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
Sometimes you will exhibit reflexive agency - agency as an automatic response to the situation you’re in. You have a preference, you have the ability to satisfy it, so you do that. What could be more natural?
David R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
you can just do things
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing
"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!
Workshops & Talks by:
@gptbrooke, @sashachapin, @nosilverv, @kaseyklimes, @leahprime,... See more
Christopher Smederx.comthread
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
Musings on agency part 2:
Find your feedback loops (gradients) that feel like eating chocolate ice cream.
But also find your feedback loops that also feel like doing an insanely hot sweat lodge with a group of good friends that have your back.
Christopher Smederx.comthread
