this episode:

• TED Talk: Could Heavy Metal Music Help Maintain Your Mental Health? Mark Deeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDL3rnGgi8s 
• Bonus additional resource – Beth Roars did a video called Metal Music Makes You Calmer? Your Brain on Metal: https://youtu.be/fPL6SxdgYEs?si=BakQ67wZQ8sVgpXB 
• The Man In The Arena: https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Documents/maninarena.htm
• Our Flag Means Death – I was not able to find the scene referenced in this episode on YouTube, but it’s from Season 1, Episode 5: “The Best Revenge Is Dressing Well” - in brief, Stede and Ed are in a room full of aristocrats and Stede tells Ed that this is a fickle crowd.
• Juicy by Biggie music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw
  • Correction 12:53 from “some days” to birthdays. The full lyric is:
    Birthdays was the worst days
    Now we sip Champagne when we thirsty
• Joshua Bell experiment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-before-breakfast-can-one-of-the-nations-great-musicians-cut-through-the-fog-of-a-dc-rush-hour-lets-find-out/2014/09/23/8a6d46da-4331-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?utm_term=.751bc9d3d16f 
• Eartha Kitt interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlUjHu3H_L4 
• Tracee Ellis Ross:
  • https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/tracee-ellis-ross-gets-candid-about-dating/ 
  • Interview with Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMCUv2DihY 
• Stanzi’s video The Trial of Chappell Roan: https://youtu.be/QpteSrUNjpo?si=IyEVd1wXt0_uWwIv 
• Think and Grow Rich – borrow from a library/Libby, or buy from Bookshop.org, who funnels sales to independent bookstores: https://bookshop.org/p/books/think-and-grow-rich-napoleon-hill/d6ed9b9530e2600b?ean=9781585424337&next=t 
• Skin horse quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/304174-the-skin-horse-had-lived-longer-in-the-nursery-than 
• The Power of Vulnerability TED Talk by Brené Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o 
• Hayao Miyazaki’s founder of Studio Ghibli thoughts on artificial intelligence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc 

PERSONAL INVENTORY GUIDE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AZlSNEBwXiNvQx8TogT4ljFyGkA5eGP4vLF3H59yr4/edit?usp=sharing

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