Speaker 1: I guess you could say I am a graduate from
the school of hard knocks. I live life at its
easiest as well as its hardest, and I learn how
to bring it all together to live a life of peace, mindfulness, forgiveness, compassion.
I am addicted to creativity. I've got to have it
at all times. I'll wake up in the middle of
the night and I'm talking away of what I don't know.
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. When was the last time that
you were mentally moved by an event or a personal
experience Your first reaction was what It's completely natural to
take note of that moment then stuff it into your
memory banks, only to forget about it. During these days
of digital I'm meeting more and more people who prefer
to speak into their smartphones for later use. Mark Twain
did this. He had a recorder. That's how he got
his story. Ideas they would come to him and he
would put him inside this recorder. It was his secretary
that laid it out on the page to be in
that moment when mister Twain discovered the power of recording devices.
How much of our own life is wasted setting ink
free in the openness of journals and or note writing.
I've been known to take up my smartphone recorder, but
the thing is other people. I've been known to take
up my smartphone recorder, but it makes others in the
circle feel very uncomfortable, which is pretty strange to me.
Because words shared in the openness of a meeting, why
couldn't it have been documented? You were going to say
it anyway, But the very second that you bring out
a recording device, especially on your smartphone, people tend to
stop moving. They give you the look. Anxiety can be
seen inside their eyes because that recording device is documenting
when in reality, if it wasn't there, we would still
be documenting with our memory. But you know where the
memory goes. It only holds on to what it thinks
it knows. Hey, serow, this is the daily mass, a
chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a daily writer,
a silent wolf of sorts. I love looking out at
everything and finding inspiration and motivation from everything. It's a
lot of content, but it's got to be put someplace.
It's in my journals, a regular journal as well as
a d frag journal. But we learn from it, We
teach from it, we grow with it. This is the
daily mess. Although it was just yesterday, it feels like
days since I put ink in the veins of this
living tree. The mind and memory struggle with the subject
shared not even twenty four hours ago. It's too easy
to return to the scene. If I convince myself to
go back one day to figure out what I was
writing yesterday morning at this very time, I'll expect the
behavior in other experiences forgetting about things can be an
easy out for anybody. My mother used to say, I
don't remember, Well, Mom, I need the answer, son, I
don't remember. Challenging yourself to remember is a huge chore,
but it's also an exercise that you could be doing
every day. I work with people that aren't even in
their twenties yet, and they have a difficult time remembering things.
They rely so much on their smartphone apps and alarms
to keep them on track. And you know what, I'm
guilty of that too, And because I rely on them
so much, I returned to the app in twenty minutes
to remind myself of what I reminded myself back then.
Is it a weakness or do these apps give us
the luxury to find new things to explore. I've been
in the broadcast industry for forty three years. We didn't
have digital devices. Forty three years ago, it was tape,
two track tape. If you want to splice something together,
you had to have a grease pencil and a razor blade. Today,
that would be one of the greatest things to experience again,
because there was something about that time we spe marking
then cutting it allowed us to put pride in the project,
Whereas in the digital world, if I screw up, there's
a big chance you're not going to hear it because
it's so easy to go back and erase it. So therefore,
a complete thought for me as a broadcaster could actually
be several attempts at trying to share a message. How
many times did it take me to get to this
point where we are right now? Did I have to
do some editing? You don't see it, but that's what
we do as broadcasters. We create a thought, we take
that thought, and we move it forward. But can I
tell you what I talked about yesterday? No? I can't
unless I physically take this book right here in my
hands and go back to that day. And I think
I should do it right here in front of you.
So today is April eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Let's go
back to the seventeenth. Oh, he's not a happy camper. No,
he's not a happy camper at all. Wow. He Basically,
I'll read you the words. Jesus please, I teach in
a matter of hours. I honestly feel like I just
got home from the essential job. Well in reality, it
was just eight hours ago. And if I go to
teach broadcasting and then you can feel it on the page,
the depth of the writing instrument on the page. Let
it be written in these pages that the industry I
once participated with isn't what it used to be. The
life and pride are not there. Wow wow wow wow
wow wow. Being honest on a page and then taking
it to this platform. That's a challenge that I would
love to give to you. What are you thinking? What
are you forgetting when you put something in that smartphone?
Is it an identity of who you are or what
you are receiving? Because what you receive can change what
you are and where you are. Do you trust the
wind like that? Are you able to cope with such
situations like that? Because the same old you is not true.
We change every day. Do you accept it? Or do
you sit there and go? If I don't remember it,
I don't have to participate with it. But I challenge you.
I challenge you to take your recording device, share a thought,
and come back to it in seven days and let's
see what you felt in a moment of receiving it
days after you first got your hands on it. I'm
Marril and that's the daily mess.