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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged

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stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's inside your

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present moment of right now now. To get there requires practice.

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One sheet a day, ten minutes write about whatever is

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moving through your presence of right now, no judgment. Stream

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thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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June seventeenth, twenty twenty three. If we could collect our

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thoughts like baseball cards and old concert tickets, would our

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thoughts make it into a frame for public display? Personally,

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I didn't instantly become a daily writer. I had to

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force myself to the page for three years. It was

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usually during those dark times, and I learned to trust

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the writing to be my savior. I had somehow convinced

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my heart that all things piece filled would leap from

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the page. It was a personal challenge to write for

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one thousand days in a row, starting in August of

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nineteen ninety seven. It's turned into the way that I breathe.

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Is it worth the weight to live forever in a frame?

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Yet so much of it somehow makes it to a podcast.

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Oh it's not just me. All of us say the

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coolest things, but many of us elect not to share it.

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Your deepest emotions without judgment, those avenues of thought that

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seem a little crazy. But if you put a little

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bit of love with that craziness, all of a sudden,

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you've got something that people are talking about. One of

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the things that we've got to do as a growing generation,

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with so much content being shoved into our heart and soul,

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is to take a real good look at everything around

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us and say where do I fit in. I was

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just with a gentleman who put a new front door

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on my home. He said, you know what, when I

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broke free of the contract business and I started finding

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my niche in a place of just putting on front doors,

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I became very happy. My neighbor Pam, she's starting a

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brand new business where she's going to be the concierge

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for those that are above senior level, because there aren't

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too many people there that will travel from city to

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city to go to weddings, to family reunions. It's usually

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the older generation that's forced to stay home. The question

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is where do you fit in? Do you know where?

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That journey begins? Stream thinking allowing yourself to see for

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yourself what is moving constantly around you, and all of

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a sudden you've got an idea. And yes, you could

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really feel like a in the moment, because nobody likes

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to be judged. I have a new podcast called Forest Stories.

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It sounds like a really stupid idea, and yet when

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you listen to Forest Stories, it's documenting the behavior of

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this force that has been a part of my life

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for thirty two years. Once I'm gone, all that happened

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inside this forest will leave with me. And yet every

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book I've written, every podcast that I've posted, everything creative,

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and all the love of this particular forest in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina, has got a story that's got to be

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preserved in a way so other people and other generations

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can respect it. And that's how I feel about your

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personal life. You have poured so much of yourself into

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your moments of now, don't let it be forgotten. I

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challenge you to share it. I'm Errow, and that's stream thinking.