Agency
Ideas around agency, aka the sense of control that you feel in your life + your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior
unoptimal and
Agency
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
The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.
David Perellx.comYou gotta be understanding who you are and where you're at in life
right now. You absolutely have to be figuring out how you can
increase your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behaviors
as well as your faith in your ability to handle a wide range of
tasks and situations.
Agencymaxxing happens through
doing things. You
can think all you want and... See more
right now. You absolutely have to be figuring out how you can
increase your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behaviors
as well as your faith in your ability to handle a wide range of
tasks and situations.
Agencymaxxing happens through
doing things. You
can think all you want and... See more
You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
The opposite to reflexive agency is prompted agency - agency which only becomes available given some prompt to action. “That does seem like a problem. Have you tried solving it?” is my only-half-joking prompt I use with people: It’s something that highlights the failure of agency, in a way that makes people aware that action is an option available
... See moreDavid R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
You will never be fully ready and there will never be a perfect time. It’s genuinely not about waiting for the right time to do something when you’re ready, it’s about doing things before you’re ready just to make them exist. Those quotes that say “make it exist first, you can make it good later” are very true.