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
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
Anxiety can also significantly impair agency - it’s much harder to act when you’re worried that everything is going to go terribly, horribly, wrong, if you do, so anxiety in a specific area will often reduce your agency in that area (e.g. anxiety about your technical skills will make you less willing to try things at work, social anxiety will make
... See moreDavid R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
Isn’t it wild how much power our words have?
How easily they can cast spells on people, how they have ripple effects in all directions?
And yet how often we shy away from using them, even when all they would do is bring more beauty into the world?
So what are you waiting for?
How easily they can cast spells on people, how they have ripple effects in all directions?
And yet how often we shy away from using them, even when all they would do is bring more beauty into the world?
So what are you waiting for?
Vidhika Bansal • Say nice things to people's faces 💛
Musings on agency:
Everyone has command of one self, if one is okay doing what is pleasurable to them in the moment.
The effort to eat a pint of chocolate ice cream is enjoyed.
The effort to do tedious task XYZ is not.
Christopher Smederx.comthread
we now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises. Unfortunately, no such thing currently exists, but there’s increasing optimism that a theory of agency can be found – and, moreover, that it’s not necessarily unique to living... See more