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Speaker 1: It's been one of the greatest adventures having the opportunity

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to share conversations with those that are featured on NBC's

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The Voice. The podcast is called That Voice. It's ten

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years of those talks before they even made it to

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the finals. What was that like? Ero dot Net, Arroe

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dot Net. Enjoy the exploration. I really do like asking questions.

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And the reason why is because the fund begins when

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you start doing the research, such as when did we

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become this I want it now generation? Plus your smartphone

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and all of those apps. It's the one driving force

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behind us regaining control of life. My name is Erro.

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I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf. I stand on

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the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate.

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I happen to call it the daily Mess. It's a

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chronological walk through in everyday world. Yeah, it's my morning

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writing as a receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as

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people and to throw things to the side because we

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think we're going to deal with it later on. When

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a subject arrives inside of me, it is time to

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dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but by

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doing the research, the picture becomes clearer. This is the

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daily mess. When did we become the I want it

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now generation? Wow, there's no particular parent or grandparent that

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we can actually point to. Our desire to want things

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now has been engineered over time. This isn't a nineties thing.

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This isn't the seventies or the eighties or the New millennium.

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It is over time. They say that life change for

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millions of people after World War Two. Mass production was

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the movement. Convenience had become the virtue. It became a

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word fed by two rivers, speed and progress. Waiting was

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no longer necessary. By the nineteen eighties, cable TV jumped

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on board as the media and medium began to accelerate.

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I mean, we're talking about twenty four hour news, infomercials

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and the infamous lines call now, how about this one

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for a limited time, or the really big one don't

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miss out, or the one that always gets me? But wait,

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there's more. They all say one thing, I want it now.

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Then the Internet hit in the nineteen nineties. Handwritten letters

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didn't wait three to five days to reach a person.

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We had emails, We still text, and now we have

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face to FaceTime on that phone. Searching at the library

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has become passe. The Internet was so much faster, and

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now we get upset when the Internet has tripped or stumbled.

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Once information became instant, having patients was actually friction and

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not a virtue. Coming up next, how do smartphones in

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their apps play into this? Hey, thanks for coming back

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to the daily mess. How did smartphones and apps evolve

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into making us the I want it now generation? Your

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personal phone and all things attached? Was the tipping point

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in twenty ten one click buying same day delivery. We

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started streaming music and TV shows and didn't want to

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wait for the networks on their nightly schedules. The brain

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instantly fell in love with the dopamine it created while

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searching for things on demand. Well, here's the thing. Our

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need to want things right now has hit a psychological low.

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We want instant validation, answers to all questions, a quick

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fix to our bad emotions, and rapid success. Delay feels

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more like rejection. This is how we're changing. People have

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made it very public and very clear. I need to

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slow down. We're getting into long form conversations again. I mean,

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vinyl and film have made their way back into our lives.

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And what about my fullness it's helping so many people

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who are dealing with burnout. No matter how fast we're traveling,

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having patience builds depth, meaning, and resilience. You gotta ask yourself,

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do I really need to download this? I'm Eryl and

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that's the daily mess.