Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- There’s a difference between success that’s just an endless pursuit and success that actually enhances your life and that you allow yourself to appreciate and enjoy
from Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business by Rolf Potts
Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
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4 types of luck
Chance I is completely impersonal; you can’t influence it.
Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore
Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations.
Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.
- "The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
... See more Mel Robbins on TikTok
Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake.
from The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more
P.S and love and dating
- ❤️ Three things to love and learn:
🐣 Name something into existence. Not just a new word. A genuinely useful, helpful idea. I get that’s easier said than done. But nobody else is looking.
🙃 Do it playfully. ‘Repacking area’ would have been useful but dull. Recombobulation is joyful and 🔥
Don’t make a big fuss about it. Just quietly put it out there ... See more - Anxiety of incompetence : my skills are devalued and i have to learn new ones
- Anxiety of irrelevance : people might not relate to, value, or think about me
- Anxiety of uncertainty : I don’t know what the future holds and it feels fickle
from Agency in the Age of AI by Anu
- People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn because they’re bored! Or even because they enjoy spending time with the person who’s teaching them.
The list of reasons to “learn to cook” o... See morefrom An app can be a home-cooked meal by Robin Sloan
this can be extended to other parts of life — the motivation might not be the most obvious one
Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
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