Crisis 

“Panicking won’t help solve anything” He says in a panicked tone

So, this is what Hank is like when he’s on a deadline.

“Done is better than perfect” - what I have to remind myself of every time

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" If you can't jog 5 miles a day, half a mile every few days is still better than not jogging at all.

"Find your shakey." Hank Green.

It sounds like Hank is going through a crisis a about how many crisis we have in the world

Paraphrased: "maybe the real solution was the shakey shakeys we had on the way"

"Just because we're not doing something perfect doesn't mean that we are not doing it " This is my motto from now

As Agents of Shields says "The steps you do don't have to be big, they just have to be in the right direction."

Thank you for being my Shaky Shaky, Nerdfighteria.

Hank: Crisis. Me, before even watching the video: Same.

THIS WHOLE VIDEO IS A MOOD.

Crisis burnout leads to apathy. There has to be an in between feeling. Maybe focus? Baby steps to the future will get us there but it’s hard to take them when you’ve burned out and don’t want to move. So many crises you feel that you have no power to do anything about. Focus on one and as the great Burl Ives sang, “put one foot in front of the other.”

I've missed Dancing Hank.

1:53, having experienced years of John's books bleeding into his videos, it's a LOT of fun seeing Hank's books bleed into his videos now >D.

"Four peanut M&Ms in your mouth at the same time is not better than having two"

So I just glanced at the title and thought it said “Crisps,” so I clicked on it thinking it was going to be about the difference between American and British chips, and now I kinda wanna see that video lol. This one was good too though.

I've dealt with this in life, and made a phrase, that I've been using for a few years now. "Freaking out only gets you freaked out."

"Existential Crisis?" "Always !" . . . Feel ya Hank :')

“Find your Shakey-Shakey” should be a motivational poster

My Shakey-Shakey is usually Vlogbrothers videos. This one kinda defeats the purpose though..

"How do you find the space between panic and complacency?" Aristotle: Ah, so you seek Virtue, Hank.

"We make the path by walking it." -Paul Gaffney I also struggle to find the place between panic and complacency. Especially with this huge problems I have no idea how we will solve. This video makes me feel seen and reminds me to just keep taking steps.

"We never know how to solve the problem. We just, thus far, just work a lot as individuals. As a collective. And then we get there. So far."

I find solace in watching YOU dance to shakey shakey.... That was great, more of that please Edit: THANK YOU for putting more of that at the end, that's exactly what I wanted hahaha

"(panic as an emotion) is not the most helpful one!!" -says Hank as he is violently shaking his beautiful brown hair

People dont usually panic forever... so if we could get everybody to panic just a tiny bit, we would probably start running in the right direction.

I very much appreciate Hank's calming assurance that over time we can find ways to solve the problems that seem impossible to solve. I get very overwhelmed by the enormity of the crises, so having a rational person say "Hold on, we can work towards fixing things" makes me take a breath and center myself. Thanks for that.

I think this is a good take and an important one. We've entered into this age where everybody feels an immense amount of personal responsibility for the future of the climate, which just can't be healthy on a global level. And humans have found ways to solve problems in the past and I feel confident that we will find a solution to this very real problem. That being said, I think a lot of the anxiety around the climate debate, at least for me, is not surrounding what the solutions will be. Because, quite frankly, the solutions are not that hard. The anxiety is that for humans to embrace those solutions, it will require many people to die or go through hardship first. We will only tackle climate unless a) we usher in a revolution in thought within the next few years. Possible, not probable. Or b) climate change eventually starts biting in to the bottom lines of corporations or threatening the lifestyle of the rich and elite. Once that happens, you'll see changes really start to happen. But that might not happen for another 20-40 years. And in the meantime, much more disadvantaged groups of people will be displaced, wars will be started over scarce resources, entire communities will be washed away by rising tides. That's the anxiety I have, as a middle-class white man living in America. Because I honestly don't know if climate change will really effect me personally, in ways that will force me to change my lifestyle. But I know that others will have to bear that burden, in part because of my current lifestyle. And that's an anxiety that is really hard to shake.

Meanwhile in Microcosmos: Hello, my beauitiful listeners, lets just calmly watch some single cell organisms gracefully moving in an enchanting dance. Ye~s...

Honoured that you titled the video after me, Hank!

It's so refreshing to get a video from you where you're a mess like this. I'm a mess all the time and it's isolating and makes you feel weird and defective when you have to look at people who are successfully putting forth a facade of being fine. Seeing you doing poorly makes me feel so much less alone. I'm sorry you've been having a rough time lately. I hope things get better for everyone. I hope I don't get left behind when it happens.

"Connect with yourself as a living sack of flesh." --Hank Green 2019 building sentences that the world has never seen before. And I am here for it! :)

"find your shaky shaky" - William Henry "Hank" Green, 2019 you don't really need to tell me though. I've got the avoidance part down to a tee.

" Here's my middle aged man take" - Hank Green, still somehow looking like he's in his 20s to me

YES THANKYOU!! I'll be the first to admit that we're not doing enough for the climate but I am soooooo tired of people saying were doing nothing, that could not be further from the truth.

Dancing Hank is both disturbing and amazing simultaneously

"A place between crisis and complacency." Wow. Also, where I can find graphs for American CO2 levels being below 1995 levels?? That's awesome!

I bet Hank felt some sort of psychological comfort after letting his thoughts out particularly in this video.

i've had such anxiety these past couple of years, and seriously the only relief or perspective change that has helped has come from you.. numerous times. please don't stop. for the first time in so long i feel like my kids have a chance. i've watched you guys from the start, i'm so happy you've never left us. i know the day will come, but i need you right now. but really i just want to say thank you.

2 old style Vlogbrothers Fridays in a row?! This fills me with such immeasurable joy

John’s “I believe hope is the answer, not despair,” matters so much to me and rings so true that I have it posted on the back of my dorm-room front door. Hope is the answer, not despair. I just know it’s true.

Hey Hank, I’m having a crisis about leaving for Uni today, thank you for always saying what I didn’t know I needed to hear. DFTBA

Holy crap man this resonates so much. I started a channel around helping people understand that "you don't need to be a hero to save the planet" and you just perfectly articulated a bunch of fears I feel around our environmental issues. Thanks, I'm off to a rally now.

Watching this during the middle of COVID like ". . . you're right hank, we weren't expecting this future. . . "

Oh dear, Hank. Wait to panic!

Four or five months after Hank makes a video about crisis, a new major crisis shows up

"Extenencial crisis? Always!!!" I can relate Hank. I can relate.

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! Well, yeah, actually, everyone does. It's probably not productive to worry about it most of the time. Let's try to save the climate.

“Just because we aren’t doing something perfect doesn’t mean we aren’t doing it.” Perfect sentence for our times.

Thank you for this video! It's so hard to find that middle between crisis and complacency.

"Just because we are not doing something perfect doesn't mean that we're not doing it." I needed this. Thanks Hank. 😊😊

"First find your shaky shaky" - *Hank Green* 2019

As someone who’s been sick 18 years, no cure available, explored all current treatment options, it’s good to keep this in mind. It’s really really hard for time to go by and to be stuck. But just because I have been doesn’t mean I will be always.

I am definitely panicking.....mostly about climate change

“We won’t know how to solve the problem until we’ve solved the problem.” 🤯 I deal with this a lot in my job. It helps to have skills - it helps to be able to say, “This is a solvable problem” and feel like the avenues you are exploring have the potential to yield fruit - but the point stands. I’ve also had problems I had no idea how to solve and couldn’t see a way through...but eventually I cane out the other side.

Goota be one of my favorites videos from them, sooooo needed it now

I used to watch the vlogbrothers back when they were still Brotherhood 2.0, and I was a kid who just found solace in nerds being nerds. I stopped watching for years, only checking in occasionally to feel nostalgic about that earlier period of my life. But recently, I've really come back to the channel. I'm in college now and surrounded by anxiety, stress, competition, CRISIS. It's hard to be so in love with the world, and also see everything that's going wrong with it. I felt like a mother with a delinquent child, unable to control them, but worried sick. Anyway, this is all just to say that I've come back to the channel again and am so grateful that you have both remained so genuine, and sincerely just want to help people. I also appreciate how John and Hank express love in both liberal arts and scientific perspectives. I think that the duality we ascribe to those interest sets breaks down when you see the poetry in the "Journey to the Microcosms" and then the logic of literature. It's comforting to hear that people are all dealing with the same things, all loving in the same way. Maybe its true that we can't change all of the things that we wish we could. But we don't have to. As my favorite poet Mary Oliver said, "You do not have to be good" "You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." Basically, thank you for loving what you love genuinely. Thank you for sharing that love with us. In a time rife with conflict, I think it's important to realize that all of that perceived conflict is really just stemming from the same fundamental love.

He sounds like a very confused psychotherapist. Or me when I'm trying to tell other people what psychotherapy sounds like

I’m not usually a hank video person but this PRECISELY what I needed and exactly what I’ve been feeling for the past months. THANK YOU.

The first seconds are me right now...

As someone who’s constantly panicking this is a good summation of my brain. Taking one step is always better than taking no steps. And that humanity has always been taking steps for better or for worse we’ve always survived.

Exactly the advice i needed. I need to find my shakey. Thanks Hank. * leaves on a quest to find her shakey *

I'm currently applying to med school and feeling every bit "in crisis" over my seemingly inadequate application and the steps I will need to take in the face of a dismal 3% acceptance rate in my province in Canada. This video is helping me get over that initial paralysis of the unknown and focus on one step at a time. Thank you, Hank. I'll remember your words.

RU-vid just reminded me of this today, 19 July 2021. And I have one thing to say. Haaaaaaaaaaah... CRISIS! Dear 2019 Hank: You should probably know that it won't get any better.

Thank you, Hank! You can't imagine how much better I felt by the end of this video, just from seeing a bit of optimism in connection to all those crises for once

Whenever there’s a crisis I take out Crisis on Infinite Earths and read it.

I didnt know I needed a dancing Hank until today, this is the highlight of my day.

I think Hank is having a crisis 😶😂

This highlighted one of my favorite words: “yet.” I use it all the time with my students, who say “I can’t do it.” My comeback? “You can’t do it...yet.” We’re all learning, and if we all added that “yet” in, maybe could be a little more kind and a little more understanding to ourselves and others!

"had too many VBs" Hank really has been learning about Australia.

This right here is the epitome of my near constant state of anxiety. It honks, and it honks a lot! 😖 But I am thankful for people like you, Hank, that remind me that I am most certainly not alone in this mess, and there are in fact people who think a lot like me and want to see their world(s) get better too. And just because something is getting attention, it's not always a bad thing; attention can be a great driving force for change! Thanks Hank.

Why was my first thought also banana

This "one step at a time" mentality is how I manage through a life of poverty with my family. We all tell each other that over and over, because that's what my (late) dad always used to say to us. Another thing I remember, in that one-step-forward mindset, is "the only way out is through."

I live in a constant state of crisis lately and it is just too much!

I recently subscribed to Vlogbrothers after watching other stuff from you guys for a while and tbh this is one of the best channels on RU-vid. I feel like I come away from each video with a new insight that makes my life better.

You have a good point. Dont panic if you don't have a solution immediately. But this does not apply to climate change. We have solutions. We're just not impementing them. That ist what the protests are about. Don't panic, do something about it.

Thank you Hank I needed this. On a very personal level it's a constant cycle of trying something, seeing how little difference it makes compared to something else that happened somewhere else, wondering what the point was in trying, then trying again because there is nothing else I can do but keep on trying.

“seventeen peanut m&m’s at a time is not fun!” me: are you sure

Your perspective about these crises has helped ground me when it is so easy to feel terrified and overwhelmed by all of the fear mongering and end-is-nigh messaging. Thank you.

Hank, thank you for inspiring us all to find our Shakey Shakey.

This is so comforting. Thank you. This week's level of surreal was hard to process.

This video hits different during the coronavirus crisis

Thank you so much for this Hank. I watched this while trying to come down from an anxiety attack, and it really REALLY helped.

I saw the title and thought it was something from within this year but no, these are just normal crisis, not a public health crisis. Oof. Incredibly relevant and uplifting tho

"TOO MANY VB'S, nah just didnt sleep enough" I dont even drink it, but holy shit Hank, thats a classic Australian Mood.

If we knew how to solve problems before they happened.. that'd be called prevention. And we can only prevent something when we've already gone through it and found a solution. That said, we could have prevented some stuff that are happening now because they had been predicted, but then again it's not super easy and some things can't be predicted or controlled. I think.

This video really helps me calm down while thinking about all the issues

He was a few months ahead of the rest of the world.

I have found that (with very few exceptions) the path that does the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people is usually the right one. It's a good mindset to have in this era of crisis after crisis. It's especially easy when what benefits you, also benefits everyone else around you.

I'm watching this video as I reflect on a movement lawyering course during the age of crisis...

Thanks. I needed this today.

At 2:44, Hank says that America has lower carbon levels than we did in 1995 surprised me! I can’t find anything that says this, can you clarify?

I'm crying, I'm laughing, Uncle Hank and John feels more and more appropriate a term because just when I'm feeling as though I don't know why I'm still here I see these two goofballs and I get life advice that really truly is helpful to me as someone as a young adult. Somehow you both dig into the pessimism that I hate to fall into and bring out something really special. Hopeful. I feel hopeful.

Muscle Hank’s having a muscle crisis

As always Hank, your words are inspiring and helpful. Thank you. Can we get a whole 4min of the dancing to this shakey shakey song, cause that will help every bad mood I'm ever in.

What if your crisis is that you live alone and don’t have a way to make friends? Asking for a friend...

Thank you 🙏 for bringing back the ‘Funny’. It makes your content more digestible.

I'd like a Crisis on Infinite Earths, please.

Beautiful video. It's been a struggle for me to find a balance between apathy and panic. To see it put into words as well as explaining problem solving in the past helps.