Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- It doesn’t last forever, but that’s really not the point.
Stop Ignoring All the Mundane Miracles in Your Life
Phones, with their ability to transport you to other worlds, want to convince you that the one you’re stuck in doesn’t have anything worth paying attention to. But through my journaling, I realized something: We’re shoulder to shoulder with many universes; countless lives, hopes, dreams and fears as complicated as our own, all clustered in the same crowded shops, train cars and sidewalks. Why ignore all that?
- The highest form of leverage is reputation.
from Brain Food: Necessary Virtues
- Find invigoration trips. Trips that give you a dose of inspiration. You feel like a new person. Could be your favorite coffeeshop to 24h in a cabin in the woods. Know you invigoration places and visit often.
from 20 years of juicy startup & life knowledge in 1159 words
- “The seat in front of you will likely recline. Prepare accordingly”
from STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three
- Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more
from What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance?
- If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
from Feed Updates
- Take a chance! Trust someone! Fall in love! Feel something! Build something meaningful and scary and try your best not to blow it up
from Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS by freyaindia.co.uk
- Thinly veiled insults (“Really?”/“That’s weird”/“…interesting”) are often compliments delivered by people who are at odds with themselves. Take them in stride.