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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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There's no way that I'm the only one that goes

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through this every night, writing while you're dreaming, and yet

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when you write it out and you want to go

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back and read what you have written out, it's gone.

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There's no physical presence of all of that energy put

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onto that page. And then you remind yourself, I was dreaming.

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But what if we could write while we dream late

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at night. It seems like an easy task, but igniting

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the ambitions to put words on a page demands a

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focused mind, not something in Lalla land. I do dream

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about writing, but without notice, all of it, like I said,

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is gone. I'm not getting it back. What was I

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writing about. I don't remember. It was a dream. Well.

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I had to do some research here, and the research

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says that writing text messages while you sleep is the

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new normal. Experts say it's also very dangerous. In a

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recent study, twenty six percent of college students admitted to

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sending out messages without really knowing they did it. Mental

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health professionals love hearing about how people like to write

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before going to bed. But we have a problem here.

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It can wake up the natural system of sleep because

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it's difficult to let go of what you were creating

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on that page. I've always called it waking up the monsters.

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In the same study, they do say a proper discipline

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can make it better to sleep at night. Write for

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only five minutes, not six, not four? Five minutes? Why

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can't we write while we sleep? Would you really want

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to read it in the morning? Hey, Tarrow, this is

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the daily mass, chronological walk through an everyday world. I

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am a daily writer. I write about what's in this

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moment of now. There is so much that we can

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be learning if we would pay attention. My brother Teddy,

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God love him, he would always put his middle finger

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on his forehead and go think, think, think, don't stop thinking.

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And I learned from that because what was he feeling

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in that moment of reminding me to think? What is

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in this moment of now? There's always a lesson, and

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we choose to ignore it and then complain about life

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ten minutes from now. This is the daily mess reaching

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that's a big word, reaching into the presence of what's

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quickly becoming a brand new day. Without that activation, today

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is just going to turn out like yesterday and the

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day before. My parents had jobs late into their seventies

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and then into their eighties. Although we never talked about it,

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I'm sure it's because there was no real payoff in

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their retirement. They kept reaching. Learning how to identify what

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you're reaching for is essential to the journey. Because I'm

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a daily writer, I know my goals, I know where

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I need to be traveling. We aren't getting anything back

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from the investment. Reaching extends. It's moving ourselves forward while

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creating a sense of security. I mean, it's too easy

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to land a job and then settle in. We've learned

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to accept life as it is. My parents knew they

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had to show up at their late night jobs. Then

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they would sleep until twelve noon and then get ready

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to reach into that job laid into their seventies and eighties.

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So I asked, very honestly, what is your reach? It

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has to be bigger than a goal and much larger

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than a dream. The reach has to be fully activated

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before you receive the blessings reaching. What is that ambition

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that you're trying to get to and the word trying

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really falls flat on my path. And the reason why

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is because trying means you're trying, it's not doing. There's

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a difference between trying and doing. Reaching is the same

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exact thing. What are you reaching for? And why can't

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you grip it? Is it too large? Too heavy? Is

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it impossible because maybe you don't have the skills to

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actually have it? Not everybody can play in the NBA,

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the NFL, and Major League Baseball. Those that are on

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those teams are the luckiest people on the planet. The

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same is true about terrestrial radio. Anybody who is doing

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terrestrial radio in this modern day and age with streaming

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everywhere lucky, very very lucky. But so many like to

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just get the job and settle in, while those who

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are starving for the performance are out here going what's next?

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What am I reaching for? I'm gonna get this, I'm

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gonna ge I'm gonna attempt this, I'm going to break this.

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I'm going to go here and I'm going to achieve.

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Oh whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? Reaching achieve? Now teach it?

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What did you find while reaching and then achieving? Because

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no matter where you go, there's always somebody behind you

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that is also reaching, but they're having a difficult time achieving.

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Where are the teachers? Where are the motivators? Most of

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the time, what we have are people that just tell

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us what to do because we showed up one day

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at work and we fit in. We just kind of

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just settled in and then the boss man's going, ah,

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I gotta get a moving I deal with it all

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the time at my essential job. They just come in

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and they're not reaching. They're standing there, they're on their

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phones in that chair. So I invite you to reach

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and then achieve, and in that process of victory, teach it.

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I'm errow And that's the daily mess.