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 now. To get there requires a lot of practice.
One sheet of paper every day, just ten minutes, write
about whatever is moving through your place of right now,
no judgment whatsoever. 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 March eighteenth, twenty twenty three. This isn't
an old man talking. It's an observation of lives evolving.
My wife and I watch more television than we ever
have thanks to the lockdown. The thing is is that
we don't tap into an app on the smartphone to
get our entertainment. I work with a twenty year old
that can't read a wall clock with a big hand
and little hand. In his world, it's always been digital.
Many people yesterday didn't know why we were wearing the
color green. Oddly enough, they didn't know what Saint Patrick's
day is. Balloons, pop in our grocery store and people
they actually start moving toward the door. Mass shootings have
given us PTSD. Real people are ubering. They're not buying cars.
The cost is always more important. In an age of
holding down three to five jobs while living with two
to three other people in your small house or apartment.
We learn a lot while watching people move this age
that we're living in. I don't think my parents could
do it. They come from the harder times, fresh out
of World War two. But in this place that we
stand now, uncertainty is a way of life. We just
keep walking. If something gets in the way, like water,
we move around it. Watching people is the best book
I've ever read, because it's not it's what they're doing
as a personality and their individuality. Learning how to communicate
to every generation, because that's what we've become. It's not
just about the young, the old, and somewhere in between.
Everybody is talking to everybody. And I'm at that point
where I don't know the new artists, So teach me.
Tell me what these words mean when you tap them
into your TikTok or your Instagram. See a lot of
people still don't understand Twitter speak. That's a language all
its own. They made it so easy to just say
anything you want on social media that those that are
saying whatever they want are now getting their hands slapped
because it's too much of what you thought. But we've changed.
One of the things that I love doing is I
have one of those little digital antennas that's connected up
to my TV, and I do antenna TV. I do
me TV, and all of these old shows come back.
Not because it's nostalgia to me. No, these are shows
I've never seen, and I believe in my heart if
you're watching it for the very first time, it's brand new.
Learning to watch people. It teaches you, hey, I can
be just like what you're doing, and you find entertainment
in other people's actions and reactions. And yes, there will
be those moments where you say, I'm just an old
man here, and they'll look at you, they might call you, hey, grandpa,
what's going on, buddy, but they accept you learning to
watch other people without judgment. I'm Marrow and that's stream thinking.