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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

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unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is

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in your present now. To get there requires some practice.

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Just one sheet of paper every day, ten minutes write

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about whatever is moving through your presence, of what is

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right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your

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skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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Learning how to trust what is right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from August twenty on twenty

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twenty three, I feel like a wanna be television chef

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on a reality show whose presentation is undercooked or is

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a chunk of cake that's about to explode in that

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beautiful oven. Now openly, I admit that I am an artist,

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a creative source, but I'm not great at it. I

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keep practicing, but is it the fine art of being?

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My kitchen is the universe. I say yes to as

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much as I can fit onto that Google calendar, and

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I'm sure there's an expert somewhere that's gonna say slow

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it down. You've got to make room to make mistakes,

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to feel failure. Let us all be filled with creativity.

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Slow it down. How often in your everyday world do

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you find yourself just get it done, get it done,

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just get it over with, and then what are you

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gonna do to me? That's the act of rushing to wait.

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So many times, when I'm invited to perform in front

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of several hundred people, for that day to happen requires

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at least twelve to fourteen hours, I've got a prep

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for it. I've got to be mentally ready to go,

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set up the stage, bring on the performance, take my

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toys home and put them away. But many, many, many

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times I find myself being ready to hit that stage

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six and seven hours way too early. I hurry up

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to get things done. So when I hear a comment

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that says, whoa slow it down, make room in your

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heart for creative failure, I have to sit back and

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wonder what kind of things will my heart create in

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the way of trying to write a story before it happens.

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Many times I think we're all very guilty of rushing

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our way to something because we don't want to have

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to deal with, oh what if it doesn't go right.

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I really do feel like a television chef when I'm

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in my kitchen because I love to prepare for things.

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One of the things that I've taught myself how to

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do in order to slow things down. When I create

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a beautifully flavored soup, I make sure that it is

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so hot that you can't sit there and guzzle it down.

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You have to take it one tiny tablespoon at a time,

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and it is hot. In my heart, I believe it

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creates conversation. When you slow things down, we have things

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to talk about. We have room. Like the experts would

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probably say, make room for failure, make room for conversation,

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make room for just some stream thinking. I'm Marl and

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that is stream thinking.