Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncad because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
It's very difficult to see it this way, but we
presently live in an age we're going to a movie
theater still hasn't returned to the way that it used
to be. Giant blockbusters are fizzling out. I mean, I
just read an article and saw a video of Tom Cruise.
He did a five city tour traveling around the country
to promote his new Mission Impossible movie. He wanted people
to have a movie experience. The actors and writers' strike
is in full swing. Even our binge watching desires are
going to sit there in front of that flat screen TV,
and in the months ahead we're gonna go whoa, whoa,
there's nothing on because they're on strike. One expert says
movie theaters are evolving, they're not dying better technology and
unbelievable concessions. I agree with that right there. One story
shared that movie theaters will never be the same again.
The success of theaters in the past made owners fat
and very lazy, so all they had to do was
just show the movie. They didn't have to super serve
the movie fan like they're having to do today. I mean,
I still visit theaters with ugly seating and poor popcorn,
which is why I do all I can to sneak
in my movie treats, you know, hitting the dollar store first,
and then a tremendous amount of guilt sinks into my
soul when I see the movie theater employee. Yeah, I
got that candy, all right, But I'm cutting into what
they make every hour. Somebody's gonna get fired or they're
going to cut hours, but somebody is going to change
because I chose to go to the dollar store. I
don't like this feeling. I don't because I'm affecting other
people's lives. But how can we make the movie experience bigger, stronger,
and better than it presently is. We need to invest
into those theaters before they start disappearing, and here in
Charlotte they have been Hey, Sarah, this is the Daily Mess,
a chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a
daily writer. I am a silent wolf. I sit underneath
the brushes of life and I watch and I study.
I see the habits of you and me and everything
else that's living and breathing. This is the daily mess. Yeah,
they're telling me, it's a Friday. What day is it
where you are? Is it a Friday, A Monday, a Thursday?
What day is it? The calendar says, well, yeah, I
guess it's a Friday where I am right now. But
I don't know about you, But I bump into more
people every day who find any day of the week
very difficult to digest. It doesn't feel like how did
we get here already? How could it be? They say
that Fridays are supposed to be the happiest days of
the week, mainly because the masses identify a Friday as
being the day before two day weekend. Well that's all changed.
Millions of people are now working too four jobs a week,
part time jobs because nobody wants to give you a
full time opportunity. Their weekend is one day here, and
we'll give you one over here after you work nine
more days in a row. Companies aren't playing by the
two day off rule. Mondays are the most disliked. Maybe
for the normal nine to fiver. My Monday is actually
a Thursday. I go through several mental changes before and
during my Thursday, remembering what day of the week it is.
It's very important. Here's why. Research shows it's how you
and I and everybody else, it's how we design and
play out our responsibilities. You do realize it was the
babylons that created this so called seven day week. It's
all based on the lunar cycle. So to go back
and change the calendar and time would infect and poison
more than we could ever imagine. We're just too deep
into what we think is a pain in the ass,
the days of the week, the time on the clock.
How do you deal with those mental moments when a
Friday really doesn't feel like a Friday. My wife will
tell me, well, it's actually a Tuesday. We've got two
more days, we'll have time off. She does it. I
actually had to ask her, please don't do that, because
I need to know that it really is a Friday.
I need to digest that and that my Friday doesn't
look like someone else's Friday, and that I know that
on Friday, my responsibilities today are going to be ABCD.
I need to do this and it has to be
done at this time. If this were a normal Friday,
I wish the days of the week had a better identity,
But a lot of us are going, no, no, I'm
going to play this day like it's my final day.
Oh have you met those people yet? They do because
they've realized that this day it really could be and
if not, who we didn't fall to our final knee.
Identifying the days of the week, this is the thing
that spires me the most, the research that went into
it that says that we have to know what day
of the week it is because it helps us with
our responsibilities. But if we're going to have responsibilities, we've
got to be held accountable for those responsibilities. But so
often people say it's a Saturday, just just let it go.
We'll deal with it next week. No, you can't do that,
because the way that we design our lives is based
on our responsibilities. I see it here in the research.
But if we let something go, we're not coming back
to it. The reason why is because we're weighed down
with this idea that we think we're in control of
time the seven days a week. We think that because
I work Monday, Tuesday through Friday, everything is good, We'll
take care of it next week. It doesn't work that way.
And I think one of the things that really screws
up our lives is when July fourth, the Independence Day celebration,
happens in the middle of the week in the United States,
because then everybody thinks, I've got a four day weekend.
What are you talking about if we think that it's
a certain day. Allow it to happen, but allow yourself
to be held accountable for what does happen. We've all
got responsibilities. Stick to your game, play your game, and
be a leader in your game, because there's a lot
of people out there that are doing five and six
jobs a week that are more lost than the rest
of us. I'm Ryl, and that's the daily mess.