Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j
... See morefrom Two Kinds of Introspection - By Henrik Karlsson by Henrik Karlsson
- There is no such thing as closeness without friction.
from The Friendship Theory of Everything
- 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
- “The seat in front of you will likely recline. Prepare accordingly”
from STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
― Henry David Thoreaufrom 30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)
- Seriousness precludes sincerity.
For the most part, you’d be better served by being sincere rather than serious.from Be Sincere—Not Serious
- At T-minus seven minutes to the meeting, I rushed my laptop up a flight of stairs to the desk of a secretary and huffed out a desperate plea: Please print this for me, seven copies. She looked up at what surely was a normal speed, but which I perceived as the pace of a snail emerging from a shell, and said,
“Just give me a second, dear. ” She smiled.
... See morefrom I Felt Important
it’s always a matter of perspective, and unless you’re saving lives, nothing is that urgent
- Fear is a yield, not a stop sign. It doesn’t always mean not to proceed. Sometimes it just means you care.
- The thing that’s vexing you: is it a situation or a problem?
Problems have solutions. If we care enough, we can find a way to solve a problem, but it might cost more money, require more effort or involve more risk than we’d prefer. If we’re ready to ease some of the constraints, that problem might go away.
Situations don’t have solutions. That’s why ... See morefrom Inverting the vex