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Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic - EA Forum
The optimal policy is open to you at all times - you merely need to ask “What should I be doing right now” or
“What would a person with 10x my agency be doing right now” or
“What would the ideal version of me be doing right now” or
“If the person I am met the person I could be, what would that person be doing right now”
I think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
- Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
- Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the
Ben Kuhn • Impact, agency, and taste
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
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