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
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix đ ⢠carry yourself lightly
A popular narrative now casts all living entities as âmachinesâ built by genes, as Richard Dawkins called them. For Mayr, biology was unique among the sciences precisely because its objects of study possessed a program that encoded apparent purpose, design and agency into what they do. On this view, agency doesnât actually manifest in the moment of... See more
Philip Ball ⢠Life With Purpose
The simple individualistic humanist frame treats the person as the seat of agency, the atomic unit of moral responsibility and choice-making.
I want you to see the limits of this model. Agency exists at micro- and macro-scales, the âpersonâ is just one step on the ladder.
I want you to see the limits of this model. Agency exists at micro- and macro-scales, the âpersonâ is just one step on the ladder.
Tweets From Richard D. Bartlett ¡ @RichDecibels ⢠Tweet
Agency is a value, not a virtue . As noted in âThe Most Boring Valueâ 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, âcrushingâ... See more
