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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged

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

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your present place of right now now. To get there

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require some practice. I do one sheet of paper every day,

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just ten minutes. Ten minutes write about whatever is moving

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through your moment of right now, without any judgment. Stream

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thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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June eleventh, twenty twenty three. For some strange reason, my

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daily writing has been called to Google. The goal is

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to research why old guys get grumpy. All fingers point

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to irritable male syndrome. Low testosterone can be a big

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factor as well. The system is robbed of something the

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body has lived on for fifty years. Going through an

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identity shit creates grumpy old man. It's completely natural for

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older men to enter storms caused by a lack of

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workplace environments. Now. Experts say the daily goal should be

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to let go of your loss to youth. The mission

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is to create new identities, which might be the reason

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why I find joy in working at a grocery store.

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It has nothing to do with what I've done for

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the past four decades in broadcasting. Yeah, it's a pain

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in the ass being a used to be, but at

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least I have enough room in my heart to properly

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bag for grocery store guests. It was a game changer

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to go into that grocery store because as a radio person,

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we in vision you. We don't physically see you, we

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don't hear you, so we have to pretend that you're

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physically there. So in September of twenty twenty, write smack

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dab in the middle of the COVID lockdown, I said,

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I gotta be with people. I could have come into

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the studio, and I did, but I couldn't in vision

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people in the way that we have a connectedness with

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physical bodies, minds, and souls. Coming into this studio during

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that time period was very difficult because I lost my way.

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I forgot what you look like, what you sound like,

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and even though I was trying to envision it, I

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lost my way. So I took up that job at

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a grocery store, and there I was, and there I

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still am physically in front of you. So I totally

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get it when they say that a workplace environment change

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can affect a man to become grumpy. Now, did I

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become grumpy? I don't think So That's been my mission.

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Do not become your father. My father was a grumpy man.

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And because I'm aware of it, and I'm mindful of

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my present place of now, I'm doing everything at sixty

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one not to be that grumpy old man. Sure I

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have a moment here, in a moment there, but it's

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not a constant grinding of a grown man breaking down.

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So what I did in September of twenty twenty in

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my writing, in my d frag journals, every place that

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I wrote it was I want to be with people.

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I need to be with people. And where I was

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put wasn't in a church, but rather a different kind

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of community where everybody comes from the homelessness to the rich,

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to the poor, to the middle class. If there still

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is one, men, women, children, all ages in this community

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learning and listening. So if we're kind of talking to

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you right now, maybe you're into that grumpy zone man

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or woman. Maybe What you need to do is sit

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down and ask yourself, what are the top ten things

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that you love about your life, the one that you

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have lived and the one that you were presently living.

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I'm not asking you to go back to your childhood,

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because that's what the experts say. Do not do. Let

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that person in your past, that child, let them go

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and live in this present place of now. Challenge yoursel

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to find out what your top ten favorite things are

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in life and figure out what the connection is. And

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when you do, that's where you belong. I'm Arrol, and

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that's stream thinking.