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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's in your

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present now. To get there requires practice, a lot of

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well focused practice. Just one sheet of paper, ten minutes,

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write about whatever is moving through your presence of what

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is right now, no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your skills

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as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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Learning how to trust what is right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from July twenty seven, twenty

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twenty three. If we didn't have the date on our smartphone,

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would we know the day of the week. Here's what

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the experts say that without a calendar, we would be

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lost not just about the days, but we would lose

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interest in what year it is. It would be extremely

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difficult to keep up with it on our own. They

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use problematic October fourth, fifteen eighty two, a huge day

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in history. That's when the Georgian calendar was introduced. As

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a way for it to align with a Julian calendar,

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ten days had to be eliminated from the map, those

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ten days October fifth through the fourteenth gone just like that,

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which means no one was born and no one died.

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Two hundred and forty hours taken off the clock. Ten

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days is a week and a half of work. If

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you make fifteen dollars an hour, that's eight hundred and

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forty dollars. Can you imagine what would happen if the

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world move from seven days a week to eight days

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a week. The calendar, it's not that we are addicted

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to it, it's just that we can't live without it.

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And if you could see my Google calendar and see

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how things are planned out, not just one day in advance,

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but I'm working sometimes one and two weeks in advance,

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which really gets inside my head and heart and kind

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of screws around because I'm somebody who believed in the now.

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Isn't that what stream thinking is, learning how to trust

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what is in your presence of right now? But if

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I'm show prepping a week and a half in advance,

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what's the downside of something like that? Even for you

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if you're working in a kitchen, or if you're working

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on a job that's in a bank, or if you're

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a school teacher. If you're working toward one week to

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two weeks ahead of schedule, how are you reacting when

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you finally reach that part of the calendar. Do you

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even remember doing the homework. I've had to physically develop

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a relationship with the person that does the show prep

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for all of my interviews on my podcasting. That relationship

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is I have to trust the researcher personality. I've got

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to be able to say, Okay, what they were feeling

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a week and a half ago still is very present

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in this place of now, and I've got to trust

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what they put on that page for show prep. The

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same has got to be true for mechanics. They can

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look at a calendar and know what their month is

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going to be like with the always expected interruption somebody

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who has a last minute change, or somebody who's got

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an emergency and they need to make a change inside

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their car or their truck. Prepping for the future. The

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importance of the calendar. Once again, it's not that we're

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addicted to time. We have to have it as a

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form of survival. I'm Eryl, and that's stream thinking.