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.
It's probably because they're wearing earbuds, but I'm still amazed
at how many people look like they're getting lost in
a thought place in themselves, in an area of their
mental travels and ability, so that we don't have to
deal with the modern society and all that is unfolding
and basically just breaking. But you can walk through with Starbucks,
a grocery store, you can beat a movie theater. No
matter where you travel, you're gonna see these people in thought.
Once again. It could be because they've got earbuds on and
they're lost in that song or in that message that's
being shared. But it's still a ticket to ride, a
place to escape to and from. Heyszarow. This is the choice.
This is what I was writing while the sun was
waking up on a brilliant new day. Are we living
too much into the future? I mean, is it even
possible guess what the answer is? Yes, But first we
have to identify with why so many of us plan
out dream about and think a lot about the future,
to break free of what is now, the monotony and
the mundane of now, where it feels like nothing is
going our way or the headlines are way too large
to digest? Why would anyone want to stay here in
the presence of now? The future is an emotional target
that gives a lot of people a purpose that's in
itself helps mental travelers manage their own personal frustrations. What
gets you frustrated and what gets me frustrated two completely
different paths you might be inspired by, and I'm going
are you kidding me? How? Why not to be a
debbie downer? I get the reasons why so many people
like to invest in something that is completely one hundred
percent invisible, But the time and emotions spent to keep
going forward eventually plays hard on the head and heart.
No matter what is happening now, this is real. Now,
I'm going to be transparent with you. In the nineteen eighties,
my first marriage, I was just eighteen years old. My
wife had a visionary situation. And what I mean by
that is is that if she was thinking it, then
it was reality. She was always planning, talking about and
getting herself ready for a future that wasn't even born yet.
She spent so much time in that future that she
was a very angry person at the age of seventeen
because her life didn't match what she saw in the future,
and the question for her wasn't how am I going
to get there? Her question was why aren't you taking
me there? Can you relate with this? When you step
into the future and let go of what is now?
Do you blame others for you not being what your
imagination is offering, Because that's a place where we need
to have a conversation, because your reality and my reality,
once again two separate things. What you see in your
long term vision has nothing to do with me, But
in those early years of being married in the nineteen eighties,
it had everything to do with me, because it was
my fault that we could not get there. And when
we would sit down and try to work it out,
to break it down, to help understand where she was
thinking and why there were such patterns, the journey became
even tougher than either one of us ever expected. But yes,
we are living too much in the future because we
want to escape this place called now. I don't want
to say, well, just look around you, look around you.
There's other things to look at outside of Google, CNN
or some sort of war story in other countries. I understand,
and I have the compassion for those that are living it.
But in your own personal place of now, it is
not selfish to want to share your personal experiences. I
just had a conversation with five time world boxing champion
Andre Ward, and he speaks the same street. He understands
that what he's gone through in his life, yes he
had to plan for future fights, Yes he had to
plan for all of these ways to recover and to replenish.
But now he's saying, I have this as an experienced trip,
and if I don't share my personal journeys and how
I got through the mountain, over the mountain, around the mountain,
then that is the act of selfishness. It's something to
work on on a daily basis, understanding how far you
truly want to travel when you're thinking about the future,
because once again, to get back there over and over
and over again is going to tire your mind and
your heart. I'm arrow, and that's what I was writing
while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new
day