Agency, as I see it, is an amalgamation of two skills, or mental dispositions: autonomy and efficacy.
Agency requires the capacity to formulate autonomous goals in life—the capacity to dig inside and figure out what wants to happen through you, no matter how strange or wrong it seems to others. In other words, it requires autonomy (which was what I... See more
everything is achievable, you just need to spend the time and most importantly take the first step to find out how, no matter how small of a step
agency is acting with the belief that one can attain something by committing to it. Agency is a Stoic value, as it encourages one to focus on what is under their control—taking action, self-belief, and commitment—unlike success, which requires something outside of one’s control, mainly recognition from others.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation