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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 let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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I think it's so funny that as I overlook this

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forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, I can see the

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lay of the land and all the different dull colors

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that have now taken shape into this thing called winter.

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But there's no snow on the ground. But what fascinates

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me and makes me laugh like a child is how

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all the animals have blended into the picture. You really

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have to stare into the forest to see the deer,

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to see the different birds. But there's the human when

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they walk by. They've got bright colors, they're talking loudly,

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they're on their smartphones, and it's almost like maybe there

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are times that we need to be invisible to kind

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of just fit into the atmosphere. Now, to get there

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requires what that's the question, that's the exploration. Don't look

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at a winter's day as being ooh, it's just a

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negative feeling here. Look at it as a celebration of

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how can I fit in? Because I think I belong

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I belong. Hey, Saro, this is the choice. This is

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what I was writing while the sun was waking up

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on a brilliant new day. Gifted with another opportunity to

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step forward. Isn't that a great feeling? Gifted with another

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opportunity to step forward. I mentioned to a co worker

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yesterday that I celebrate Christmas every single day. And I

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do blame this on having a heart attack at the

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age of forty seven in two thousand and nine. You know,

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when you're on that table and the doctor has you

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looking at that screen and he's putting that stint in,

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you're going, you know, I gotta change the way I

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think and I live. Well, the coworker didn't buy into

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this idea that I celebrate Christmas all day. They said that, no, oh,

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when you think like that, that's a celebration of self.

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But what you need to do is you need to

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serve the lights and festivities to all people who can see.

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I complimented them on the showcasing of their belief, but

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chose not to say. Everything that you said lives and

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shines through my actions and reactions. I don't need bright

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lights to shine a positive glow, but it's okay to

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have different outlooks and experiences. Sometimes I wish I had

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the blinking lights of Wonder on the outside of my

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home and all of those blow up statues, you know,

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like Sada the Reindeer, penguins and so many others engaging

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in the holiday cheer. And then I remind myself, you

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do have that in the way that you speak, the

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way that you share, the way that you collaborate, the

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way that you have compassion for people that are often ignored,

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set aside, forgotten. It's all there in the way that

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we think Christmas. I have been to celebrate it every day.

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If you do it once a year, I'm okay with that.

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I'm Marrow And that's what I was writing.