Be Agentic, Stupid

In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.

How To Spot High Agency People

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1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
   
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2. ‍ Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill wi

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agency grows through practice, not theory. Cultivating individual agency means starting things before they feel ready. It means having a bias toward action.