Opposite to in style perception, Bang Chan does sleep. He squeezes in three to 4 hours a day, someplace between daybreak and midday. He is aware of he may — no, ought to — be higher about resting. However his thoughts is at all times racing, leaping from one fledgling thought to the following, ideas knotting within his abdomen. Even when he has the time to chill out, his mind will not enable it. “I am interested by this, I am interested by that, I am interested by the long run, I am interested by what I did… I am pondering, pondering, pondering,” he says.
Regardless of his lack of sleep, he says he nonetheless feels wholesome and energized. He does not even depend on caffeine to get him via the day. “Water is doing the job!” he laughs.
In actuality, he is simply hyper-fixated on the duties at hand. He retains a day by day schedule on his Notes app and memorizes it firstly of every day, a behavior from his faculty days. “Free time is at all times the final precedence,” he says. “With a view to have my very own free time, I attempt to end off the whole lot I must do.” He pauses, then grins: “It is like a canine deal with [for] me.” He’ll, nevertheless, find time for his members, who he playfully refers to as “the children.” He is at all times there to supply them steerage in songwriting and composition; to rearrange a observe; to pay attention and provides recommendation; and to, often, roll up his sleeves and fix the kitchen curtains when nobody else will. He is dependable.
“The youngsters ask me, ‘Hyung, are you able to make this for me? Are you able to do that and this?'” he says. “And I am at all times like, ‘Yeah! Positive!’ When I’ve time, I be certain that to do it right away.”
Life as an idol is that of steady movement, going from one factor to the following. It is a blur of conferences, studios, fittings, apply rooms, ideas, recordings, and occasions. Bang Chan additionally carves out an hour each week to host a stay stream the place he listens to music and shares tales with followers from all over the world. These stay streams rating tens of millions of views, a quantity that, when actualized, makes him uncomfortable. As a frontrunner, Bang Chan takes on the accountability of being the intermediary between the corporate and the group — advocating when crucial. “He has a robust sense of accountability, and makes a number of sacrifices for the crew,” Changbin tells Teen Vogue. To Han, he is a “good older brother, good friend, particular person, and an ideal chief,” including, “After all, there are occasions he himself makes errors, too, however he at all times acknowledges them and tries to do higher.”
Bang Chan does not see his position inside the group as something particular. “The second that you just settle for that you are a good chief, it signifies that you are not chief,” he causes. He sees it as extra of a persona quirk. “I at all times like doing stuff for different individuals,” he explains. “I’ve discovered to simply accept that I’m somebody who thinks about others earlier than myself.”