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Having Courage to Not Play the Victim with Gerald Packineau

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Interview · North Dakota · Gerald Packineau · NDNAEU 5 · NDNAEU 6

Themes: Education & learning, Healing & resilience, Humor & play

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Learn About questions

What does it mean to play the role of victim? How is education important to moving out of victimhood? How can confidence and courage help to move us toward success?

Learn From questions

Have I ever felt victimized in my life?  What caused it and how do I feel about it now? How does feeling like a victim affect my confidence? Have I ever moved from victimhood to success?  How did it happen?

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NDNAEU 5 & 6 "Having Courage to Not Play the Victim" with Gerald Packineau

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When we come to understand and then he said well we’re traumatized where we’re victims we can’t play the victim no more some part in our life we have to say you know what I’m not that victim Romer I survived that but I’m not a victim no more I’m a survivor resilience and if we not educate ourselves and we kind of fall short and sometimes we run into a roadblock because when I see and I’ve understood that their tennis in sense hold you back a little bit and I’ve been held back so I understand it I remember one time I was in Idaho 12th grade they did this big Ohio test math test and all these all the math students got to go and I don’t know why they chose me it was part of the math class so he said you go to so I went I didn’t think much of it but I looked at these problems and I was kind of okay I do the part of reasoning I don’t know if that’s my spirit or whatever reasoning now look this answer looks like he’ll be connect to that and all those tests here I was one of the top students at a high math test and my instructor or the math teacher at the time in algebra said mr.Packet on what you do spend a pencil and get the right answer and I said no I said I just the process of reasoning and looking at a problem solving that way but he was this dumbfounded because all his math students couldn’t we solve those problems and they didn’t have that score I still thought what the heck I don’t know and I didn’t think much of it and when I did homework died I did it but on hands you know when they had us do something I mean I like numbers I like figures but when they had to take a compass and start drawing and I’m a procrastinator I did it by hand when one day I drew all the color did looked at it said I didn’t need a compass but he was trying to teach us but me I just gone and put it in this and you know I got a good grade but again you know it was that that spirit that I had carry with me it was an intellectual it was the same I can do that I have that confidence I have the courage you say okay I really don’t know how but I know I can do that’s courage

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