Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
Getting older is a relentless process of paring down. Getting older is an exercise in letting go. Let go of anger: “I’m at the age now where you just—you’ll die.” Let go of fitting in, of going up to Rao’s with important people. Let go of other people’s opinions: “That doesn’t mean you don’t take advice and you don’t discuss and argue, but at a... See more
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Start small and learn fast. Your first move doesn't need to be perfect; it just needs to teach you something. Focus more on the next small step that moves you closer to the goal.
Motion creates momentum, and momentum reveals opportunities that standing still never could.
Motion creates momentum, and momentum reveals opportunities that standing still never could.
Brain Food: Greats Don't Wait
I wish we were taught to manage our energy instead of managing just our time.
• Sleep
• Exercise
• Caffeine
• Hydration
• Sunlight
• Diet
...all impact productivity & creativity a lot more than blocking time in your... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunfftwitter.comWe’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized.
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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.
Even David Graeber, the north star of political intellectuals for so many of my peers, jumped into the fray. Expanded from a viral essay, his 2018 book Bullshit Jobs collects interviews with hundreds of people who describe what they do as pointless. From these conversations, Graeber realized that the few jobs today that are tangibly useful—say,... See more
Martin Dolan • Clocked Out
The Hunt for Grey Swans—Top 15 Methods & Frameworks—#1 CIPHER
Grey Swan Guildgreyswanguild.medium.com
There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.