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
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scene-making > sensemaking
amidst interesting comment thread
I think often what’s going on with prompted agency is that it gives you permission to act, and many people aren’t good at acting without permission.
- Strangest Loop (Source)
Another example of this sort of thing that I am constantly frustrated with is something that I experience as other people being very lacking in curiosity, but from the inside is probably more a lack of reflexive agency over their understanding of the world: It seems like people just stay confused about things that matter to them, and I find this
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