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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

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unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is

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in your presence now. To get there require some practice.

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It's just one sheet of paper a day, ten minutes

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write about whatever is moving through your presence, of what

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is right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens

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your skills as a listener, a communicator, and an activator.

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Learning how to trust what is right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from August twelfth, twenty twenty three.

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I'm at that point in my life when all I

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want to do right now is to locate peace and compassion.

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While walking through public areas, you tend to take notes

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of how everybody else is writing the same exact wave.

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Other people's laziness and lack of respect for being true

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to your team and or community is a fire starter.

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So that's when I have to ask myself, how does

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this affect me? Is it really a situation? And is

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there something that I can do about it? So ask

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yourself that question, is there something you can do? About

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it now. Between the ages of twenty five and fifty five,

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I was that guy that would step up and make

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a lot of noise. My goals today are to stay

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free and don't be one who enables others to do

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bad things. Peace and compassion. It means being free of

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what we truly think in public. Don't invite your mouth

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to a party. If something is truly bothering you deeply,

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write it out, don't put it on social media. Grab

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a notebook and write it out. I just got out

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of a conversation with Dee Snyder, the frontman of the

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group Twisted's sister. He's got a brand new book out

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and it's called He's Not Gonna Take It. It's a

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graphic novel, and we started the conversation with Your voice

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has always been strong, it's always been present, and I

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hope that readers find inspiration in this because there are

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too many people that are stepping back and they're allowing

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bad things to happen. People being late, people complaining all

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the time, people doing different things. This is not an

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old man grumpy syndrome situation. This is where is your voice?

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Where is your presence in this place of now? So

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when I do something like stream thinking. It's putting your

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voice on a page, gaining the confidence to be yourself,

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to have a presence in your moment of now, not

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live in a past that you can't change, not try

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to write a future that will change anyway because there's

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too many people involved. But it's to be here in

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this place of now. So when I'm writing on August twelve,

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twenty twenty three, that I've hit that point in my

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life when all I want is peace and compassion, that's

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what i want to be, a voice of peace and compassion.

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I've been the angry employee. I've been the angry person

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in the community trying to protect all of these trees

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in this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. But

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now what's missing is peace and compassion. Where is your voice?

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Don't sit back and wait for other people to make

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up your mind for you. I'm Arrow and that's stream thinking.