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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 let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,

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coming to the page, arriving with discipline, but rarely is

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the heart ever in the mood to release and receive.

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Although it is positive, I can see why so many

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people find no reason to use ink as a connection

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to communicate. It's not a fear of being read, but

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a huge wonder if the well will ever become dry.

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So many creative people rely on their dark times to

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fuel their need to bring something to life. As a

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daily writer of thirty years, I'm not into that mental

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space with my heart. Clearing out the shadows and ghosts

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keeps the process locked down. Forward emotion, which means what

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when it feels like everything else has stopped around you,

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to which I ask, has it really stopped? Just because

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you're feeling blocked doesn't mean that you have no path

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to walk upon. It's also not a good reason to

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jump paths. That's when confusion steps in, and because it

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too isn't moving or producing like you want it to,

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the emotions are flooded with doubt. There's a reason why

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I turn to writing. It hits the core of the

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source of energy. Therefore, those inner voices are given the

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chance to speak, Hey, Sarah, this is the daily mass,

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a chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a

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daily writer. I am the silent wolf. I sit on

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the sidelines and I watch, I listen. I observe in

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ways to where I can become the student and then

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the teacher, and we can grow every step forward by

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taking the time to be in the presence of what

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is right now. This is the daily mess. In the

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moments that it takes to evolve into the acceptable you.

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I'm going to say that one more time because it

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went by really fast and I wanted to hit you

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in a way where you're going to go, oh go.

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In the moments that it takes to evolve into the

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acceptable you, what could you have been doing before getting

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to this place of accepting you? How do you prepare

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to be you? My dog Jazzy has this instant thing

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about waking up and getting the darn day started. The

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first thing that I do each morning is I write.

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There is no studio time until three pages are filled

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with words and thoughts. My main reason is to set

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up the mindset to clear out things that I held

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onto all night long, because I know once I get

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inside that studio, I'm going to have anywhere between three

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to seven interviews, and then I have to post them

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on the podcast to be ready by accepting who it

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is that I am and how am I going to

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evolve into this person. When I hosted morning radio shows

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back in the nineteen nineties, I arrived at the studios

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every day at four am just so I could prep

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and get pumped up on coffee. Now today, when I

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prep for these interviews, I do them three to five

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days in advance to have total control of accepting who

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it is that I need to become. But in your

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moments of building today's you, what could you've done while

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you were gaining access to the acceptable you? Do you

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suddenly become? Do you instantly switch tracks if things aren't

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playing out the way you want them to? Or do

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you sit around complaining? Eh, that's a punch in the gut,

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isn't it. How do you react when things are not

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going the way that you want it to. How do

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you find that place where it's the acceptable you? I've

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sat down with so many different creative people, and the

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majority of them we all agree on one thing. The

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acceptable you has got to be liked by you. Now,

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could that be one of the starting points for you?

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Do you like yourself? I'm not asking you in a

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concer seated or overconfident way. Do you like yourself? What

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is the acceptable you? And the acceptable you? What does

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it expect from the outside you. It's a growing process

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that takes time. But when you start noticing how your mind,

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body and soul do have this harmony and it can

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be reached at any time of the day, then you

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learn to accept you quicker and more often. I'm Eryl,

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and that's the daily mess.