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.
I don't know what I would do without Google. I've
become such a lazy speller because of spell check, this
digital age, and it does scare me that AI will
eventually just speak for me one day. It will. But
how do you deal with those situations when these strengths
that we once had are just fading away? And it's like,
where is everything going and growing? And how can I
participate in an age where everything is just handed to us?
And if we don't get it handed to us, then
sometimes we can act like a two year old throwing
a king size fit. And that's usually when my dad
would give me more than just a look, Hey, it's Arrow.
This is the daily Mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer, a silent wolf.
I sit back and just watch life. I listen to it.
I try to replenish it while while bringing other things
forward with it. This is the daily mess, the journey
to make sense of the journey to make sense of who, what, where?
Why and how. My father used to tell me all
the time it don't make sense. Although I knew exactly
what I was talking about, he found it to be
very difficult to pull up a chair and just listen
to my side of the story. Making sense to others
requires a connection and a real conversation. One of my
coworkers doesn't know how to make sense of the way
that I do business. He says, you do it wrong.
So what does he do? He puts his hands on
that manager's cap and he starts talking to me in
that vocal tone like a boss. And man, if that
doesn't just get underneath my skin so quickly when somebody
tosses out their authority like that, because it's not about
you becoming a boss to tell me how I should
be thinking. Making sense of my own self is very difficult.
We each of us have to deal with that on
a daily basis. But how do we make sense to others.
It's not about playing out a role. That's not the answer.
It's about being open and authentic as to why the
origin of the subject was invited to the conversation. When
something doesn't make sense, break out the gift of talk
and let's work it out when we don't make sense
to others. I don't want to have to live out
those days with my father again. You don't make sense.
I understand where I'm coming from because I'm going to
break down everything that I do say before I release
it for someone else to listen to. Learning how to
make sense. It doesn't mean you have to be right.
It doesn't mean that everything that you do is wrong.
It's trying to get others to hear your side of
the experience. I daily write. I also keep that defrag journal.
When I need to ask questions, I go there, I
do my studying, I break it down and I make
sense to myself first. Then it becomes part of the conversation.
But the trigger is when you've got something that you've
been working on and you share it with others who
really don't even have the time to listen to you.
They don't want to make sense of your sense because
they're on their own path, and are you willing to
listen to them back and forth. We've got to become
better listeners and better communicators. I'm Meryl, and that's the
daily mess