Valeria Marin
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Valeria Marin
"When you're told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind? How to get around whoever it is that's just told you that you can't do something" - Eric Weinstein on high agency.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Problem 1: They lived in the wrong location to fly
Through reverse-engineering, they calculated the need for winds of 15 miles per hour and sand hills for a soft landing, which they couldn’t find in Ohio. Again — This is pre-internet. They couldn’t just use Google Maps to find this location.
Solution: Contacted the Weather Bureau for the data... See more
Problem 1: They lived in the wrong location to fly
Through reverse-engineering, they calculated the need for winds of 15 miles per hour and sand hills for a soft landing, which they couldn’t find in Ohio. Again — This is pre-internet. They couldn’t just use Google Maps to find this location.
Solution: Contacted the Weather Bureau for the data... See more
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Having interest over solving a question, being curious, researching and trying to create is exercising agency at the highest level. Going down rabbit holes, trying to understand concepts and focus on problems deemed “unsolvable” is to happen to life.
Low agency is being stuck for years on a problem without realising it could’ve been solved by one hour of searching YouTube.
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
" Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over” - Jeff Bezos
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Stress can be reframed as an opportunity to think about a problem, act on a situation we’ve been ignoring.