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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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I guess maybe I'm becoming an old man, the guy

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that looks at life and just shakes his head from

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side to side, going m m mmmmmmmmmmm. Man. I think

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it's time. I think it's time to break free from

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the headlines. I mean, with so much negative energy pouring

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out of so many communities, it's getting tougher and tougher

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every day to even want to get outside and walk around.

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But we can't walk in fear, doubt, and shame. Experts

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say the best way to break free of the headlines

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is to challenge yourself in the way of turning it

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into a game. Just seven days, that's all it's going

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to take. In that time period, delete the apps from

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your smartphone and block the websites that share the news,

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and please stay away from the news at five o'clock

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at eleven o'clock, and don't go anywhere near the late

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night shows because they're always talking about the news. Deprivising

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is a very tough journey, like that of any other addiction,

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and you will have serious withdrawals. Creating a new habit

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takes thirty days, which is why I'm going seven days.

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You're just barely scratching the surface. News deprivation is a

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big challenge, and it barely scratches the surface of what's

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going on inside of you. I mean, this is how

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I became a daily writer. It was back in September

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of nineteen ninety seven. I'm going, why don't I journal

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write every single day? And so I challenged myself to

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write one thousand pieces of poetry, a new poem every

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day for a thousand days. All of a sudden, it

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became a serious habit. And then when it came to

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writing that book of poetry and then to release it, No,

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when I went back and did the research, I realized, yeah,

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there's a lot of great poetry here, but the real

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message is in the writing. And that's why I became

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one man'sy twenty one thoughts. Hey, Zaro, this is the

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daily mess, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I

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am that daily writer. There are a lot of things

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that we experience on a daily basis. Like a few

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minutes ago, I just had a great conversation with Ed

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Bagley Junior, the actor. Here's a thing. In that conversation,

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Ed and I were talking about Marlon Brando doing the

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movie Missouri Breaks and Billings, Montana. He was there, and

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then we started talking about camping on the Yellowstone River,

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moments like this, and then you go, how did we

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get here? Daily writing is such an important part of

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your journey? Now does he daily write? His answer is

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in that podcast it I'll give you a little hint.

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He said, No, WHOA So I understand. Yes you can

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do it, and no, you don't have to do it.

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This is the daily Mess. Another full day of conversations today.

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It's a blessing to get seven to twenty minutes with

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anyone willing to share their creativity. While I've been judged

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for being too open with why I break bread with

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so many famous it's still an amazing walk to just

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listen to how the art flows through each person so differently.

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The end result could be music, a book, a movie,

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a news story, but in the end, it's still an

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expression generated by the inner calling of knowing how to

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use your art as a way to reach people. These

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podcasts that I do are more than a history lesson

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of the artist. The questions are designed to inspire you,

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the listener, who's sitting on top of your shape of

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creativity and not letting it go. See when we set

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things aside like that, in essence, we're hiding. It's not

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a guilt trip. It's more like a challenge. Don't take

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your eye off the art. It's the beginning, middle, and

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end of something that deserves recognition. What are you sitting on?

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What are you keeping from the rest of us? I

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know that podcasting is one of those things that people say,

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you got how many podcasts? How many different shows are

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you doing? Why? Why? And the reason why is because

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it's an outlet. It's an opportunity to just test the waters,

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to see if it's too hot, too cool, Maybe there's

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something here that you can learn from. For instance, I

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just started a new podcast called Forest Stories. I've been

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a part of this forest for thirty two years. But

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people don't know the story. Lord knows. I write and

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talk about it enough, but you don't know the story.

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It doesn't have to be a Walden Pond's moment, but

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there is a pond over there, there's a slow moving stream.

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My deck is twenty three feet off the forest floor,

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so in essence, I'm sitting with the birds in the trees.

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Why not experience moments like that in your own personal life.

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You don't have to have a forest. You can have

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your moment, your art, your voice, your presence. Leave something

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for those that are following you. I'm Eryl, and that's

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the daily mess.