Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow
unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is
in your presence now. To get there require some practice.
It's just one sheet of paper a day, ten minutes
write about whatever is moving through your presence, of what
is right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens
your skills as a listener, a communicator, and an activator.
Learning how to trust what is right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from August twelfth, twenty twenty three.
I'm at that point in my life when all I
want to do right now is to locate peace and compassion.
While walking through public areas, you tend to take notes
of how everybody else is writing the same exact wave.
Other people's laziness and lack of respect for being true
to your team and or community is a fire starter.
So that's when I have to ask myself, how does
this affect me? Is it really a situation? And is
there something that I can do about it? So ask
yourself that question, is there something you can do? About
it now. Between the ages of twenty five and fifty five,
I was that guy that would step up and make
a lot of noise. My goals today are to stay
free and don't be one who enables others to do
bad things. Peace and compassion. It means being free of
what we truly think in public. Don't invite your mouth
to a party. If something is truly bothering you deeply,
write it out, don't put it on social media. Grab
a notebook and write it out. I just got out
of a conversation with Dee Snyder, the frontman of the
group Twisted's sister. He's got a brand new book out
and it's called He's Not Gonna Take It. It's a
graphic novel, and we started the conversation with Your voice
has always been strong, it's always been present, and I
hope that readers find inspiration in this because there are
too many people that are stepping back and they're allowing
bad things to happen. People being late, people complaining all
the time, people doing different things. This is not an
old man grumpy syndrome situation. This is where is your voice?
Where is your presence in this place of now? So
when I do something like stream thinking. It's putting your
voice on a page, gaining the confidence to be yourself,
to have a presence in your moment of now, not
live in a past that you can't change, not try
to write a future that will change anyway because there's
too many people involved. But it's to be here in
this place of now. So when I'm writing on August twelve,
twenty twenty three, that I've hit that point in my
life when all I want is peace and compassion, that's
what i want to be, a voice of peace and compassion.
I've been the angry employee. I've been the angry person
in the community trying to protect all of these trees
in this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. But
now what's missing is peace and compassion. Where is your voice?
Don't sit back and wait for other people to make
up your mind for you. I'm Arrow and that's stream thinking.