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.
I guess maybe I'm becoming an old man, the guy
that looks at life and just shakes his head from
side to side, going m m mmmmmmmmmmm. Man. I think
it's time. I think it's time to break free from
the headlines. I mean, with so much negative energy pouring
out of so many communities, it's getting tougher and tougher
every day to even want to get outside and walk around.
But we can't walk in fear, doubt, and shame. Experts
say the best way to break free of the headlines
is to challenge yourself in the way of turning it
into a game. Just seven days, that's all it's going
to take. In that time period, delete the apps from
your smartphone and block the websites that share the news,
and please stay away from the news at five o'clock
at eleven o'clock, and don't go anywhere near the late
night shows because they're always talking about the news. Deprivising
is a very tough journey, like that of any other addiction,
and you will have serious withdrawals. Creating a new habit
takes thirty days, which is why I'm going seven days.
You're just barely scratching the surface. News deprivation is a
big challenge, and it barely scratches the surface of what's
going on inside of you. I mean, this is how
I became a daily writer. It was back in September
of nineteen ninety seven. I'm going, why don't I journal
write every single day? And so I challenged myself to
write one thousand pieces of poetry, a new poem every
day for a thousand days. All of a sudden, it
became a serious habit. And then when it came to
writing that book of poetry and then to release it, No,
when I went back and did the research, I realized, yeah,
there's a lot of great poetry here, but the real
message is in the writing. And that's why I became
one man'sy twenty one thoughts. Hey, Zaro, this is the
daily mess, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I
am that daily writer. There are a lot of things
that we experience on a daily basis. Like a few
minutes ago, I just had a great conversation with Ed
Bagley Junior, the actor. Here's a thing. In that conversation,
Ed and I were talking about Marlon Brando doing the
movie Missouri Breaks and Billings, Montana. He was there, and
then we started talking about camping on the Yellowstone River,
moments like this, and then you go, how did we
get here? Daily writing is such an important part of
your journey? Now does he daily write? His answer is
in that podcast it I'll give you a little hint.
He said, No, WHOA So I understand. Yes you can
do it, and no, you don't have to do it.
This is the daily Mess. Another full day of conversations today.
It's a blessing to get seven to twenty minutes with
anyone willing to share their creativity. While I've been judged
for being too open with why I break bread with
so many famous it's still an amazing walk to just
listen to how the art flows through each person so differently.
The end result could be music, a book, a movie,
a news story, but in the end, it's still an
expression generated by the inner calling of knowing how to
use your art as a way to reach people. These
podcasts that I do are more than a history lesson
of the artist. The questions are designed to inspire you,
the listener, who's sitting on top of your shape of
creativity and not letting it go. See when we set
things aside like that, in essence, we're hiding. It's not
a guilt trip. It's more like a challenge. Don't take
your eye off the art. It's the beginning, middle, and
end of something that deserves recognition. What are you sitting on?
What are you keeping from the rest of us? I
know that podcasting is one of those things that people say,
you got how many podcasts? How many different shows are
you doing? Why? Why? And the reason why is because
it's an outlet. It's an opportunity to just test the waters,
to see if it's too hot, too cool, Maybe there's
something here that you can learn from. For instance, I
just started a new podcast called Forest Stories. I've been
a part of this forest for thirty two years. But
people don't know the story. Lord knows. I write and
talk about it enough, but you don't know the story.
It doesn't have to be a Walden Pond's moment, but
there is a pond over there, there's a slow moving stream.
My deck is twenty three feet off the forest floor,
so in essence, I'm sitting with the birds in the trees.
Why not experience moments like that in your own personal life.
You don't have to have a forest. You can have
your moment, your art, your voice, your presence. Leave something
for those that are following you. I'm Eryl, and that's
the daily mess.