What would your life look like if you actually had no agency around each problem you are currently facing. Describe the details of a zero agency life.
What would your life look like if you actually had no agency around each problem you are currently facing. Describe the details of a zero agency life.
The only way for life to not feel so hard is to just see how it goes
The opposite of this is believing things are supposed to be a certain way, and that it's somehow bad if things are not
You're this age, with this much money, at this stage, etc. Nothing is ever objectively… Show more
Roughly, agency is the capacity to act to satisfy some preference. This breaks down into three parts: 1. The capacity to act. 2. Possessing preferences over outcomes of those actions. 3. Being able to choose to use the former to satisfy the latter.
David R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
Agency is the new superpower
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Agency
Taking control of your own life, even if it means being on your own, reflects the mental model of agency: the capacity to make independent choices.
Taking control of your own life, even if it means being on your own, reflects the mental model of agency: the capacity to make independent choices.
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A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5... See more