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Speaker 1: We think we're in control of our creativity, when in reality,

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it's controlling you. Everything about you is based on how

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that creativity is controlling you. I would try to build

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a friendship with it, to try to listen to it,

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to work together, to collaborate. Unplugged because we will always

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say yes to creativity. Totally uncapp because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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It's one of those dense fog days. I got my

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little ding ding ding ding ding on my ACU weather app.

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It says, warning, there's a dense fog today. Be aware

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of it when you step out and you drive to

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wherever you're going. Dense fog. Now, in this studio overlooking

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this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, we are in

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the opening days of spring, so everything is a beautiful green.

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There's flowers all over the trees. I mean, it's an

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amazing picture, especially when the hawk flies by and I

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look down on the forest floor and I see the deer.

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It's gorgeous. But in this dense fog that is outside

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that they're warning us of, your mind is picking up

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a different type of warning. Don't let the dense fog

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affect your mindset. The sun is coming. You know that

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in your heart that this is going to burn off

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and the sun is coming. So when you put yourself

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in that mindset where you are over your mood or mindset,

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it gives you hope and trust that something better is

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just on the other side. We've got to get through this,

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and it's going to be through the breathing. It's going

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to be through your awareness, your mindfulness. Be grateful of

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the green that's inside your personal forest, and although there

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might be a dense fog, you still feel the green.

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I'm eryl this is the daily mess, a chronological walk

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through in everyday world. I am a daily writer being

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aware of all things, which is kind of weird. I

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want to giggle a little bit about it because I

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was with a famous photographer, Joel Sartre yesterday. He's done

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so many books on preserving what all the animals and

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insects on this planet look like. He's given it to

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the future. But we talked about that about his awareness

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level and that how does he move through his personal

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life knowing that I better have my camera out right

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now because I don't want to miss this opportunity that's

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the way it can be, but he still has it

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under control. This is the daily mess. A commercial on

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TV this morning is trying to sell a new age sponge,

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claiming it picks up everything and it's very easy to

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clean off. Just rinse it and squeeze pet messes, mud

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wine out of the carpet. You're actually going to be amazed.

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They tell me, where's the sponge that picks up where

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we would like to pick up? Let me ask that again,

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where is the sponge that picks up where we would

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like to pick up? I don't want to wash it away.

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What I want to do want to take my dreams

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and ambitions to a different day, you know, kind of

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pick it up from where we are right here, and

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then go ahead and squeeze that sponge and put it

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into a different day so that we can have a

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different ride. That would be the goal. That's the sponge

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I want. We need this sponge so we can put

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ourselves right back where we were. But the reality of

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it all is is that everything will have changed. It's

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not the same NBA that Michael Jordan wants. Shaped broadcasting

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terrestrial radio with the digital platforms. It includes the digital

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metaverse experience, even if this wonder sponge could pick everything

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up and plant you in a different place, how would

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everything around you change once you've fallen off a ladder?

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How quickly are you to wishfully think that it didn't happen.

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Sometimes it's best to wash out the sponge to rid

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the system of the daily mess. Giving yourself permission to

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grow forward. Yeah, this is going to be one of

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those talks living in the past versus being in the present. Sure,

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we had all of these things in this particular part

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of our life, and we would love to have them

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right now that sponge. Pick it up from the past,

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put it right here in the present. But everything has changed.

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It's not going to be the same experience. Why you

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loved doing what you were doing one year ago to

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ten years ago, why you were so into it back then,

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may not be the reason why you want it here today.

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It felt incredible back then, but here today it might

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be in your way. That's why I say give yourself

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permission to grow forward. You had some great times and

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there were some challenges along the way, and you would

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love to put them into play today. Grab that sponge,

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pick it up, drop it here. Everything has changed. Talk

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to a bowler, somebody who has been bowling for decades

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them about the shape of the alleys these days, and

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how much noise is now feeling what used to be

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a place of concentration reaching for the pins. The headpin

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got to get a strike two hundred average. It's all changed.

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The way that they put the oil on the alleys,

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the way the balls are designed, it's all changed. Dealing

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with that change is doing exactly what we said. Rinse

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out the sponge, rid the system of the mess, give

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yourself permission to grow forward him Merril. And that's the

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daily mess.