Agency
Ideas around agency, aka the sense of control that you feel in your life + your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior
unoptimal and
Agency
You gotta be understanding who you are and where you're at in life
right now. You absolutely have to be figuring out how you can
increase your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behaviors
as well as your faith in your ability to handle a wide range of
tasks and situations.
Agencymaxxing happens through
doing things. You
can think all you want and... See more
right now. You absolutely have to be figuring out how you can
increase your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behaviors
as well as your faith in your ability to handle a wide range of
tasks and situations.
Agencymaxxing happens through
doing things. You
can think all you want and... See more
You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
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
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination... See more
Jordan Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Learned helplessness, the failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events, was discovered half a century ago. Seligman and Maier (1967) theorized that animals learned that outcomes were independent of their responses—that nothing they did mattered – and that this learning undermined trying to escape. The mechanism of learned... See more
Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
