Agency
Everything in our world is there because someone decided it needed to exist. We all have things we know need to exist. What stops us from making them exist?
Agency
The opposite to reflexive agency is prompted agency - agency which only becomes available given some prompt to action. “That does seem like a problem. Have you tried solving it?” is my only-half-joking prompt I use with people: It’s something that highlights the failure of agency, in a way that makes people aware that action is an option available
... See moreDavid R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
The objective severity of our histories may be of little importance when compared to the subjective hold they appear to have on us.
To paraphrase physician and author Gabor Maté, we are not what happened to us but what happened inside of us as a result of what happened to us. https://t.co/RhbUWBtYCv
No choice but to do it, I guess
@visakanv Advanced topics in any domain are alluring for beginners as means to prevent action
Shawn Nirappiltwitter.comI think about this a lot. Maybe I shouldn't ha
It's easier to give/apply advice to a thing that exists
Most people understand that a forest "doesn't exist" in the sense that humans made up that word (the trees exist in a concrete way that the "forest" does not. Same with a "lake" vs water etc)
It just occurred to me that "a person" is more like a forest than a tree
Defendertwitter.comMeta on self and agency
In my experience, the way you end up doing good in the world has very little to do with how good your initial plan was.