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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged

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stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now now. To get there

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is going to take some practice. I usually do one

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sheet a day, ten minutes write about whatever is moving

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through your moment of right now, with absolutely no judgment.

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Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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July second, twenty twenty three. Planting thoughts on a page

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on days when you don't know what you're really going

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to say, but as you write, the body begins to receive.

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This is where most creative people step away from the

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page because they begin to question the physical act of

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participating with an idea that has nothing to do with

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their self image. This is who I am, Therefore I

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must act and react in that way. It takes everything

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to create how we live and how we think. We

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must accept that everything we are is a sliver of

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all things around us. How we choose to receive is

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sort of a game we think we can control, only

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to learn that we're nothing but a stone in a

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creek where water is the constant flow. Our greatest thoughts

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and experiences are so easily missed because living in the

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moment of now isn't how we think. But we've got

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to learn to listen to it being in the presence

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of now. The greatest ideas are probably sitting in a

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box somewhere beneath your bed, in the attic or in

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the garage, or you threw it away because you felt

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it wasn't good enough to set it free. I've always

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believed that creative people don't let it go because they

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don't have that art of relinquishing. And it is an

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art because you've got to figure out how to let

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it go without listening to the judge on the other

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side of the stage. And when you accept the fact

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that there's always going to be somebody with an opinion,

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what happens is it toughens you up just a little

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bit more, a little bit more, and a little bit more.

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Julia Cameron teaches in the artist way for you to

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color in a picture, draw something up, and then put

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it on display where people can look at it, because

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what it does is it teaches you to let things go.

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And no matter what other people say, it doesn't matter.

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It's your art and it's out there where it began

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in the universe. So planting thoughts on a page, even

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though you're not in the mood to write, you have

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still put yourself in a position of receiving. I think

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we do it on a daily basis when we go

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to social media. We'll put something out there in the

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form of a picture and or just a thought, and

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what we're doing is as we release it, coming back

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is the energy. And of course we all want to

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be liked and accepted and we want to get new

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friends and blah blah blah. But the thing is is

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that you can do the same thing with your own

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realistic thinking. And that's why I believe so much in

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stream thinking, because if you teach yourself and you allow

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yourself to receive and then to set free, the journey

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now has a purpose. And isn't that what everybody is

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searching for. I'm Marril and that's stream thinking.