Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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what "living life to the fullest" looks like
I’ve changed my mind about what a successful person looks like. My v1 framework for a successful person focused on external achievements. Is this person leading a company? Are they operating at the top of their field? Are they leading movements and creating change? Those were the questions that decided whether someone was a success or not. It created a picture of someone well-educated, well-read, and well-traveled, with an aspirational lifestyle.
Though this is a common view of success, I’ve come to appreciate how myopic it is. Today, success looks very different to me. For my v2 definition of success, I think about things like: Do you have a genuine sense of self and purpose? Do you have an openness to evolve? Can you be at peace alone in a quiet room? It’s a broader definition but also a higher bar. I don’t want to judge, but I think it can be tougher to be at peace with yourself than to be hard-charging and get a promotion.
🌀 People are quietly quitting Instagram (👋 fellow lurkers)
🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
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🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
It’s not anti-digit... See more
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Prediction: the furious arrival of AI will create a renewed hunger for raw, unpolished, humanity. Invest in documenting your failures. Fact: we live in a time where if you create consistently about something you love or obsess over; it may be a year, or five, but eventually, you'll find a level of success that'll likely make you feel uncomfortable. This is good. And some of the best art you'll ever create will be from your spectacular failures. For example, my most popular podcast episode--What is Trauma--was the result of me realizing and admitting that I had been wrong about 'how to heal the psyche' for the previous 10 years. I thought you could heal through language alone; lol, oh dear little younger Erick! Getting something 'wrong' is literally what stimulates our nervous system to pay attention and attempt to learn something new. Document your process like you're a field biologist studying a wild animal, and share your field notes with us. Despite how sure people pretend to be, we're all trying to figure out just what the duck we are and what the duck we're all doing. Like...are we all contributing to the creation of a new god-like life-form everyday without realizing it because we check our phones 230 times a day, and our phone tracks every tap, pause, eye movement, and sound we make, and all of that will be data for the emerging godlike intelligence? Are we training it right now? Anyways, idk, but, share your notes.
instagram.com"The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. Spend more time thinking about the inputs."
3-2-1: On the power of inputs, how to build a creative career, and the one habit that matters most
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
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