When You Can't See the Path 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Damon Brown
June 11, 2025

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Hi reader,

If you watch very carefully

No matter how different we are

You notice that all our lives are very much like nature

There is a season that is naturally dry and barren, like my home, Vegas

There is a season that is wet and fertile, like the Pacific Northwest

And there is the vast in-between

This is where we spend most of our career and our lives

Moments that don’t feel completely defined

This is where we should become dependent on reading the room

Or, better yet, the flow 🌊

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I’ve always felt drawn to water

Yes, I was born right off of the Atlantic City boardwalk

But I think it’s because of the wisdom it holds

The secrets

It somehow can expand and contract in any situation

It finds the lowest level to build and rise

It exits any escape hatch

No matter how small 💦

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When we feel confused, speechless, stuck

It is easy to become hard

Rigid

Because we mistake our stubbornness for conviction

And our reaction for progress

But water becomes lighter than a feather

Or flows into the most accessible crevice

Or stays steadfast in the most solid form

All depending on the environment

The season.

And since there is literally one day of absolute Summer

And one day of absolute Winter

Then most of our career and our lives is spent in the in-between

We would be wiser to adjust to the seasons

Rather than to be a stubborn block of ice in the desert sun 🧊

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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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