Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
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If our connections are the biggest indicator of well being, why don’t we treat cultivating them like eating healthily. Just like consuming easy content is empty calories, taking part in easy conversations is the same. The way to have healthier relationships is to have more nourishing conversations
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
sashachapin.substack.com • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone
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.
What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head clean
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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
Embracing Healthy Ambition | Q&A With Gena Gorlin | #269
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Marketing is about making soulful bets. If you’re not purchasing cosmic lottery tickets somewhere you’ll never rise above the noise.
But when Rosa reaches for the perfect adjective to describe this feeling of both acting on the world and being acted on by it, engaging with it boldly yet never knowing how it will respond–and the feelings of warmth and fulfillment that result–the term he chooses is anschmiegsamen. What anschmiegsamen means in English–and this is the word that appe
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Community rock monster on one of my favorite hikes. Every time I go, this guy looks a lil different 🥲