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High Agency In 30 Minutes
When Nadal warmed up, it was sheer aggression. He sprinted up and down like a man possessed with his shirt dripping in sweat.
When Djokovic warmed up, it was pure emotionless calibration. He was measured and scientific with every shot.
When Federer warmed up, you could hear him giggling before he arrived. He was doing trick shots, caressing the ball... See more
When Djokovic warmed up, it was pure emotionless calibration. He was measured and scientific with every shot.
When Federer warmed up, you could hear him giggling before he arrived. He was doing trick shots, caressing the ball... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
If it doesn't defy the laws of physics - you can't give fixed odds on whether a human will solve the problem because of human agency.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
There's no unsolvable problem. If it doesn’t defy the laws of physics, it’s only up to us as humans to decide to find a solution. The probability of solving a problem is increased by us taking the path of high agency.
Normal behaviour costs nothing in the short term but disappears into the memory abyss. Unconventional weird behaviour costs a price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets in the future.
If you pay the bill for everyone at the table - the short-term reaction is shock and confusion. In the long term, it’s everyone’s favourite... See more
If you pay the bill for everyone at the table - the short-term reaction is shock and confusion. In the long term, it’s everyone’s favourite... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
How To Spot High Agency People
- 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.
- 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
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
High agency people go against the social tide, made up rules aren’t a barrier to take interest in something and they are truly authentic human beings.
Vague Trap Escape Route: Define the problem in simple words out of your head
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague... See more
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague mud from your thinking.
Each time you transform your thoughts out of your head,... See more
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague mud from your thinking.
Each time you transform your thoughts out of your head,... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
How to start acting faster — define the problem more clearly by transferring it onto a medium, don’t stay in your own head
This question from Nick throws a first principles grenade into your mind. It forces you to start the problem again from a fresh perspective free of past assumptions. You often realise the real problem wasn’t the problem itself. It was the assumptions you were viewing it through.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
One tool to make this easier is to reframe decisions as experiments . You’re no longer a perfectionist frozen on stage with everyone watching your every move, you’re a curious scientist in a lab trying to test a hypothesis. E.g. “ I’m 60% certain that moving to New York is better than 40% of staying in Doncaster...Ok. It’s time to Blitzkrieg. ”... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
“Reframe decisions as experiments“ these experiments give us practical data and there’s confidence to be found when applying this principle.
"When you're told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind? How to get around whoever it is that's just told you that you can't do something" - Eric Weinstein on high agency.