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.
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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Agency is the characteristic that is absent from the world of nonliving things,
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
The psychologist Bessel van der Kolk defines agency as “the feeling of being in charge of your life: knowing where you stand, knowing that you have a say in what happens to you, knowing that you have some ability to shape your circumstance.” People who exhibit agency have been shown to be happier and healthier, and have a higher quality of life.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
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
I was realizing how many personal and interpersonal issues ultimately traced back to feeling like one has little to no agency. Everything from confidence to motivation can be traced back to agency, at least to some extent.
sundus • agency: it's only human
The meaning of life is something like: To trade the constraints imposed upon you by others, for constraints you impose upon yourself. If you fail to design your own choice architecture, one will be assigned to you.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Ask yourself “what would the version of you with 100% agency in this situation do?”… and then realize that that is you. You always have 100% agency.