armaan's off the deep end

look at these.

guess how much i paid? GUESS?!?!

4 dollars. 4 FUCKING dollars for two incredible tacos. i love la.

gems of the week

list of things ive discovered and wanted to share

• this incredible jazz set from aussie-band Brekky Boy

• a very funny, very fascinating episode with Rick Rubin and Jamie Lyng, an independent book publisher

• how the Vatican City lost 100s of millions of dollars in shitty investments led by crooks

  • a great deep dive into the complicated relationship between religion and finance.

armaan’s thoughts

• i am a MAGNET for attracting girls w/ boyfriends

• if you’re waiting for permission to start, you’re two steps behind.

• nearly everything you do is better when you’re calm, cool, and collected

• music makes me shut up. and i love it

1 reflection

following the flow.

Soman Chainaini, the author of the series The School For Good and Evil, talks about “following the flow” when he starts a new creative project.

could be a film script. could be a novel. could be anything, but whatever it is, he only follows it when an internal compass points in the direction too.

for him, energy is a proxy for quality. the more energy he gets from doing something, the more he’ll do it. as soon as it starts to dwindle and he rubs up against friction, he takes a step back, breathes, and considers an alternative route to get the thing done.

interesting approach.

usually when our energy is sapped on a project, it’s because our ego is getting in the way. instead of it naturally evolving or becoming what it is destined to be, we try to force square pegs into round holes, making a video, song, book, or business idea fit a certain mold.

we impose our own order instead of letting the creative project create its own shape.

this not only disservices the art, but it disservices yourself.

when we force something, we unknowingly discipline the inner creative wisdom that lives in all of us. there’s some sort of spirit, some intangible item that enables us to pursue ideas and manifest them. but forcing that spirit to work overtime, to be something it’s not, to push and push and PUSH.

well that’s how we burn out.
that’s how we get upset.
that’s how we kick and scream and shout and shake our fist at the world.

so im not so sure if that’s the approach we should take with creativity.

perhaps we should follow the flow, let things breathe and take root on their own. rather than following a path, we can loosely follow a direction.

idk.maybe.

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