Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
The universe is looking for collaborators, baby. It’s a universe that is becoming and it needs help. And it wants to work with you. It wants to be made. And a creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not like twice or three times or four times, but daily. Systematically. It becomes your habit... See more
Finding Your Unique Voice | Elizabeth Gilbert, Morgan Harper Nichols & Lisa Congdon
Driven by ultra-capitalistic incentives, the incessant pursuit of productivity and perfection combined with external, never-ending stimuli results in burnout and anxiety, the symptoms of an overloaded nervous system.
More Human Possible
We aren’t necessarily being forced to work harder, but the incentives are dangled out in front of us, so we convince ourselves it will be “worth it” (i.e. working late nights bc thats what gets recognized at the yearly review)
Dane Reynolds is a surfer who made a company just to fund making surf videos of him and his friends. He cares more about storytelling and creating culture around his local surf scene than scaling a business and it shows
Local photographer puts a disposable at his fav coffee shop, develops them and makes a lil booklet each month
In practice, this felt like releasing tension. A healthy inner space was created between me and the dirty kid in my mind. That person wasn’t identical to me, I was not my history. Simultaneously, though, I didn’t need to reject that person, either. This act of acceptance triggered a whole-body relaxation. It was like opening up a lens: unclenching... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
What engaging in IFS feels like
We receive all sorts of voices (body, mind, senses), but intuition is the discerning force that can hear all of them and decide how to move forward.
We can hear a voice without obeying it, but when it feels like its not heard, it will force its way out in all sorts of sideways thoughts and feelings.
Marketing is about making soulful bets. If you’re not purchasing cosmic lottery tickets somewhere you’ll never rise above the noise.