Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. Learning to live with it is
the journey, the walk, the way 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
is in your present now. To get there requires practice.
Every day I do one sheet of paper ten minutes.
I write about whatever is moving through my moment of
what is right now, absolutely 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 March fourth,
twenty twenty three, a story about young adults who do
stupid things. I mean, come on, we all heard it
growing up, right. I hear it even more today, And
it's got nothing to do with my age. Research shows
it's a lack of manners. You see, in the nineteen
sixties through the nineteen nineties, teens misbehaving were caught up
in an act of rebellion against authority, whereas today the
studies show young adults are self centered with no authority.
It doesn't exist in their minds. I mean, how about
Chick fil A recently making headlines when a store on
the East Coast announced that they would not let teens
in at night without their parents. The reason why is
because the chicken restaurant is a family restaurant. They want
that family attitude and atmosphere, and when the teens come
walking in, things begin to change, which many of today's
teens struggle with. They don't understand. The number one cause,
according to this research, is bad behavior and being rude.
It's followed by impatience. I actually had a teenager tell
me our parents were rebellious so we could be free. Now,
this is not a knock against the teenage years. I'm
just trying to understand the differences between the generations. We've
all been badasses in our life. We've all made waves.
We've all made the lady across the street a little
upset she had to call the cops. We've all been there.
We've all thrown eggs at houses, and we've done things
to apple orchards, and we've cut off the rhubarb. We've
all been there. All I want to do is to
dig into the research of why today seems more like
a numbing than an activation of trying to help heal.
I get what the teenager was saying. We were rebellious
in the sixties and seventies, and yes, our teens are free,
but they're free to do. What when does somebody step
in without offending what it is that they're doing. I
work at a strip mall. You should see the out
of control behavior of the young adults. And the best
way to handle it is I go up and have
a conversation with them, not a mean one. I just say,
what's going on, how you guys doing great? What movie
you've seen. I try to be that neighbor, not the
one that calls the cops, but the neighbor that says,
I'm here, I'm here, this is mine too. Don't pain
on the wall. Please, don't pain on the wall. Not no,
you don't need to be doing that. But it's because,
according to the research, they are self centered with no authority. Okay,
I want to stop there for a second because I
took this very subject to NFL player R K Russell.
We were talking about the teens because he's got a
book that speaks directly into everybody's heart, and I wanted
to hear his side of the story and it does
open up your heart to a better understanding.
Speaker 2: I think that the POV is a little is a
little different. I think that especially young people now, they
have so much kind of put on their plate as
a young age, so much information to them via social media.
Some of it corrects, a lot of it not, and
I think that it does kind of make you want
to be selfish. You see, you know, things like climate change,
you see the political unrest, you see legislation being brought
against so many people in ways that insight violence, and
I think that you feel the only you know, the
only control you have, the only onness you have, is
over yourself, and to take your focus inward. I would
encourage people to know that the only way that we're
going to get through these hard times, the only way
that you're going to get to where you want to go,
that you're going to be happy, is with the people
around you. It's with support, it's with family, it's with community,
you know. So I would look at it that way.
To really be your happiest self and live your happiest life,
you need to allow people in and you need to
be there for people. No one in this world we
weren't brought into this world alone. There's almost eight billion
people in this world who weren't meant to go anything alone.
So I really encourage young people to find a community
that take care about and that cares about them, and
go with that. Start there, and that'll propel you forward
and create empathy.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a scary place to be because what's
going to follow them. If our rebellious ways as teenagers
let them be free today, what are their ways going
to be for their kids in the next generation. We
should all be constantly aware of what's being accepted, and
if you don't like it, do something in the community.
Get involved. Don't be the innocent bystander on the sides
or locked up in your house because oh it's seven o'clock,
I ain't going out to dinner tonight. Those crazy ass
teens are out there. Get to know them, but not
as an authority. Get to know who they are as
real people, and develop a nice local community relationship. We
can all work together. We all love the same music,
we're all binge watching the same TV shows, We're all
going to the same movies in restaurants. Get to know them.
They are beautiful people and look if they are lacking direction.
In a very calm and friendly manner, say whoo, man,
I remember when I did that. Whoo the outcome, I'm
Marrow and that's stream thinking.