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
A popular narrative now casts all living entities as ‘machines’ built by genes, as Richard Dawkins called them. For Mayr, biology was unique among the sciences precisely because its objects of study possessed a program that encoded apparent purpose, design and agency into what they do. On this view, agency doesn’t actually manifest in the moment of... See more
Philip Ball • Life With Purpose
Stephen Cave formalized “Freedom Quotient” as an additional dimension to evaluate human competencies beyond IQs (intelligent quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient). Cave defined FQ as a measure of natural free will, and he argues that smoothing out inequalities in FQ – and to raise the FQ of everyone – should be a goal of schools and of social
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When you're agencymaxxing, others become more interested in helping
you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a
multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if
they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping
themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference
and they don't like... See more
you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a
multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if
they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping
themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference
and they don't like... See more
You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
How to spot high agency people:
1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when… Show more
