Agalia Tan

Find invigoration trips. Trips that give you a dose of inspiration. You feel like a new person. Could be your favorite coffeeshop to 24h in a cabin in the woods. Know you invigoration places and visit often.

We cannot keep buying the fallacy that everything meaningful should feel effortless, including the relationships that make life worth living.

The work doesn't vanish when you find your passion.

The work, hopefully, becomes workable.

We've made "work" synonymous with suffering, when it should be synonymous with building. Tending a garden requires... See more

. If we can do that - if we can actually create the space, take the time, and exercise the discipline to properly step into an idea - I’d contend that the chances of us actually being able to then contribute to the development and improvement of it will be vastly improved.

TL;DR: Just sit with it for a while.

Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher on how to make something great:

"Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."

In the first quarter of 2021 alone, the technology company Apple made more money than the annual GDP of 135 countries; its market valuation was higher than the GDP of Italy, Brazil, Canada, South Korea and Russia.