Agalia Tan

@agaaalia

Senior Strategist at We Are Social

RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore

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"Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.

The open mic night at a nearly empty bar.

The early blog posts that get ignored.

The dance recital on a little stage.

Early attempts are easy to dismiss because they don't seem to amount to much. But you have to do the low stakes stuff to prepare for the

from 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts

Remember how sabrina carpenter was preparing for her moment :”)

“The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”

from 3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing

Successful people don’t just ride out the Dip. They don’t just buckle down and survive it. No, they lean into the Dip. They push harder, changing the rules as they go. Just because you know you’re in the Dip doesn’t mean you have to live happily with it. Dips don’t last quite as long when you whittle at them

— The Dip

a lot of times ideas and projects are formed out of a more ambient kind of thinking and talking and doing. Research is not always this thing of sitting down and concentratedly looking through archives or something.

from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial

Poet Marianne Moore offers a simple life strategy: "I've made it a principle not to be over-influenced by minor disappointments."

Everything is temporary. When a mood is so overwhelming we tend to mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it

The irony of organizing your life around mistake-avoidance is that, rather than making you feel calmer, it keeps you in an anxious state, ratcheting up the stakes of your life until you’re moving through it like you would a decision tree, each notable occurrence redirecting you toward a different destination. We’re meant to be. Wait no, we’re doome... See more

from #181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?

From ‘The Dip’ by Seth Godin

All success is a lagging indicator. When a day’s writing goes well, it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking… Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with con