Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See more
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See more
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 behaviour punished at school that rewards you later in life: Asking "Why am I working on this?"
3. The busy tra... See more
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
open.spotify.comThe 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 a... See more
Finding Your Unique Voice | Elizabeth Gilbert, Morgan Harper Nichols & Lisa Congdon
I used to think that the way towards more genuine conversation was advancing the schedule of intimacy instantly by plunging into difficult, weird, or controversial topics, usually by asking some intense question, like, “what are you most afraid of.” I think lots of aspiring conversationalists—especially men—do this when they’re new to intentionally
... See moreThe capacity to get up and walk away from the work is the same capacity that permits you to make meaningful progress in the work, when the time for that arrives.
The Imperfectionist: The unproductivity challenge
Check out Chat with Jayasāra: Love and Memory, from the Waking Up app:
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Chasing peak experiences is chasing a false summit. They just turn to memories and delude you into striving and away from the present
#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of
open.spotify.comThe activity trap: The wrong things or very little have actually got done even tho things have been checked off
Deep Okayness is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself. It’s the closure of the self as an attack surface. It’s the intuitive understanding that I am merely one of the apertures through which the universe expresse... See more