reminders to trust the process
Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be
Agalia Tan added 5mo ago
Poet Marianne Moore offers a simple life strategy: "I've made it a principle not to be over-influenced by minor disappointments."
Agalia Tan added 6mo ago
- Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol
Agalia Tan added 2mo ago
All success is a lagging indicator. When a day’s writing goes well, it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking… Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with con
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- “The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”
from 3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
Agalia Tan added 5mo ago
- The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable ingr... See more
from Epiphanies Come From Waiting
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Agalia Tan added 2mo ago
Successful people don’t just ride out the Dip. They don’t just buckle down and survive it. No, they lean into the Dip. They push harder, changing the rules as they go. Just because you know you’re in the Dip doesn’t mean you have to live happily with it. Dips don’t last quite as long when you whittle at them
— The DipAgalia Tan added 3mo ago
