Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
How do we prepare for the unexpected? Haven't we been
asking that question our entire lives? How do we prepare
for the unexpected? Because there are no real rules, we
find more faith in assumption. Oh, we assume way too
often and way too much. I'm guilty of dumping my
energy into the process of trying to predict an outcome.
My wife and I call it writing the story before
it happens. But it's those moments that we didn't think
of that truly knock us off balance. Wagner forces suddenly
turning on the country of Russia. All we hear about
today is how Putin has reacted. Well, what about the
rest of the world. I haven't seen that story yet.
You know, the real people, detached from the politics and
the propaganda. How did the world react when Wagner mysteriously
backed down and went to Belarus? Where are the real
stories about the real people? Show me a story about
the citizens of the country, not a leader bragging about how, Oh,
we would have squashed them if they would have taken
one more step forward preparing for the unexpected. Nobody saw
it coming. As real people, we've got to remove ourselves
from everything that we assume. Hey, Saro, this is the
daily mass, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I
am a daily writer. I take a simple thought and
I put you in my heart, because what are you
thinking about? What are you going through in your everyday life?
Did you think about this thing in Russia at all
over the weekend and how it could affect you if
something would have happened, how would today's economy be, What
would be the process of finding peace in that country?
This is the daily mess. Sticking to your plans? Oh god, Oh,
I know a lot of people, including myself, we struggle
with that idea, sticking to your plans, no matter what
the circumstances. The sellout is usually against ourselves. I work
with managers that know when things suddenly change that it
could mean sixty to eighty hours a week. Their personal
pain filters down to the rest of the team. I
was asked to meet with a major league broadcasting company
this morning. The request came in at eight point thirty
last night. Right in the middle of my lecture. Boo
boop was my phone. I wrote back during the break.
I said, now, no, no, no, let's make it a
different time and let's do it on zoom. See. I
live a Google Calendar lifestyle, and that means every thing
that I am putting into my day today has already
been planned out, and it has been for days, even weeks.
Saying no to those before the request maybe comes across
as disrespect, but I'm not selling out for the potential
of a big break. It doesn't give off that kind
of a payday. We've got to learn to skick to
our plans, be known for our word. A change in
the plans is always going to be available. Do you
want to be known as someone that can't be trusted? Well,
why should we hire him? He's always changing his mind.
He's never in the same place twice. You'll get him
for five minutes, you think you've got him for something,
and all of a sudden he'll go, ah, I can't
do it. Something has come up. Ooh ooh, that's one
of my pet peeves. Something has come up. I can't
be there. Really, even though we worked on this for
this amount of time and something has come up. Yeah,
something has come up. We do that to our set
every single day. We sell out ourselves. We don't want
to take that extra step to make sure that our
plans stay the same. What was on my schedule that
made me say no to this major league broadcasting company.
You're gonna think I'm conceded. You're gonna say I'm foolish.
I have a movie date with my wife of thirty
one years. Tomorrow is my birthday, and I had one
day this week to see this particular movie before it
disappeared from theaters. I felt that was more important than
talking to a major broadcasting company. Bean with family. I'm
Marrow and that's the daily mess.