Agency
Ideas around agency, aka the sense of control that you feel in your life + your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior
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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 moreI think often what’s going on with prompted agency is that it gives you permission to act, and many people aren’t good at acting without permission.

tl;dr: exercising your agency is good for morale, not exercising it is bad.
via - alexey guzey