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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,

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hey Zaro, And this is vocal dfrag Dfragging is something

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that came to me in November of twenty seventeen. That's

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when I took my journal writing to a different level.

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I went face to face with the one that was

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in question, but I wasn't going to settle for the answers.

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I was going to question the answers that the inner

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core was going to put on paper. I've been a

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daily writer since July of nineteen ninety four, and throughout

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those years, I did ask myself questions, but I didn't

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put a lot of focus in on it. It was

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usually drawing the pretty pictures, you know, the ones where

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you feel good. You want to document it, you want

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to make it look like it's a mile marker. But

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that's not the way we feel. That's not the way

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that we journey through life. We all have those spots

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in our life where it's darker. We feel guilt, we

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feel shame, we feel doubt. We find a victory, but

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then we start doubting again, because on the opposite side

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of a victory is usually some downpours right, and then

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we live more with them than we do those moments

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where we felt pretty good. Vocal defragging is only half

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of what I do when I say a dfrag. I

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keep a written journal, which I started in November of

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twenty seventeen, and I do the vocal defragging because I'm

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blessed with the opportunity to talk with a lot of

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creative people around the world, and when we talk about defragging,

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they're going I had no clue that this even existed,

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so it was like, how do I get the word

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out about how people should learn how to defrag? I

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can't send you my journals, so it was like, Okay,

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you got to create a podcast then, dude, and you're

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going to have to be just as open on the podcast.

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And here's the thing about about vocal defragging versus handwritten defragging.

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What I wrote about today before jumping inside the car

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is not going to be what we're talking about today.

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And the only reason why I'm in the car because

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I should be out on that transition walk. We took

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it all right, Oh, we took it. It was it

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was fun. It was a beautiful day until the rains came.

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But something happened on this transition walk today that really

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opened up my eyes, and I thought, if you let

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this go, you're gonna be missing out on a valuable message.

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Do not let this dfrag moment go. And I realized

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that on Saturday, I've got a movie premiere and I've

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gone an essential job to go to. When am I

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going to vocal dfrag? So I thought, I'm gonna do

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it now. I've got to do it now, and it's

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not gonna be out on the trail, but we've got

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to vocal dfrag. The subject at hand on vocal d

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frag is one man's trash is another man's treasure. Here's

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the reason why it even came to me. I was

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out in the forest with my dog, but I forgot

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something at home. The poop bag. Oh yeah, the plastic

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bag that picks up the poop. I didn't realize that

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I forgot it until I saw a McDonald's bag on

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the ground. I was mad. I was really mad at

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somebody littering my neighborhood, my forest. Why would you drop

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a bag from McDonald's on this path in the forest.

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That's when I realized, hey, you forgot your plastic bag,

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and right now your dog is taking a dump. Suddenly,

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one man's trash became my treasure. I wasn't going to

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leave the dog dumpings there. I had to pick it up,

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because that's the kind of human I am. But all

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of a sudden, my mind goes, wait, there's something here.

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What are the things that other people are throwing away

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that have become treasures in your life. We go to

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these flea markets, we go to these junk stores, these

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antique shops, and we buy other people's junk and we

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try to add it to our lives. I think one

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of the greatest pieces of treasure that I have in

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my life is that I have a laptop writing desk

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that came from the nineteen thirties. It was actually on

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a US warship. A captain actually had that, and I've

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got a letter from the captain that was left inside

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the desk. It's a beautiful piece, but I'm so afraid

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of touching it because it is so old. And as

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a daily writer, somebody who's constantly putting that book and

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pin up there you can rip that thing apart in

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no time, and all of a sudden it's going to

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become a part of history rather than a part of

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the future. But one man's trash is another man's treasure.

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What have you gone through in your life? What have

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you thrown away that has helped somebody else? Let's turn

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it around. What things have you dropped along the way

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that has become someone's treasure? Are we supposed to know

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something like that? Are we supposed to grow with such

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an idea? So often we all want new and improved.

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We don't want to deal with the old stuff. We

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do that with computers, we do that with smartphones, refrigerators,

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sofas in our house. We do it with a huge,

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huge barbecuers. We want the best. We go through home depot,

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we go through a mall, we go to Amazon. We

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want the best. But when you throw it away, your trash,

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whose treasure doesn't become Now I'm not a hoarder, but

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I am learning though that through doing this Swedish death cleaning,

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that I am keeping way too much. I sit there

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and I try to determine I can't let this go

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to the city dump. I need it to go to

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somebody who needs what it is that we're sharing. For instance,

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like we're replacing all of the ceiling fans in the

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house with LED lighting to help conserve energy, because that's

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the way life is. We're supposed to be helping to

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save energy. But I didn't want to throw the fans

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away because there's nothing wrong with them. So we set

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them outside boom. Somebody instantly picked them up. Whether they're

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going to sell them, it doesn't matter. We relinquished it.

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So let me turn that into a question. If you

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were to relinquish something in your house, in your heart,

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relinquish meaning in other words, yes it once belonged to you,

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but you relinquished it. That means you have no feelings

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for it anymore. It's going to somebody brand new. What

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you relinquish, what is it going to be in someone

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else's life. That's where you ask the questions and you

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begin questioning the answers. The words that you share. You're

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letting those words out when you're having a bad day

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at work. Ooh, that's trash man. We like to trash

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talk the boss all the time. But is it someone

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else's treasure? Yesterday at the essential job, the people in

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my department were all bashing our managers, and when I

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got there, I felt that energy immediately. It took me

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about three and a half hours to level up, to

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get to a place of thought where I wasn't thinking

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about how evil these managers are because I was believing

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everything that they were throwing out. I was taking their

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trash and turning it into my treasure, which was not

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a good place. So the words that you share, the

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posts that you make on social media, the trash that

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you have in your house, the trash that you have

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in your car, is it somebody else's treasure? I'm eron

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and that's vocal. D Frank