Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, 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.
Woo man. It's a life that feels like it's always
on the run. The new day arrives and it's already
been overtaken by other people's expectations. Of course, I had
to do some research on this, and research shows there
are multiple little things that we can all do to
create less in our day. And look what's at number
two on the list physically saying no. And I don't
know about you, but that kind of serves as a firestarter.
What do you mean no? Let me find a way.
I'm gonna say yes because I get off on saying yes.
Other little things that create space include avoiding drama. How
about this, ignoring distractions and think before you do. These
are all the little things that we can put into
forward motion to slow down life the expectation from other
people's business. Get control of your life. A golden rule
to live by is to begin a journey of settling
for excellence and not perfection. Can you delegate? Maybe you
should start doing that? What about admitting to yourself that
if you're a human, then act like a human and
live like a human. There's a quote in a movie
that's coming out, It's a DC movie, and in that
quote it says, stop living in your past and start
living life, not life on the run. Even the image
in the mirror seems to be crowding my path. Hey, Sarrow,
this is the daily Mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer. You take things
like this and you just kind of listen to it.
You slow things down by participating with well, why did
that thought even come to me? What am I going
to teach from this? How can we row beyond where
we were on that Google calendar? This is the daily Mess.
I remember sharing at a broadcasting lecture in twenty twelve
that our broadcast industry was quickly changing. People kind of
looked at me like I was weird, because I know
I am, and they know that I'm really, really weird.
But being an on air talent would not be enough
for the broadcast industry. This is what I was telling
them in twenty twelve. You're going to be expected to
host daily or weekly off the air shows called podcasts,
now I worked for the biggest company in America, and
they told me in meetings, they said, we don't understand
what you're doing or what you're talking about, but do
us a favor and don't stop trying to locate this
thing called podcasting. Well, last night, during a different lecture,
eleven years after talking about podcasting for the very first time,
I stood in front of those future broadcasters. They were
telling me about what they wanted to do in the
everyday world of broadcasting. They wanted to get in there,
and they wanted to be sports announcers, and they wanted
to be writers, and they wanted to be directors. And
my question, and I don't know why it hit me
in that moment. Maybe it's because I've been thinking a
lot about it, but I said, this group, you're the
first one that's going to hear this, and you need
to think about where you're growing the reporting, the baseball announcing,
the scores on the board, everything that you want to
get into. When it comes to being a communication specialist,
the AIS aren't coming, they're here, they're here. Will we
one day have that sports announcer that is an AI
that knows every single player's name, can spot their face
anywhere in the crowd. The AIS aren't coming, they're here.
So I stood in front of these future broadcasters last
night and I said, here's the situation. You need to
learn to work with the technology of AIS and try
to get yourself into that sports world because they're here already.
They're putting them to work. I talked with a fellow
broadcaster last night and he said, you got to stop, dude,
you got to stop, because these AIS are just a fad.
The government's going to come in. They're going to create
new rules and they're going to come in and change
everything that you're saying. They are not going to take
over baseball, announcing or any other sport. Dude, calm down.
I get it, we don't know what you're doing, but
don't stop. We're in that situation again. The AIS aren't coming,
they're here, and how are they going to affect your
life as a listener? Will you be able to tell
the difference. They're already making music with AIS. No musicians,
it's the AI. Prepare your world as we grow forward
to participate with the technology of what the AIS are doing,
or you'll be defeated and silenced by an AI. I'm Meril,
and that's the daily mess