Agency, as I see it, is an amalgamation of two skills, or mental dispositions: autonomy and efficacy.

1. Agency requires the capacity to formulate autonomous goals in life—the capacity to dig inside and figure out what wants to happen through you, no matter how strange or wrong it seems to others. In other words, it requires autonomy (which was what I

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TL;DR: - agency is wanting things so bad you could die - focus on wanting more things and being more of a big baby when you don't get your way - unlike intelligence, it is a muscle you can practice https://t.co/7QWpGOSxyS