Action / Agency

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

Different academic disciplines have different takes on the word “agency”:

• Philosophy sees agency as the capacity to act intentionally and rationally to bring about change in the world.


• Psychology views agency as a person’s capacity to exert control over their environment and experience a sense of ownership over their actions.


• Sociology understands

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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.

The one big thing everyone in that high agency room has in common: They are happening to life. They don’t view the future as a static entity. They view it as something to be shaped by human action.

"When you're told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind? How to get around... See more

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy; the chance to draw back; always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one commits oneself, Providence moves all. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never

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