agency
The Imperfectionist: You have to do the living yourself
ckarchive.com“[B]uilding a meaningful life is much less about discovering the right set of practices or habits than it is about cultivating the willingness to step up moment after moment and just do more of the things that matter, for the projects and people and causes you care about most.”
People with high agency tend to be obsessed with finding simpler solutions, to the point where normal people think they are idiots.
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
He did the actual work and got rapid feedback from reality, learning precisely what he needed to solve his current problems. This was faster.
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
To be agentic, you have to really look at the problem and at the solution space and accept the responsibility of learning what is necessary to make the problem go away.