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
First, be clear about your intentions. For myself, I want to maximize learning and improving myself, and minimize “zombie entertainment”. This is when we’re caught in a pattern of consuming from a firehose feed for entertainment, without intentionality. It’s a fake flow state: time passes quickly and the world fades away, but there’s no cognitive... See more
Andrew Conner • Making the Internet Work for You: YouTube
Self Discipline for Screwups
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Have you seen those tweets saying things like “there are people with half your skills and intelligence living out your dreams, just because they put themselves out there and didn’t overthink it”? It’s definitely true. When I observe my own experience and analyse why things worked out, I can tell you that it wasn’t because of any business skills or... See more
Erifili Gounari • literally just do things
On the one end, you have fully reflexive agency in which you act spontaneously to satisfy your preferences, on the other end you have total obedience to some authority who tells you how to be happy, and in the middle is prompted agency.
David R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
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."
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if i'd had more agency when I was younger,
I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from
...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea
I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from
...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea