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
Questions for taking agency
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
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
in order to develop agency, one needs to be psychologically ready to embrace it (i.e., change their worldview) once they spontaneously discover it. For instance, abandoning a victim mentality and being open to taking risks.
sundus • agency: it's only human
When you're agencymaxxing, others become more interested in helping
you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a
multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if
they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping
themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference
and they don't like... See more
you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a
multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if
they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping
themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference
and they don't like... See more
You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
Frequent lamenting about how bad things are (in politics or relationships or other culture gripes) is mostly a way for people to avoid responsibility for what they can change. If you constantly repeat that everything is bad, it lets your ego off the hook for doing nothing.
Simon Sarrisx.comEverything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms?