Saved by Stuart Evans
agency: it's only human
Feeling like a cog in a machine suggests a lack of freedom to create your own areas of competence.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
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.
Grappling with the big questions
We do not have to accept that our lives have been propelled by indeterminate forces beyond our control. We can choose to become agents of our own destiny.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant. These don’t always surface in awareness to the point one is actually choosing -- often they live in a cloud of aversion that strategically obscures the tradeoff.