Speaker 1: Sleepless nights, middle of the day, you're freaking out. You
feel like there's something that needs to come out, but
you can't get into it. You can't bring it forward.
You feel like you're blocked. I get it. Hey, that's
the way creativity works. We're addicted to it. We gotta
have it, but it's not coming out the way that
we want it. People have to judge it all the time.
Ah 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. I've always looked
at quotes as being seed planters. It makes you go, whoa,
I love that observation, or ooh man, that one didn't
hit me right, go back to the drawing boards, start
all over on that one. But quotes are something that
kind of just flow through me because I believe in
stream thinking. Stream thinking is being in the presence of
right now and whatever is moving through you, put it
on a page, build it up, create at levels that
really nobody else has to see. Create some quotes because
I know you're full of them. Because your journey is
your journey. I've not lived in your shoes, but I'll
bet you're full of quotes. Hey's aero. This is the
daily mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world. I
am a daily writer, and maybe that's one of the
reasons why writing just comes so easily, because I've had
twenty nine years of practice and I am no professional.
All I am is somebody who listens to the daily discipline.
I was talking with actor Bruce Campbell. He's going back
into his writing, all of his ideas, and he's turning
that stuff into books. See how important it is. Just
put a pin on the page. This is the daily mess.
We're gonna talk about quotes today. There's a couple of
them here, one that fell from my writing instrument and
one that Owen Wilson recently said on CBS Sunday Morning.
The first quote came to me on March twenty fifth,
twenty twenty three. The quote is along the way you
realized it was a long way. Along the way you
realized it was a long way. A thought handed to
me while reflecting in the effects of the day that
was just lived. It was tied to a different thought.
We constantly complain about life moving too fast, yet while
we're living life in this moment of now, it's not
moving fast enough. Let me say that one again. We
constantly complain about life moving too fast, yet while we're
living in this moment of now, it's not moving fast enough.
This is why we should never settle on a single
moment of receiving. There's always more to the story, the continuation,
the process that becomes the experience learning to be open
with ourselves in the way of being aware of good
and bad things. Those moments you regret, collaborating with newer
ways to reach out rather than tearing things apart along
the way you realized it was a long way. How
close are we to truly holding on to the right answer?
Are we asking the right question? Not on that for
a little bit, Jewed h Yeah, get the flavor out
of those those quotes. Did you learn anything? I don't know.
It's part of the continuation. Like I said, and I
bump into Owen Wilson and listen to his quote, I
don't think I was good. I just think there were
parts I could play. Oh my god, I sat up
straight when I heard him say that. I don't think
I was good. I just think there were parts I
could play. His honesty serves as an open path for
all who are creative. It's not a choice to be creative.
You were born that way, and it drives you frickin insane.
Creative people are given this huge source of energy, then
we spend the rest of our lives wanting to know
what the hell we're gonna do with it. Say it.
I don't think I was good. I just think there
were parts I could play. Too often, each and every
one of us beat ourselves up over the thought of
not living up to what we dreamed. I've put forty
three years into the communications business and never never made
it to LA Radio like I dreamed as a child.
My entire life was shaped by my decision to come
to the Carolinas in nineteen eighty five so I would
grow as a performer here and enter LA as somebody
and not just anybody at sixty. Owen Wilson's quote eases
the pain. I don't think I was good. I just
think there were parts I could play. That doesn't say
it's over. It just says, hey, I'm an artist. I
do freaky, weird things. I think outside the box. I'm
gonna take chances. I'm probably gonna upset you somewhere along
the way. Just don't hate me, Just can you just
put up with me. It's just a part, a part
that I'm playing because I'm just creative. Okay, I've given
you my excuse. We're okay, right, I'm Eryl and that's
a daily mess.