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
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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Agency is a value, not a virtue . As noted in “The Most Boring Value” entry about discipline, virtue is a value that is always good:
I understand virtue as a value that is always good. Being disciplined is not always good; it can be foolish, something the self-help gurus fail to tell you. Foolish discipline is overworking until burnout, “crushing”... See more
Peter N Limberg • Be Agentic, Stupid
you can be high agency without being highly ambitious. That might describe somebody who is highly agentic in shaping the kind of personal, emotional, or spiritual life they want, but who is not especially motivated to succeed financially or professionally.
Can You Just Do Things?—Asterisk
"Can we really just do things?"
>Yes, we can!
"Can you teach me how? Is there a school?"
>Yes, we are making it happen! TPOT Agency School is happening next year!
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Christopher Smederx.comthread
In short, if one presents high agency as the supreme good, rather than as one value within a broader ecology of values, they risk becoming an agentic fool.
So, what is “wise agency”?
To modify the above definition of agency, it is:
So, what is “wise agency”?
To modify the above definition of agency, it is:
Taking the right action toward getting the right things done, despite complex (and clear, complicated, chaotic, or... See more
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
In the other direction, I think there are skills and dispositions which increase your agency in general. Practical wisdom, the skill of knowing that to do, is generally agency-increasing because it makes it easier to find paths to act on your preferences, so gets you used to acting in general.
David R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Not Viktor Frankl
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
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