Stream Thinking You Probably Aren't A Curmudgeon But Its Worth Looking At

To be or not to be a curmudgeon. Do you have to be old? Nope! Every age group has their own person of great complaint and discomfort and aren't afraid to set it free.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They always teach us in radio one thought per break.
Why can't I have a podcast it does the same thing,
or maybe several podcasts seventeen different subjects and walks of life.
Ero dot net, Arie dot net, thank you so much
for supporting me over the years. Stream thinking it's learning
how to trust what is in your present place of

(00:21):
all things right now. To get there is going to
require some practice. Here's what I do each day one
sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write about whatever is
moving through your present place of right now, with absolutely
no judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your skills as a listener,
as a communicator, and as an activator. It's learning how

(00:46):
to trust what is in your right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from February fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
So often I find myself writing in the way of
making the voice of a chrome mudgeon. Eh. But before
I accept such an uncomfortable self description, it would be

(01:06):
very useful and wise to research what a true curmudgeon is.
Dictionary dot com is my source of information, and it
clearly states it's a bad tempered person, especially an old one. Really,
how true is that? I mean? There can be young curmudgeons.
Mental health experts say, uh huh, You're absolutely right. The

(01:29):
young in age can carry the bad moods and behaviors
right into the definition of a curmudgeon. Anyone can be
one at any age, and they all don't have to
look the same stream thinking, which is what we're doing
right now is not is not the making of a curmudgeon.

(01:49):
And yet I feel like that I'm that guy who's
bringing stuff up. Sometimes people accept it, other times people
do not. It's not that I'm looking at life and
I'm upset with the way that things are growing and going,
but rather it's like, hey, can we talk about this?
Can we talk about this thing that just took place,

(02:11):
like the very first AI generated number one song on
Billboard's charts? Can we just talk about this? This is
not an old man who collected forty five's cassettes and
eight track tapes back in the nineteen seventies. This is
just a regular person going where are we going with this?
Because I happen to love the sounds of a Justin Bieber,

(02:32):
of a Taylor Swift, somebody who can take words on
a page and somehow someway create musical magic instead of
just typing a bunch of things into a computer and
it then spews all this stuff all over what Billboard
Magazine is calling the new number one song. I'm not
being a curmudgeon. What about you? Do You have your

(02:55):
moments where you just say, hey, whoa hold on? Can
we just talk? We don't have to agree, but we're
bringing something from different sides of the face. That's why
I think one of the reasons why families don't get
along with each other as we age into adulthood is
because the interpretations that we had of mom and dad

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and everybody else in the family when we were younger
is so much different than the interpretation of where we
stand at our present day and age. And that's when
things begin to go ooh, you just being one of
those curmudgeons. No, no, no, I just want to say,
can we just get along? Hi? MARYL. And that's stream thinking.