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Go Ahead, Cross the Streams · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: There's a fascinating stream in the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie that has an interesting application for writers.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: The three main Ghostbusters played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis are trying to capture a ghost that's flying around a hotel ballroom.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Their proton packs emit a powerful stream of energy that trap the ghost and pull it into a small box that traps its supernatural energy.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: However, Egon Spingler, played by Ramus, warns them not to cross the streams or it will have dire consequences.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Ironically, crossing these streams of energy is the very thing that allows them to defeat the villain Gozer as well as the stay-puffed marshmallow man later on in the movie.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: When it comes to curiosity, most people don't cross the streams.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: They keep their reservoirs of knowledge separate from each other.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: History, religion, arts, psychology, politics, technology, they keep all those areas of knowledge in their nice little compartments.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: But the best creative ideas come from blending these areas, from the cross-pollination of interesting ideas.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: The only way to create new ideas is to cross your streams of knowledge and experience.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is why as a writer, you have to read in different genres and categories, and you have to talk to people.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: You have to meet people who are different than you.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: You take ideas from one realm of knowledge and you blend them with ideas from another realm of knowledge.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can't produce new ideas from the same base of knowledge and experience.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: You have to cross pollinate.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: You have to cross the streams if you want to reach higher levels of creativity in your life.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Here's your daily question What are two areas of knowledge you can cross pollinate in your writing today?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.