Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
from strat*scraps_v152
- 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
- Good character is not about maximizing virtues but moderating them: to be sensitive without being fragile, confident without being cocky, steadfast without being stubborn, driven without being reckless, focused without being obsessed.
from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts (Spring 2023) by Gurwinder
A life full of distractions is, at an individual level, diminished. When you are unable to pay sustained attention, you can't achieve the things you want to achieve
— Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on making the most of your opportunities:
"This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he's right:
If you're auditioning for something that you know you're never going to get—or maybe you read the script and didn't even like it, but you still have to go—if you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has ... See morefrom 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
- “The seat in front of you will likely recline. Prepare accordingly”
from STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three
- It doesn’t last forever, but that’s really not the point.
Hold on tightly, but let go lightly. Nearly everything can be replaced. And if it can’t be replaced, celebrate its existence instead of fretting over its loss.
- 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