Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We need it from ourselves, we
need it from other people. We need it in order
to survive. It's like water. You can't live without creativity
unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity totally uncut.
We all make mistakes, so turn it into a tool.
This is arrow unplugged stream thinking learning how to trust
what's in your present. To get there requires practice. Wants
you to paper every day, just ten minutes of your time,
write about whatever is moving through your presence of what
is right now, absolutely no judgment. See. Stream thinking is
going to sharpen 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
January twenty eight, twenty twenty three, and I gotta be
honest with you. We all do this and so it's
really worth the time to talk about it. We all
take things off the counter and we always forget where
we put them. I mean, it feels like such a
great idea. Less clutter is a very appetizing thing for
the eye. I can't easily remember where the items were stored.
The typical and the rightful places are a no show.
I mean, I get it. Food goes into the refrigerator, workplace,
hairnets and COVID nineteen masks. You know, they just totally disappear.
But we need them for work. Yeah, but they're gone.
Where are they? And you end up turning the house
upside down. We're easily convinced to return to the store
to buy more. So I'm beginning to think that we
aren't hoarders, but rather collectors of items that we lost
along the way. Our DJ service once forgot the music
we were going to Raleigh, North Carolina. We got as
far as Greensboro, had to turn around and make our
way back home. Why because the music was in a
different place from the actual equipment. I don't write every
day to remember. I write to try to figure out
where I set down my keys. The imagination is so full,
the heart is overflowing. Everything that we do on a
daily bi is more junk that we are putting on
our path. And you wonder why you're forgetting where you
put things, because it's not important until you need that situation.
There are many times people say, oh, you're just being
an old man. You're starting to show your age because
you don't remember. You don't know where this man's imagination is.
It's trying to sort things out. I've always accused myself
of having multiple personalities, and that's not true at all.
I just keep files. This guy over here is going
to talk about music, while this guy over here talks
with authors. This guy over here goes out in he
RVs this guy over here as an interviewer. And it's
just compartments. And I often wonder when it comes to thinking,
we get lost inside our compartments because we think we're
this person. Would in fact today we're that person, but
we don't want to be that person because that person
comes with rules and we don't like to be with rules.
So therefore, we're going to go to the borderline maker
and create another folder. You've done it before. It happens
all the time on the computer. You sit there and
create all of these folders. But the thing the computer
is is that we have a search engine. We can
type in what we think the title was and poof,
here it comes, and then you return back to work.
But we don't do that with our mental images and
or experiences. There's no search engine unless you write things down.
One of the things that we've turned into a brilliant
Habit is the way that we binge watch television in
this modern day and age. You can't just settle and
watch one entire program. We have a book that's filled
with all of these shows that we are presently binge watching.
What are you in the mood for? We go to
the book. Hey have we watched the ending of that
other one? We go to the book. That's what we
need to do with our everyday life in everyday world.
We need to start creating the paths. Daily writing is
a good way to do it, but sometimes people don't
want a daily write because they're afraid somebody's going to
pick up the book and read about one of their compartments.
You got to learn to trust what's around you. It's
going to make a beautiful painting one day inside the
souls of those that live beyond you. I'm Eryl, and
that's stream thinking.