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
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present. To get there require some practice. Just one
sheet of paper a day, ten minutes write about whatever
is moving through your presence of what is right now,
without any judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener,
as a communicator, and as an activator. Learning how to
trust what is right now. This is stream thinking today.
We're reading from August twenty six, twenty twenty three. I
find it interesting that those of us in our older
years look at the events of today's world and instantly
describe them as being extremely strange times. Yet high school
students to mid thirty year olds don't find reason to
wonder about current conditions with politics, religion, and finances. See
my choice is to listen to their stories, their dreams,
and reasons as to why they allow themselves only so
much time to work at a job. Not only am
I empowered by their attitude, but I love how the
older generation isn't afraid to speak openly about how strange
things feel right now? My parents kept to themselves. We
have missed out on a lot of truth. How were
your parents when you were growing up? Were they open
and honest with everything that was going on when things
were tumbling in other nations and maybe in our own
country the financial crisis got worse at times? Did they
openly sit down and talk with you about it? There
are so many things that go unspoken, and by the
time it's given to you to digest, you're going, Hi,
did this just happen? Is this new? Every story has
a beginning, and many of those beginnings are decades ago.
If we don't take the time to truly go back
and have a better understanding of the first initial steps,
then we're going to be lost on our personal step
from right now because we're going to assume that hearsay
of what is here is not right. If you don't
understand that beginning, which is one of the reasons why
I live off the mantra, share your story or someone
will write it for you. I don't want the future
part of my family to assume they know who I am.
I want them to know. I want them to have
and to hold. I want them to be able to
learn from what it was like to go through September eleventh,
two thousand and one, to go through the pandemic that
locked us all down for two years. I want them
to know that instead of reading about it in a
book where assumption is given its own beginning, its own origin,
learning how to put your emotions on a page. Which
is why I find it very interesting that those of
us who are older in years, we look at today's
world and instantly describe it as being extremely strange times.
The younger generation, what do they have to compare it
to except for the lockdown that was strange times. Not
too many people are talking about September eleventh, But if
you were to break into a conversation, you might get
more than just yeah, that was a strange day. What
were your personal experiences? That's what we need to do
as this generation, learning to listen to each other's steps.
I'm Maril, and that's streme thinking.