Agency
Ideas around agency, aka the sense of control that you feel in your life + your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior
by unoptimal and · updated 20d ago
Agency
andrea added 10mo ago
Supritha S added 1y ago
I think often what’s going on with prompted agency is that it gives you permission to act, and many people aren’t good at acting without permission.
from Learning to exercise agency by David R. MacIver
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
from On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays by Bennett Gilbert
Mary Martin added 2mo ago
- The lowest level of choice is not making a conscious choice at all, which happens when you don’t notice that you even could make a choice. In this case there is effectively no space between stimulus and response, so you just act out your habitual behavior unconsciously. If you ever find yourself skimming the news or looking in the fridge without ha... See more
from How to Make Unfixated Choices by Michael Ashcroft
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.
sari added 2y ago
rob hardy added 5mo ago
- A victim mentality is, in my opinion, one of the biggest threats to cultivating a sense of agency. Perpetual victimhood cannot coexist with agency.
from agency: it's only human by sundus
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
In the other direction, I think there are skills and dispositions which increase your agency in general. Practical wisdom, the skill of knowing that to do, is generally agency-increasing because it makes it easier to find paths to act on your preferences, so gets you used to acting in general.
from Learning to exercise agency by David R. MacIver
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion. Keep showing up.
Supritha S added 1y ago
