Brandon Dang
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Brandon Dang
The term bedrotting screams the quiet part aloud: when the ability to work is cherished above all else, rest has to be framed as abject.
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting - by Anne Helen Petersen Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
I then entered the classic California pipeline: when worldly pleasures fail you, attempt to locate the happiness without conditions. I became a self-therapy and meditation nerd, and, as a result, I achieved a much greater level of embodiment. I realized that I’d been stuck in my head for my whole life — that this is not a figure of speech, but a... See more
My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person
What sentence gives you goosebumps?
Here's mine: "You waste years by not being able to waste hours."
13 thoughts on this trap:
1. A behaviour rewarded at school that punishes you later in life: Doing the work without asking why.
2. A... See more
Becoming vs Being (or is it both?)
Scarcity is, we don’t have what we need, and so there’s a way of thinking that’s like, in that moment in time, you felt a need and you kind of threw a container at it.
Brené with Priya Parker: A Meeting Makeover
Meetings are often born out of desperation, but they arent re-examined or re-experimented because it can be messy and requires proactivity/time
So we sit in indecision. We wait for certainty before we commit. But certainty doesn’t come from thinking about a project. It comes from being inside a project.
My friend, the project is the way.
My friend, the project is the way.
The Project Is the Way
The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that... See more