Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We need it from other people,
and we try to hoard it for ourselves. Oh come on, now,
let's be honest. How many times have you said, I'm
just not in the mood. I don't want to create.
I got it in me, but I don't know what
to do with it. I just don't want to be judged.
It's not yours, it really isn't. That's why you've got
to let it flow through you, unplugged, because we will
always say yes to creativity, totally uncut, because we all
make mistakes. So turn it into a tool. This is
Arrow unplugged. There you are. I've been waiting patiently for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
your name is on the list right here, right here.
Look look look right there. It says you were going
to be here today. Man, I'm so grateful, I really am.
I love it that we can get together and just
share a thought, just break open some conversation and grow
not necessarily like Yoda wise, but how about street wise
learning things about this everyday world and just sharing it.
That's what it's all about, just sharing it, no lecturing,
just sharing it. Hey, it's arrow, This is the choice.
This is what I was writing while the sun was
waking up a brilliant new day, and today we happen
to be reading from April sixth, twenty twenty three. I
do not believe that we are the lazy generation. Oh,
you've seen so much written about the millennials and Generation
Z and even my generation, we are the lazy generation.
I do not believe that is true. There's too much
good and too much bad going on. The feeling of
constantly being pushed is what's happening to these generations. The
changing of plans at the last minute, a swift turn
because of newer ideas. The same old thing isn't being
played out. Taking an extra fifteen minutes to sleep in
this morning doesn't define me as having lazy habits. Research
shows that living an unstructured life leads to burnout, not laziness.
Unstructured life is that where you are, you know you've
got to get stuff done. You know that this needs
to be finished by such and such time, But what's
it going to take for that to get accomplished. Procrastination,
they're saying, is actually great for us because it allows
us to rest, to plan things out. But it doesn't
say you're being lazy. To get a lot out of
the hole requires attention. Don't blame it on your career.
Tracking your stress level is an eye opener. Speak up,
get some exercise, and yes, even the professionals say, you know,
it's time to create a journal. Just what's it take
me to write in my journal? Maybe fifteen twenty minutes
a day, just to write three pages. It's something that
I picked up studying the artist way from Julia Cameron.
Fifteen minutes just to put some words onto a page,
to grow from, to learn from. You don't have to
go on there as a wise person. Just go on
there as you. Just release what's inside of you and
put it in print so that you can read it.
I mean that, whoa. There are times, there are times
when I'm writing late at night. What I'd put on
that page, I can't figure it out because it's chicken
scratch it was. It's moving so fast through me that
it's like ye and and well, I have to figure
it out. I've got to sit there and go, well,
I think this is what I was trying to say.
We're exhausted, we're burned out. When you wake up fifteen
minutes late because you gave yourself that extra fifteen minutes.
Do you really feel more energized or are you like me?
And you're even more tired, and you feel guilty about
it because you aren't getting that fifteen minutes back. Walking
away from burnout can burn you out. It's more work.
When you start taking note, you feel like you're being
the big judge here, even though all you want to
do is get some rest. We feel overworked, and we
also guilt trip and shame ourselves for that. Somebody gives
you an opportunity to make some money and you're gonna
change your plans. Somebody gives you the opportunity to go
do something fun, and what needed to get done is
still sitting there when you come back home and you go, well,
I'm meant to, I'm meant to. I'm just a lazy ass.
I guess I'm just a lazy ass. The light bulb
outside the house there, you know, the one that keeps
the backyard lit up so that burglars don't come in.
How long has that been dark? M hm? I do
it too. Look you should see my front yard. I'm
so into preserving my land to give it that forested feel,
because we have seventeen hundred trees here that it's kind
of invaded my front yard as well. And I don't
look like everybody else. You know what they're probably saying
about me, that lazy ass. What the hell's wrong with him?
He's always doing something that he shouldn't be doing. Therefore,
things that need to get done don't get done. My
dog Jazzy the Disaster Artist, if she didn't physically come
up to me and say let's go for a walk,
we wouldn't do it because there's always too much to do.
We're not the lazy generation. We're burned out. So let's
work on this. Let's work on figuring out how we
can get out of the burnout. Is it about eliminating
things in our lives? Is it about paying attention to
where you are in your life? My Google calendar is
so full. I have another junket coming up next week,
two days with these artists from this show. I have
a total of sixteen interviews. Yeah, yeah, How do you
think I feel after those interviews? First of all, I
have a great time. Don't get me wrong. I'm really
having a blast. I love doing this, been doing it
for a very long period of time. I'm very conditioned
for it. But after you've had sixteen interviews in a row,
how do you feel that light bulb in the backyard
is probably still going to be dark? Facing your burnout?
What is leading you there? How does it affect the
way that you speak? There are times that I'm on
the edge and the people that I think are close
to me, very very close to my heart, they don't
like it. They don't like seeing that guy and I go.
I thought we were friends. I thought I could be
me anytime I need to be me. No, no, no, no,
that is not true. So therefore, your burnout is affecting
other people who are also burned out, being aware, documenting it, exercising.
Jazzy and I we take a transition walk every single day.
A transition walk is listening to only the wind that's
flowing through your city, through your block, your neighborhood, becoming
one with yourself, release the burnout. I'm May and that's
what I was writing while the sun was waking up
on a brilliant new day.