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The Most Precious Resource is Agency
Research shows a steady fall in young people’s sense that they have control over their own lives.7
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we can’t do very much to stop the world’s problems, it’s unsurprising that they’d be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in “Failure to Cop
... See moreNadia Asparouhova • Cultivating Agency
The world until recently was overflowing with onramps of opportunity, even for children, and we seem to do poorly at producing new ones. Modern complexity may have erased some avenues for agency (no boy can meaningfully learn the telegraph), but I suspect how we have oriented the world, not technology, is the main problem.
Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource is Agency
