Agency

Ideas around agency, aka the sense of control that you feel in your life + your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior

unoptimal and

Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.

Emmett Shear • Tweet

rob hardy

if i'd had more agency when I was younger,

I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from

...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea