Speaker 1: It's been one of the greatest adventures having the opportunity
to share conversations with those that are featured on NBC's
The Voice. The podcast is called That Voice. It's ten
years of those talks before they even made it to
the finals. What was that like? Ero dot Net, Arroe
dot Net. Enjoy the exploration. I really do like asking questions.
And the reason why is because the fund begins when
you start doing the research, such as when did we
become this I want it now generation? Plus your smartphone
and all of those apps. It's the one driving force
behind us regaining control of life. My name is Erro.
I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf. I stand on
the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate.
I happen to call it the daily Mess. It's a
chronological walk through in everyday world. Yeah, it's my morning
writing as a receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as
people and to throw things to the side because we
think we're going to deal with it later on. When
a subject arrives inside of me, it is time to
dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but by
doing the research, the picture becomes clearer. This is the
daily mess. When did we become the I want it
now generation? Wow, there's no particular parent or grandparent that
we can actually point to. Our desire to want things
now has been engineered over time. This isn't a nineties thing.
This isn't the seventies or the eighties or the New millennium.
It is over time. They say that life change for
millions of people after World War Two. Mass production was
the movement. Convenience had become the virtue. It became a
word fed by two rivers, speed and progress. Waiting was
no longer necessary. By the nineteen eighties, cable TV jumped
on board as the media and medium began to accelerate.
I mean, we're talking about twenty four hour news, infomercials
and the infamous lines call now, how about this one
for a limited time, or the really big one don't
miss out, or the one that always gets me? But wait,
there's more. They all say one thing, I want it now.
Then the Internet hit in the nineteen nineties. Handwritten letters
didn't wait three to five days to reach a person.
We had emails, We still text, and now we have
face to FaceTime on that phone. Searching at the library
has become passe. The Internet was so much faster, and
now we get upset when the Internet has tripped or stumbled.
Once information became instant, having patients was actually friction and
not a virtue. Coming up next, how do smartphones in
their apps play into this? Hey, thanks for coming back
to the daily mess. How did smartphones and apps evolve
into making us the I want it now generation? Your
personal phone and all things attached? Was the tipping point
in twenty ten one click buying same day delivery. We
started streaming music and TV shows and didn't want to
wait for the networks on their nightly schedules. The brain
instantly fell in love with the dopamine it created while
searching for things on demand. Well, here's the thing. Our
need to want things right now has hit a psychological low.
We want instant validation, answers to all questions, a quick
fix to our bad emotions, and rapid success. Delay feels
more like rejection. This is how we're changing. People have
made it very public and very clear. I need to
slow down. We're getting into long form conversations again. I mean,
vinyl and film have made their way back into our lives.
And what about my fullness it's helping so many people
who are dealing with burnout. No matter how fast we're traveling,
having patience builds depth, meaning, and resilience. You gotta ask yourself,
do I really need to download this? I'm Eryl and
that's the daily mess.