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
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
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.”
― James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
Very simply put: don’t let action be the only thing separating you from those that are building the life you dream of. If you can take a small step today, do it. I promise it could be the one little tiny thing that kicks off a domino effect leading to great things later on.
Erifili Gounari • literally just do things
First, be clear about your intentions. For myself, I want to maximize learning and improving myself, and minimize “zombie entertainment”. This is when we’re caught in a pattern of consuming from a firehose feed for entertainment, without intentionality. It’s a fake flow state: time passes quickly and the world fades away, but there’s no cognitive... See more
Andrew Conner • Making the Internet Work for You: YouTube
exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
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