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 stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is
in your present now. To get there requires some practice.
Just one sheet of paper every day, ten minutes write
about whatever is moving through your presence, of what is
right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your
skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
Learning how to trust what is right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from August twenty on twenty
twenty three, I feel like a wanna be television chef
on a reality show whose presentation is undercooked or is
a chunk of cake that's about to explode in that
beautiful oven. Now openly, I admit that I am an artist,
a creative source, but I'm not great at it. I
keep practicing, but is it the fine art of being?
My kitchen is the universe. I say yes to as
much as I can fit onto that Google calendar, and
I'm sure there's an expert somewhere that's gonna say slow
it down. You've got to make room to make mistakes,
to feel failure. Let us all be filled with creativity.
Slow it down. How often in your everyday world do
you find yourself just get it done, get it done,
just get it over with, and then what are you
gonna do to me? That's the act of rushing to wait.
So many times, when I'm invited to perform in front
of several hundred people, for that day to happen requires
at least twelve to fourteen hours, I've got a prep
for it. I've got to be mentally ready to go,
set up the stage, bring on the performance, take my
toys home and put them away. But many, many, many
times I find myself being ready to hit that stage
six and seven hours way too early. I hurry up
to get things done. So when I hear a comment
that says, whoa slow it down, make room in your
heart for creative failure, I have to sit back and
wonder what kind of things will my heart create in
the way of trying to write a story before it happens.
Many times I think we're all very guilty of rushing
our way to something because we don't want to have
to deal with, oh what if it doesn't go right.
I really do feel like a television chef when I'm
in my kitchen because I love to prepare for things.
One of the things that I've taught myself how to
do in order to slow things down. When I create
a beautifully flavored soup, I make sure that it is
so hot that you can't sit there and guzzle it down.
You have to take it one tiny tablespoon at a time,
and it is hot. In my heart, I believe it
creates conversation. When you slow things down, we have things
to talk about. We have room. Like the experts would
probably say, make room for failure, make room for conversation,
make room for just some stream thinking. I'm Marl and
that is stream thinking.