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
You are the machine that fuels everything else in your life.
Paying attention to the mindset that drives that machine, is simply one of the most important things you can do.
Every move, every decision, every action will rest on that. Be sure it is as optimal as it can be.
Dr. Julie Gurnertwitter.comPick curiosity, not acceptance.
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you can be high agency without being highly ambitious. That might describe somebody who is highly agentic in shaping the kind of personal, emotional, or spiritual life they want, but who is not especially motivated to succeed financially or professionally.
Can You Just Do Things?—Asterisk
In short, if one presents high agency as the supreme good, rather than as one value within a broader ecology of values, they risk becoming an agentic fool.
So, what is “wise agency”?
To modify the above definition of agency, it is:
So, what is “wise agency”?
To modify the above definition of agency, it is:
Taking the right action toward getting the right things done, despite complex (and clear, complicated, chaotic, or... See more
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.
On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for... See more
On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for... See more
Leandra Medine Cohen • Notes from the running path
Leandra on anti-flatness
But there is tremendous power in defining ideals, even if they ultimately remain out of reach. Considering all that is at stake, we have to at least try.
exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
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