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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We need it from other people,

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and we try to hoard it for ourselves. Oh come on, now,

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let's be honest. How many times have you said, I'm

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just not in the mood. I don't want to create.

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I got it in me, but I don't know what

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to do with it. I just don't want to be judged.

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It's not yours, it really isn't. That's why you've got

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to let it flow through you, unplugged, because we will

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always say yes to creativity, totally uncut, because we all

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make mistakes. So turn it into a tool. This is

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Arrow unplugged. There you are. I've been waiting patiently for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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your name is on the list right here, right here.

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Look look look right there. It says you were going

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to be here today. Man, I'm so grateful, I really am.

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I love it that we can get together and just

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share a thought, just break open some conversation and grow

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not necessarily like Yoda wise, but how about street wise

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learning things about this everyday world and just sharing it.

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That's what it's all about, just sharing it, no lecturing,

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just sharing it. Hey, it's arrow, This is the choice.

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This is what I was writing while the sun was

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waking up a brilliant new day, and today we happen

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to be reading from April sixth, twenty twenty three. I

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do not believe that we are the lazy generation. Oh,

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you've seen so much written about the millennials and Generation

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Z and even my generation, we are the lazy generation.

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I do not believe that is true. There's too much

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good and too much bad going on. The feeling of

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constantly being pushed is what's happening to these generations. The

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changing of plans at the last minute, a swift turn

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because of newer ideas. The same old thing isn't being

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played out. Taking an extra fifteen minutes to sleep in

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this morning doesn't define me as having lazy habits. Research

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shows that living an unstructured life leads to burnout, not laziness.

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Unstructured life is that where you are, you know you've

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got to get stuff done. You know that this needs

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to be finished by such and such time, But what's

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it going to take for that to get accomplished. Procrastination,

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they're saying, is actually great for us because it allows

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us to rest, to plan things out. But it doesn't

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say you're being lazy. To get a lot out of

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the hole requires attention. Don't blame it on your career.

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Tracking your stress level is an eye opener. Speak up,

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get some exercise, and yes, even the professionals say, you know,

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it's time to create a journal. Just what's it take

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me to write in my journal? Maybe fifteen twenty minutes

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a day, just to write three pages. It's something that

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I picked up studying the artist way from Julia Cameron.

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Fifteen minutes just to put some words onto a page,

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to grow from, to learn from. You don't have to

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go on there as a wise person. Just go on

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there as you. Just release what's inside of you and

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put it in print so that you can read it.

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I mean that, whoa. There are times, there are times

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when I'm writing late at night. What I'd put on

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that page, I can't figure it out because it's chicken

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scratch it was. It's moving so fast through me that

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it's like ye and and well, I have to figure

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it out. I've got to sit there and go, well,

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I think this is what I was trying to say.

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We're exhausted, we're burned out. When you wake up fifteen

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minutes late because you gave yourself that extra fifteen minutes.

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Do you really feel more energized or are you like me?

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And you're even more tired, and you feel guilty about

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it because you aren't getting that fifteen minutes back. Walking

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away from burnout can burn you out. It's more work.

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When you start taking note, you feel like you're being

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the big judge here, even though all you want to

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do is get some rest. We feel overworked, and we

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also guilt trip and shame ourselves for that. Somebody gives

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you an opportunity to make some money and you're gonna

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change your plans. Somebody gives you the opportunity to go

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do something fun, and what needed to get done is

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still sitting there when you come back home and you go, well,

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I'm meant to, I'm meant to. I'm just a lazy ass.

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I guess I'm just a lazy ass. The light bulb

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outside the house there, you know, the one that keeps

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the backyard lit up so that burglars don't come in.

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How long has that been dark? M hm? I do

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it too. Look you should see my front yard. I'm

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so into preserving my land to give it that forested feel,

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because we have seventeen hundred trees here that it's kind

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of invaded my front yard as well. And I don't

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look like everybody else. You know what they're probably saying

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about me, that lazy ass. What the hell's wrong with him?

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He's always doing something that he shouldn't be doing. Therefore,

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things that need to get done don't get done. My

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dog Jazzy the Disaster Artist, if she didn't physically come

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up to me and say let's go for a walk,

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we wouldn't do it because there's always too much to do.

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We're not the lazy generation. We're burned out. So let's

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work on this. Let's work on figuring out how we

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can get out of the burnout. Is it about eliminating

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things in our lives? Is it about paying attention to

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where you are in your life? My Google calendar is

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so full. I have another junket coming up next week,

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two days with these artists from this show. I have

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a total of sixteen interviews. Yeah, yeah, How do you

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think I feel after those interviews? First of all, I

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have a great time. Don't get me wrong. I'm really

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having a blast. I love doing this, been doing it

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for a very long period of time. I'm very conditioned

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for it. But after you've had sixteen interviews in a row,

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how do you feel that light bulb in the backyard

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is probably still going to be dark? Facing your burnout?

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What is leading you there? How does it affect the

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way that you speak? There are times that I'm on

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the edge and the people that I think are close

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to me, very very close to my heart, they don't

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like it. They don't like seeing that guy and I go.

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I thought we were friends. I thought I could be

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me anytime I need to be me. No, no, no, no,

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that is not true. So therefore, your burnout is affecting

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other people who are also burned out, being aware, documenting it, exercising.

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Jazzy and I we take a transition walk every single day.

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A transition walk is listening to only the wind that's

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flowing through your city, through your block, your neighborhood, becoming

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one with yourself, release the burnout. I'm May and that's

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what I was writing while the sun was waking up

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on a brilliant new day.