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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. Learning to live with it is

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the journey, the walk, the way unplugged because we will

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always say yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all

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make mistakes, So turn it into a tool. This is

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arrow unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what

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is in your present now. To get there requires practice.

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Every day I do one sheet of paper ten minutes.

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I write about whatever is moving through my moment of

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what is right now, absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens

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your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as

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an activator. Learning how to trust what is right now.

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This is stream thinking. Today. We're reading from March fourth,

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twenty twenty three, a story about young adults who do

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stupid things. I mean, come on, we all heard it

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growing up, right. I hear it even more today, And

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it's got nothing to do with my age. Research shows

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it's a lack of manners. You see, in the nineteen

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sixties through the nineteen nineties, teens misbehaving were caught up

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in an act of rebellion against authority, whereas today the

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studies show young adults are self centered with no authority.

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It doesn't exist in their minds. I mean, how about

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Chick fil A recently making headlines when a store on

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the East Coast announced that they would not let teens

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in at night without their parents. The reason why is

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because the chicken restaurant is a family restaurant. They want

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that family attitude and atmosphere, and when the teens come

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walking in, things begin to change, which many of today's

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teens struggle with. They don't understand. The number one cause,

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according to this research, is bad behavior and being rude.

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It's followed by impatience. I actually had a teenager tell

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me our parents were rebellious so we could be free. Now,

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this is not a knock against the teenage years. I'm

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just trying to understand the differences between the generations. We've

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all been badasses in our life. We've all made waves.

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We've all made the lady across the street a little

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upset she had to call the cops. We've all been there.

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We've all thrown eggs at houses, and we've done things

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to apple orchards, and we've cut off the rhubarb. We've

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all been there. All I want to do is to

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dig into the research of why today seems more like

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a numbing than an activation of trying to help heal.

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I get what the teenager was saying. We were rebellious

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in the sixties and seventies, and yes, our teens are free,

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but they're free to do. What when does somebody step

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in without offending what it is that they're doing. I

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work at a strip mall. You should see the out

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of control behavior of the young adults. And the best

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way to handle it is I go up and have

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a conversation with them, not a mean one. I just say,

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what's going on, how you guys doing great? What movie

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you've seen. I try to be that neighbor, not the

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one that calls the cops, but the neighbor that says,

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I'm here, I'm here, this is mine too. Don't pain

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on the wall. Please, don't pain on the wall. Not no,

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you don't need to be doing that. But it's because,

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according to the research, they are self centered with no authority. Okay,

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I want to stop there for a second because I

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took this very subject to NFL player R K Russell.

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We were talking about the teens because he's got a

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book that speaks directly into everybody's heart, and I wanted

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to hear his side of the story and it does

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open up your heart to a better understanding.

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Speaker 2: I think that the POV is a little is a

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little different. I think that especially young people now, they

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have so much kind of put on their plate as

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a young age, so much information to them via social media.

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Some of it corrects, a lot of it not, and

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I think that it does kind of make you want

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to be selfish. You see, you know, things like climate change,

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you see the political unrest, you see legislation being brought

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against so many people in ways that insight violence, and

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I think that you feel the only you know, the

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only control you have, the only onness you have, is

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over yourself, and to take your focus inward. I would

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encourage people to know that the only way that we're

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going to get through these hard times, the only way

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that you're going to get to where you want to go,

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that you're going to be happy, is with the people

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around you. It's with support, it's with family, it's with community,

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you know. So I would look at it that way.

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To really be your happiest self and live your happiest life,

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you need to allow people in and you need to

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be there for people. No one in this world we

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weren't brought into this world alone. There's almost eight billion

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people in this world who weren't meant to go anything alone.

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So I really encourage young people to find a community

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that take care about and that cares about them, and

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go with that. Start there, and that'll propel you forward

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and create empathy.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of a scary place to be because what's

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going to follow them. If our rebellious ways as teenagers

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let them be free today, what are their ways going

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to be for their kids in the next generation. We

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should all be constantly aware of what's being accepted, and

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if you don't like it, do something in the community.

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Get involved. Don't be the innocent bystander on the sides

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or locked up in your house because oh it's seven o'clock,

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I ain't going out to dinner tonight. Those crazy ass

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teens are out there. Get to know them, but not

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as an authority. Get to know who they are as

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real people, and develop a nice local community relationship. We

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can all work together. We all love the same music,

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we're all binge watching the same TV shows, We're all

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going to the same movies in restaurants. Get to know them.

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They are beautiful people and look if they are lacking direction.

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In a very calm and friendly manner, say whoo, man,

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I remember when I did that. Whoo the outcome, I'm

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Marrow and that's stream thinking.