on agency & what it gives us
Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.
Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource Is Agency
Meanwhile, the majority of “normals” (to borrow a term from the sci-fi film Gattaca) are expected to take orders, complete tasks, stand in line, clock in and out . . . punctually, obediently, subserviently. No dancing in the halls, and certainly no daydreaming about a world put together differently.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Chat” evokes what search engines and databases cannot: a sense of personal involvement. It implicates one’s selfhood, which helps cultivate certain behaviors
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
A regulated woman pauses and gets curious. She stops absorbing what does not belong to her. That pivot is often misread as disengagement, even though it represents the return of agency.
Substack • The Workplace Runs on Dysregulated Women
How do we encourage those around us to be active dreamers without coming off as people with their heads in the clouds? The phrase “dream a little” can be so hard to even imagine as people who have been so conditioned to not push past the corners of their own imaginations.
studioananda.space • Dreaming Into Action With Annika Hansteen-Izora
“Active Hope is about becoming active participants in bringing about what we hope for. Active Hope is a practice. It points us toward a way of life that enriches rather than depletes our world.”
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
When you apply possibility thinkingin your daily life, it can give you a powerful sense of agency. It can help you find innovative solutions to actually do what you want to do, in one form or another.
Constance de Saint Laurent • How to use ‘possibility thinking’ | Psyche Guides
On the other hand, I am a believer in radical hope, by which I mean recognising that the chances of success may be slim but still being driven to act by the values and vision you are rooted in. Time and again, humankind has risen up collectively, often against the odds, to tackle shared problems and overcome crises.
The challenge we face as a
... See moreThe narrative out there right now is revolution - taking back power, reclaiming control and forcing accountability. And maybe that happens. But I also know that revolution requires collective action at scale, and what I'm seeing in peoples’ behaviors and everyday choices is a very different kind of revolution.
People are leaving. The natural
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