Action / Agency
All about action, agency, how to act in the world and be agentic, how to turn from thought to action, from consumption to creation. how to be the creator of your own life and your own reality
Action / Agency
The attachment trap is too attached to past assumptions to see new high agency options. You become the man with a hammer who can only see a nail.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Write your thoughts down. Draw the problem. Use a whiteboard. Create a spreadsheet. Talk out loud to a smart person. Go for a walk or run with a specific question.
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague mud from your thinking.
Each time you transform your thoughts out of your head,... See more
The act of transforming out of your head to another medium acts like a filtration system, removing the vague mud from your thinking.
Each time you transform your thoughts out of your head,... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
How to start acting faster — define the problem more clearly by transferring it onto a medium, don’t stay in your own head
To get different results, you will have to do things differently and do different things.
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Action bias. Football goalkeepers will jump to the left or right when facing penalties, even though statistically they'd be better off just staying in the middle. Action bias is the tendency to choose action over inaction, even where there's no indication that taking action will help. We tend to (falsely) equate activity with productivity & keeping... See more
Alternative view on action/high agency. More action doesn’t necessarily mean more/better/faster results
Go to the funerals of the people you care about and the normal rational behaviour is never mentioned. It’s filled with weird and hilarious stories of the individual — the times they broke out of the median distribution of human behaviour and displayed their uniqueness.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
about “normal” people and “normal” behavior
Normal behaviour costs nothing in the short term but disappears into the memory abyss. Unconventional weird behaviour costs a price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets in the future.
If you pay the bill for everyone at the table - the short-term reaction is shock and confusion. In the long term, it’s everyone’s favourite... See more
If you pay the bill for everyone at the table - the short-term reaction is shock and confusion. In the long term, it’s everyone’s favourite... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
If your problem doesn’t defy the laws of physics, it’s not an unsolvable problem — regardless of what other people say.