Agalia Tan

slight pivots compounded over time alter the course of your life quite dramatically

Searching for their life’s work was a multi-turn endeavor1. Every turn was partly right and partly wrong. Rightness revealed itself gently over time, and it brought them closer to finding a life that fit them.

This is how you get intellectually unstuck. We put so much pressure on ourselves to get things right on first attempt. What we seek is some wild step change that plunges us into clarity. Instead, we should embrace the little pivots that get us closer. It might be a series of smaller changes over a long period of time that feel less than radical.... See more