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The Daily Mess Stuck On Personal Growth Plus Why Aren't We Sleeping At Night · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Hey, what's going on? It's me, that question guy,
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  Speaker 1: the dude that's always asking questions because it's so much
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  Speaker 1: fun to do the research. For instance, why are we
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  Speaker 1: endlessly trying to be more than what we are? Why?
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  Speaker 1: And sleepless nights aren't just an American thing. It's global. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing to ourselves here? My name is Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf. I stand on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate.
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  Speaker 1: I call it the daily mess because it's a chronological
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  Speaker 1: walkthrough in everyday world. It is my daily writing. As
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  Speaker 1: a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend
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  Speaker 1: to throw things to the side because we are convinced
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to deal with it later on. Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 1: Not if you don't write it down. Write it down
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  Speaker 1: and come back to it when you have the time.
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  Speaker 1: When a subject arrives inside of me, it is time
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  Speaker 1: to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but
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  Speaker 1: by doing the research, the picture is always going to
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  Speaker 1: become clearer. This is the daily mess. Why are we
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  Speaker 1: always trying to be more than what we truly are? Now,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't going to be a shocker. We have been
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  Speaker 1: doing this pretty much all of our life because it's
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  Speaker 1: that feeling of being less than what we think we are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it all started when we were itty-bitty kids
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  Speaker 1: and we fought to compare, to be richer, smarter, thinner, stronger,
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  Speaker 1: and more successful. Plus, let's not forget about how humans
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  Speaker 1: are re-geared and wired to do nothing but grow. The
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  Speaker 1: problems come when growth turns into a rejection of the
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  Speaker 1: person we already think we are. Oh, it's not hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us spend years trying to become somebody that
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  Speaker 1: we are not, only to realize that person that we
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  Speaker 1: are not is very difficult to escape from. It's a
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  Speaker 1: personality that wants to understand what happened here. While facing
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  Speaker 1: such an uphill walk, do people get burned out and
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  Speaker 1: lose their dreams? Now, Here's the thing. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: know in your heart that burnout has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with dreams coming to an end. You just got to
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  Speaker 1: know that dreams that you had at 15, 25 or
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  Speaker 1: even 45 may not be the dream that you're holding
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  Speaker 1: on to today. But don't accuse yourself of abandonment. There
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  Speaker 1: is a good chance that you've just outgrown it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: why are we always doing this to ourselves? Why do
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  Speaker 1: we want to be more than what we are? Well,
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  Speaker 1: this might scare the hell out of you. If nobody
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  Speaker 1: is judging you, nobody is giving you applause, if nobody
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  Speaker 1: is expecting anything from you, then what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you chasing the dream? The answer, it could
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  Speaker 1: come to you in the way of saying, hey, dude,
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  Speaker 1: that dream is over. God, oh. Hey, coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: sleepless nights are totally a global thing. What? Really? Yeah. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to The Daily Mess. Sleepless nights. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. It's not just an American thing. It is global.
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  Speaker 1: And it's something that we are doing to ourselves. Yeah. But, but, but,
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  Speaker 1: only partly. Mental health care professionals want us to know
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  Speaker 1: that this present day lifestyle that we are living is
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  Speaker 1: not making it easier to sleep. It's our brain that
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  Speaker 1: keeps telling us to stay awake. Something might happen. Stay awake. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's why we're laying around awake all night. Artificial light
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  Speaker 1: and computer screens. Oh, my God. constant stimulation, stress and uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: irregular schedules, and the unfinished conversations that we had with
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  Speaker 1: people maybe at work or someone in the family. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's a fact for you that caught me totally off guard.
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  Speaker 1: Humans have never been perfect sleepers. What? Long before smartphones,
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  Speaker 1: people still had insomnia. Get this. There was once a
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  Speaker 1: time when waking up late at night was completely normal.
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping eight hours a night is a modern day suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Research shows that it's not our body failing. It's the
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  Speaker 1: mind seeking quiet. I love it when a person suggests,
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  Speaker 1: can you just give my mind some time? To rest,
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  Speaker 1: I'll respect you for that. Slowly, we can learn how
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  Speaker 1: to breathe better, to listen clearer. A blast of your
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  Speaker 1: past can hit you, but it's not going to knock
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  Speaker 1: you down. And then if you want to, you can
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  Speaker 1: hit repeat, but why? The thing to do is to
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  Speaker 1: find your area of just being yourself. quiet it is
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  Speaker 1: time to empty your brain it's really all about letting
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts become unimportant because nothing needs to be figured
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  Speaker 1: out during those moments at night it is a tough
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  Speaker 1: journey to follow but when you do wake up in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night don't let go of meditation
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  Speaker 1: don't let go of prayer Trust in both. Believe in
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of there being peace. But you've got to
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  Speaker 1: do exactly what it said at the end. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to convince yourself that nothing is important,
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  Speaker 1: especially at night. I'm Arrow, and that's The Daily Mess.