Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, 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
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now now. To get there
require some practice. I do one sheet of paper every day,
just ten minutes. Ten minutes write about whatever is moving
through your moment of right now, without any 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
June eleventh, twenty twenty three. For some strange reason, my
daily writing has been called to Google. The goal is
to research why old guys get grumpy. All fingers point
to irritable male syndrome. Low testosterone can be a big
factor as well. The system is robbed of something the
body has lived on for fifty years. Going through an
identity shit creates grumpy old man. It's completely natural for
older men to enter storms caused by a lack of
workplace environments. Now. Experts say the daily goal should be
to let go of your loss to youth. The mission
is to create new identities, which might be the reason
why I find joy in working at a grocery store.
It has nothing to do with what I've done for
the past four decades in broadcasting. Yeah, it's a pain
in the ass being a used to be, but at
least I have enough room in my heart to properly
bag for grocery store guests. It was a game changer
to go into that grocery store because as a radio person,
we in vision you. We don't physically see you, we
don't hear you, so we have to pretend that you're
physically there. So in September of twenty twenty, write smack
dab in the middle of the COVID lockdown, I said,
I gotta be with people. I could have come into
the studio, and I did, but I couldn't in vision
people in the way that we have a connectedness with
physical bodies, minds, and souls. Coming into this studio during
that time period was very difficult because I lost my way.
I forgot what you look like, what you sound like,
and even though I was trying to envision it, I
lost my way. So I took up that job at
a grocery store, and there I was, and there I
still am physically in front of you. So I totally
get it when they say that a workplace environment change
can affect a man to become grumpy. Now, did I
become grumpy? I don't think So That's been my mission.
Do not become your father. My father was a grumpy man.
And because I'm aware of it, and I'm mindful of
my present place of now, I'm doing everything at sixty
one not to be that grumpy old man. Sure I
have a moment here, in a moment there, but it's
not a constant grinding of a grown man breaking down.
So what I did in September of twenty twenty in
my writing, in my d frag journals, every place that
I wrote it was I want to be with people.
I need to be with people. And where I was
put wasn't in a church, but rather a different kind
of community where everybody comes from the homelessness to the rich,
to the poor, to the middle class. If there still
is one, men, women, children, all ages in this community
learning and listening. So if we're kind of talking to
you right now, maybe you're into that grumpy zone man
or woman. Maybe What you need to do is sit
down and ask yourself, what are the top ten things
that you love about your life, the one that you
have lived and the one that you were presently living.
I'm not asking you to go back to your childhood,
because that's what the experts say. Do not do. Let
that person in your past, that child, let them go
and live in this present place of now. Challenge yoursel
to find out what your top ten favorite things are
in life and figure out what the connection is. And
when you do, that's where you belong. I'm Arrol, and
that's stream thinking.