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Hi it's Emily from—

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...that's an unfortunate screenshot.

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[cringing]: oh..

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no...

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hmmmm....

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....eh, good 'nuff.

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... from Bite Size Vegan and[br]welcome to another vegan nugget.

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Today I thought I would take you[br]somewhere potentially disturbing:

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Inside my vegan nerd brain.

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Let's get started.

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::pop::

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If you've watched my videos for a while, you've probably heard me say several times how a topic got

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far more complex than I expected it to be.

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But I thought, instead of having to take my[br]boring bland non-entertaining word for it,

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I would take you behind-the-scenes and show you a little bit of my process

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and what I'm talking about when I say this.

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So I've been working on a topic[br]I've had requested so many times:

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Is art vegan?

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During my research for this video I've been experimenting with something called "mind mapping"

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to see if it could help with visualizing my research,

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and I thought that this would be[br]something fun to share with you guys.

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So when you first look at this, I thought "okay, it's going to be pretty simple!" I'm going to cover just some basics

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go into history, of course, talk about non-vegan materials and tools, offer some alternatives.

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probably wrap it up relatively quickly.

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But, as always happens whenever I'm researching a topic, things start to get more and more complex ,

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an increasing web of connections. And suddenly this topic that I thought was going to be super simple

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expands beyond anything I had expected.

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And then comes even more complex task of stepping back and trying to take all of this information

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as a whole and condense it down[br]into a simple, relatively brief video.

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If I made one of these maps for say my Ireland talk or even one of my more complex videos,

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it would probably be about twenty times the size of this thing

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The more I have done these videos the more in depth my

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research process has become, and rather than throw out a rushed video on this topic

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that I know so many of you have been waiting for

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I thought it would be kind of nice to show you a little bit of how I work and how I research and how even the most

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ridiculously simple appearing topics can blow up exponentially because I know from the outside

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it looks like nothing is happening on the channel or on social media and that's because I am up in this stuff.

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I'd love to hear if any of you guys use mind mapping.

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I really enjoy it and I think it is something I wanna definitely continue to do.

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I am hoping I can find a way to integrate the citation manager that I use.

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So I hope you enjoyed this little peak inside my vegan nerd brain.

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Let me know what you think about the mind mapping and if it is something that you do as well.

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I would love to hear your experience if you have any programs that you really like.

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In the meantime I have linked here and below my "Is Blank Vegan?" series.

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I've covered quite a bit of topics at this point so be sure to check it out and to not miss the launch of "Is Art

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Vegan?" next week be sure to subscribe to the channel and of course click the bell and enable notifications.

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[Start of sigh] Because... YouTube... [End of sigh]

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Go live vegan... And I'll see you soon.