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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Agency
The lowest level of choice is not making a conscious choice at all, which happens when you don’t notice that you even could make a choice. In this case there is effectively no space between stimulus and response, so you just act out your habitual behavior unconsciously. If you ever find yourself skimming the news or looking in the fridge without... See more
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
agency, which I think of as something like “manifest determination to make things happen.”
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
Do what you can't
tommydixon.ca
FOMO is good. Being plugged in is good. There is valuable info at all levels from twitter gossip to philosophy books. You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding - by Venkatesh Rao Against Waldenponding
just be your self & do your own thing
discover & express your unique self
forge your own path
make your own rules
Stuart Evans and • 24 cards
What idea changed how you view the world?
Here's mine: High Agency.
The high agency library: (19 best examples I've found in 4 years) https://t.co/IOttWTOC5u
“the high agency library” - great examples of agency