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. Man,
It is so hard to locate an echo inside a
very noisy presence on this planet, locating that echo when
it was the last time you heard one. Do we
have a problem hearing things? Or is there so much
going on around us that it confuses the imagination? Research
says the world is getting louder. Who better to know
this than those who are in traffic in those emergency vehicles.
I mean, something has got to cut through all of
that sound, and it's their sirens that's getting our attention.
Noise pollution can also cause human stress, and it raises
our blood pressure. Getting the mind, body, and soul into
areas of calm should be a daily requirement. But is
sitting in a car during rush hour the answer? No
radio one, just you in that car. I prefer to
write in silence now. Sadly, though, because I am a
daily writer, the voices in my head and heart are
overbearing to the point of total distraction, So I rely
on meditation. It's a brilliant step toward peaceful healing, but
getting there can be blocked by physical and mental storms.
We're all getting tired of going Can you say that again? Hmm?
What'd you say? Hmm? I thought that's exactly what you said. Really,
what did you say again? Hey, Sarah? This is the
daily mess, chronological walk through an everyday world. I am
a daily writer, a silent wolf, watching life, observing things
that are taking place, without picking up a book or
reading something on my smartphone. It's all right here, and
it's how we act and react that brings the story
forward into that mind, body, and soul, into those places
that are going, Oh it's too loud, Oh my god,
it's too loud. This is the daily mess, the attempt
to select the right thought to be shared. We all
struggle with this, the right thing to say at the
right time. I struggle because most people don't understand my
methods of using words. They want black and white, steak
and potato. But I'm putting things out there the way
a poet plays with emotion as well as expression. It
might sound perfectly clear to me, but to the receiver,
they're deciding in that moment if it's something they agree
or disagree with. I truly try to keep what I
share amazingly simple. But there are times that I come
back to this daily writing and I have no clue
as to what I was trying to share. So I'm
left with the interpretation, just like somebody who is listening
to my voice. So what am I hiding from? Do
I use poetic messages as a way to expose a
different personality? I'm not so sure that's true. The writing
is more about the moment and not the movement, act
and react. How are you putting things out there on
social media or when you are in a crowd, how
are you putting your words, your expressions pitch volume and
tone into the hearts and ears of those that you're
standing with. And do they understand what you're trying to say?
Because how many times have you been in a position
where you're going I have to explain it to you again, Well,
I didn't get it. I didn't understand what you were
trying to say. What is your interpretation here of what
you're trying to ask? That happens to me a lot
with my podcasting, where I'm blessed with the opportunity to
talk with a lot of movie directors and actors and musicians.
I will ask them the questions and they'll come back going, whoo, dude,
do it again. I Yeah, that was right over my head.
Can you please just kind of slow it down and
use a simpler way of asking that question? The attempt
to select the right thought to be shared? And how
often when you share a thought does somebody feel offended?
And it's like, I didn't mean that. I really didn't
mean that. I was pushed into many, many HR meetings
while interrestrial radio because I would write things out to
motivate members of my staff, and you know what, they
would take it so wrong that they thought I was
spreading the word get religious on them. And it's like,
that's not where that was coming from at all. Please,
I'm sorry, Accept my apology. The attempt to select the
right thought to be shared? How do you get out
of it when you've said something poorly? Do you stay
in and try to defend yourself, which could lead to
an argument, or do you say whoa hold on? Hold on,
hold on, okay, Okay, I get what you're hearing versus
what I'm feeling. Okay, so let's work this out. We
are saying a lot of crazy things these days. We're
also experiencing a lot of crazy things these days, and somehow,
some way, we got to get them together. They got
to collaborate together. But we've got to be able to
say it without bad tones orquestions that really offend others.
Be aware, Sit down sometime and ask yourself some questions
and find out what you are really like. Practice it
on yourself first, and then set yourself free. I'm Errow,
and that's the daily mess.