Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in your
present now. To get there requires practice, a lot of
well focused practice. Just one sheet of paper, ten minutes,
write about whatever is moving through your presence of what
is right now, no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your skills
as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
Learning how to trust what is right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from July twenty seven, twenty
twenty three. If we didn't have the date on our smartphone,
would we know the day of the week. Here's what
the experts say that without a calendar, we would be
lost not just about the days, but we would lose
interest in what year it is. It would be extremely
difficult to keep up with it on our own. They
use problematic October fourth, fifteen eighty two, a huge day
in history. That's when the Georgian calendar was introduced. As
a way for it to align with a Julian calendar,
ten days had to be eliminated from the map, those
ten days October fifth through the fourteenth gone just like that,
which means no one was born and no one died.
Two hundred and forty hours taken off the clock. Ten
days is a week and a half of work. If
you make fifteen dollars an hour, that's eight hundred and
forty dollars. Can you imagine what would happen if the
world move from seven days a week to eight days
a week. The calendar, it's not that we are addicted
to it, it's just that we can't live without it.
And if you could see my Google calendar and see
how things are planned out, not just one day in advance,
but I'm working sometimes one and two weeks in advance,
which really gets inside my head and heart and kind
of screws around because I'm somebody who believed in the now.
Isn't that what stream thinking is, learning how to trust
what is in your presence of right now? But if
I'm show prepping a week and a half in advance,
what's the downside of something like that? Even for you
if you're working in a kitchen, or if you're working
on a job that's in a bank, or if you're
a school teacher. If you're working toward one week to
two weeks ahead of schedule, how are you reacting when
you finally reach that part of the calendar. Do you
even remember doing the homework. I've had to physically develop
a relationship with the person that does the show prep
for all of my interviews on my podcasting. That relationship
is I have to trust the researcher personality. I've got
to be able to say, Okay, what they were feeling
a week and a half ago still is very present
in this place of now, and I've got to trust
what they put on that page for show prep. The
same has got to be true for mechanics. They can
look at a calendar and know what their month is
going to be like with the always expected interruption somebody
who has a last minute change, or somebody who's got
an emergency and they need to make a change inside
their car or their truck. Prepping for the future. The
importance of the calendar. Once again, it's not that we're
addicted to time. We have to have it as a
form of survival. I'm Eryl, and that's stream thinking.