Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- 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?
the real success goes to those who obsess
- 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
- Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
from 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
Poet Marianne Moore offers a simple life strategy: "I've made it a principle not to be over-influenced by minor disappointments."
- "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 ... See morefrom 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 :”)
Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be
From ‘The Dip’ by Seth Godin
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