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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So you want to become an Agentic Sage?

Scott Britton blog.scottbritton.me

Stuart Evans

agency: it's only human

sundus sundusalfe.substack.com

Stuart Evans

Being Too Ambitious Is a Clever Form of Self-Sabotage

Maalvika maalvika.substack.com

Stuart Evans

Roughly, agency is the capacity to act to satisfy some preference. This breaks down into three parts: 1. The capacity to act. 2. Possessing preferences over outcomes of those actions. 3. Being able to choose to use the former to satisfy the latter.

David R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency

Stuart Evans

Belief → Will → Action → Habit → Character → Destiny "Life begins when you realize that you are not just who you are, you are also who you can become. You are a being who is also becoming. Life begins when you truly realize that you are free to act and become who you want to be."

phoebe

“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.”
― James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

The mismatch between past and present doesn’t seem trivial to me — if the “you” of today can so blithely disregard the “you” of yesterday, then it follows that the “you” I’m talking to now might very well not be the one who shows up for our date tomorrow. There’s a kind of unpredictable change that seems to lie outside of the virtues of growth and... See more

Duncan Sabien • The Levers of the Soul

Stuart Evans

Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion. Keep showing up.

Brad Stulberg twitter.com

Supritha S