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
@leahprime
exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
phoebe and
As the old institutions continue to crumble, the most independent minds and high-agency private networks will continue to fill the vacuum.
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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
Musings on agency part 2:
Find your feedback loops (gradients) that feel like eating chocolate ice cream.
But also find your feedback loops that also feel like doing an insanely hot sweat lodge with a group of good friends that have your back.
Christopher Smederx.comthread
“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing
What would your life look like if you actually had no agency around each problem you are currently facing. Describe the details of a zero agency life.