Arroe Unplugged Page One Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty Two The Daily Mess

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
It's always been very difficult for me to sit in
circles of complainers, those that are complaining about their job,
complaining about someone in their life, complaining about the price

(00:21):
of food, gas, and everything else. Complain, complain, complain. So
I sit back and I just listen. I want to
know the root of the value they're putting in to
that complaint, the root of the value, because it's coming
from somewhere. There's somebody very close to my family that

(00:43):
does nothing but complain. You ask her about something very
positive that's taking place, she'll share it with you and
it'll be followed by a brand new complaint. How do
we find the happiness button? Does it exist? Can we
get on Amazon? Does Walmart sell it? Is at the
front of the store or the back of the store,
maybe the frozen section. What is it about complaining that

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seems to fuel the people that we're with, including ourselves,
Because how often do we on this side complain? And
is it a real complaint or just an observation. Hey
it's arrow. This is the daily Mess, a chronological walk
through an everyday world. I am a daily writer. I

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like to sit beneath the brush of the trees like
a silent wolf and just watch, to listen, to experience,
to see if we can locate newer paths of discovery,
because isn't that what life is all about. It's all
out there. We choose by complaint or just a choice

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to not want to listen or look. This is the
daily mess. Another full day of creative conversations. Mmmm. That's
what we do with podcasting, or at least mine is
that I'm blessed with the opportunity to talk with a
lot of creative people. You talk about a moment where
the emotion it can be in any direction, and when

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you line them up like a true junket, your emotions
as the interviewer has to go through whatever it is
that they're feeling. Because you're not wearing their shoes, you
don't know what their actions or reactions are going to
be like. But it's another full day of creative conversations,
and my job is to do nothing but listen to

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hear the heartbeats of the artists that somehow had the
courage to take their creativity and kick it out of
the house. I made you, now go away. Book authors
who guarantee one book a year are constantly facing a
deadline now listening to their story on how it comes together.

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It never falls apart, or if it does, they don't
speak openly about it. I never hear a complaint from
a book author. Musicians are the same way. Get out
of the house so we can get back to a tour.
By the time we see movies and television shows, the
projects have been finished for months. Now it's time to
promote it. That's part of the process of planting the

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idea into the ambitions of something needing to buy tickets.
Being creative can be a very lonely place. So much
is done on a team of one, like the NFL, NBA,
and NHL. Only a few people a pinch of the
public get to truly be a part of the big

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leagues of teams, and even they are amazingly grateful. Yeah,
that big team of one. I worked for a major
league broadcast company for nearly twelve years and the department
that I held was the production department. I was in
charge of the creativity of bringing advertisers to listeners. It

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was never a job to me because my goals were
to try to come up with whatever is missing in
that connection with the listener and the radio stations advertising.
And what I mean by that is is that people
are always telling me I don't listen to commercials. Well,
why not. You talk about one of the greatest educational
tools that's out there. They're giving you information on how

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to make your life better and greater. Why wouldn't you
want to listen to the commercials. Well, they have nothing
to do with me. Oh well, Now, as the writer
and the producer of commercials, that's what I wanted to do.
I wanted to make these commercials about not only the client,
but about those that are receiving it, those that are listening.
Here's the truth. I was only a team of one.

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I had other talent who would voice commercials, but to
do it at the level that I was trying to achieve,
I was on a team of one. And it was
such an amazing journey to be able to create at
levels that actually earned me an Awards nomination, which gave
me the chane to go to New York City to
feel the atmosphere to be with other creative people. And

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sometimes I think that's what complaining is all about. People feel, well,
this is what I wanted, but it didn't happen the
way I needed it to happen. So I'm going to
push anything and everybody away until I can figure this out. Well,
you're never gonna figure it out because life is changing
so quickly. The evolution of your ambition is controlled by you.

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And if the complaining is creating a negative spot where
you feel like, well, I've got a voice now because
I can complain. I was in a conversation yesterday and
we spoke about the opportunity that I was not going
to get, and that was I am not going to
be a Turkey person, nor was I going to grow

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up to be an angry old man. A turkey person
is somebody who leads people without really being who it
is that they say that they are, but he or
she leads people into areas that kind of messes things
up a little bit for others. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. But it's a turkey person. It's not a
normal person. It's somebody who has this vision and they

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find followers and sometimes it just doesn't work out, and
I told him, I said, look, I said, dude, coach,
I'm not going to be a Turkey person, nor am
I going to be a grumpy old angry man. It's
a choice, and I invite you if you are experiencing
these cranky moments. The choice is who am I affecting?

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You already know how you feel, But who am I
affecting that can change the ballgame. I'm ero And that's
the daily mess.