How to Be More Agentic
Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to you. Remarkable people typically go off-script early, usually in more than one way. Carnegie becoming a telegraph message boy is one opportunity; asking how to operate the telegraph is another. He was
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
Agency, as I see it, is an amalgamation of two skills, or mental dispositions: autonomy and efficacy.
- 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
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
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 wi
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
exposure to risk. MISTAKES ARE INFORMATION Mine your “failures” for valuable data about what works and what doesn’t. As long as you learn from the process, it’s not a mistake. DIVE INTO UNCERTAINTY Don’t be afraid to live in the shade of big questions. Uncertainty and ambiguity are a necessary part of risk-taking and the creative process. ACCEPT YO
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