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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 is in

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your present. To get there require some practice. Just one

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sheet of paper a day, ten minutes write about whatever

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is moving through your presence of what is right now,

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without any judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener,

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as a communicator, and as an activator. Learning how to

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trust what is right now. This is stream thinking today.

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We're reading from August twenty six, twenty twenty three. I

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find it interesting that those of us in our older

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years look at the events of today's world and instantly

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describe them as being extremely strange times. Yet high school

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students to mid thirty year olds don't find reason to

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wonder about current conditions with politics, religion, and finances. See

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my choice is to listen to their stories, their dreams,

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and reasons as to why they allow themselves only so

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much time to work at a job. Not only am

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I empowered by their attitude, but I love how the

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older generation isn't afraid to speak openly about how strange

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things feel right now? My parents kept to themselves. We

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have missed out on a lot of truth. How were

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your parents when you were growing up? Were they open

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and honest with everything that was going on when things

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were tumbling in other nations and maybe in our own

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country the financial crisis got worse at times? Did they

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openly sit down and talk with you about it? There

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are so many things that go unspoken, and by the

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time it's given to you to digest, you're going, Hi,

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did this just happen? Is this new? Every story has

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a beginning, and many of those beginnings are decades ago.

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If we don't take the time to truly go back

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and have a better understanding of the first initial steps,

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then we're going to be lost on our personal step

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from right now because we're going to assume that hearsay

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of what is here is not right. If you don't

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understand that beginning, which is one of the reasons why

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I live off the mantra, share your story or someone

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will write it for you. I don't want the future

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part of my family to assume they know who I am.

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I want them to know. I want them to have

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and to hold. I want them to be able to

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learn from what it was like to go through September eleventh,

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two thousand and one, to go through the pandemic that

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locked us all down for two years. I want them

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to know that instead of reading about it in a

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book where assumption is given its own beginning, its own origin,

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learning how to put your emotions on a page. Which

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is why I find it very interesting that those of

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us who are older in years, we look at today's

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world and instantly describe it as being extremely strange times.

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The younger generation, what do they have to compare it

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to except for the lockdown that was strange times. Not

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too many people are talking about September eleventh, But if

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you were to break into a conversation, you might get

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more than just yeah, that was a strange day. What

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were your personal experiences? That's what we need to do

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as this generation, learning to listen to each other's steps.

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I'm Maril, and that's streme thinking.