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Aki
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
there’s no character trait more essential to individual and societal progress than agency. Agency is the embodied conviction that you have the power to create meaningful change in your life and transform your vision into reality. It’s the engine that powers human progress.
Cissy Hu • Grappling with the big questions
But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the self nor of the other, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of t
... See more“ People think resilience and success come from getting to ‘knowing’ as soon as possible. They’re wrong. Resilience and success come from the length of time you can tolerate being in the Learning Space. What I think is very empowering to know, is that the Learning Space [the space between ‘not knowing’ and ‘knowing’] has one feeling associated with... See more
Carina • Be where you are
“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”