Agency, which can be thought of as conscious actions, interv...

Agency, which can be thought of as conscious actions, intervenes in systems by disrupting or transforming patterns and relationships.

Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

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Agency exists as a way of life, a reiterative activity of opening or foreclosing different possibilities of materialization of matter, not as a relation of push and pull aimed at imposing force on a mass. We are entangled with, constituted and transformed by the very processes we aim to transform.

Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.

Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource Is Agency

there’s no character trait more essential to individual and societal progress than agency. Agency is the embodied conviction that you have the power to create meaningful change in your life and transform your vision into reality. It’s the engine that powers human progress.

Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource Is Agency

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