Several students who spoke in the recording said a talk by Dion Gordon gave them practical ways to handle negative thoughts and encouraged showing compassion to others.

Commenter 1 (student) said, "I really liked it. I really liked how he talked about, you know, just how to carry yourself. I thought that was the biggest thing that I kind of took away from it." Commenter 2 (student) said the talk moved beyond general encouragement: "At first, I thought it was just another speaker coming to talk to us about that he people are there for us... But then when he's actually started talking about the ways to strategize and get rid of those negative thoughts that are in people's heads, that really stuck out, especially the part of prayer. It's the change in how we think."

Both commenters described prayer as a central part of the message. Commenter 1 added that the speaker's emphasis on perspective helped after a setback: "Obviously, we lost the football game. We I I really wish we would have won. But just using kinda what he talked about tuning in, it just thinking down the road, thinking about the positives. I realized that there's gonna be more games." The same speaker said the talk reinforced longer-term goals: "I realized that my career is not over. I wanna try and be somebody that somebody people can talk to and they can rely on."

Commenter 2 urged that acting on the speaker's advice could change others' days: "If you experienced a bad day, the next day go out and show love to somebody who if you show love the next day, somebody that had the same day as you, they could change their day or just put a smile on somebody's face."

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