If there’s just one thing you read from this, make sure its **www.highagency.com.** I endorse Cate Hall’s view on high agency:

Agency itself is not necessarily a good thing. It becomes a good thing as a toolkit, developed by people who are also high in conscientiousness, who want good things for the world, and who might otherwise be constrained by narrow perspectives on what counts as socially acceptable action.

Books

  1. 📱 Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
  2. ⏰  Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  3. 🧪 The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
  4. 🌄 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
  5. 😌 Second half (on happiness, lifestyle, etc.) in the Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  6. 🫂 A Little More Social by Nicholas Epley

Articles/Posts Part 1

  1. 💭 Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves
  2. 🎯 Oliver Burkeman on rejecting productivity hacks to regain
  3. ♟️ Life is Poker, not Chess
  4. 🎓 10 Things I Wish I Knew as a Lost College Student
  5. 2️⃣ 10 Things I Wish I Knew in College Part 2
  6. 💼 Your career does not need to have a purpose🌍 No matter your job, here are 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a social impact
  7. 🚪 Reversible and Irreversible Decisions (Doors analogy)
  8. 📒 Scandalous Rules for a Beautiful Life

Articles/Posts Part 2

  1. ⚖️ There’s no such thing as working too hard. There’s just being under rested
  2. Part 3: Escaping low agency traps
  3. 🫂 When friends ask me for advice, my new default is this
  4. 🎮 17 thoughts on turning life into a fun video game
  5. 🦉 Wisdom in a sentence
  6. 🏃‍♂️ What's the opposite of a hedonic treadmill?
  7. 📜 High agency aphorisms
  8. George Mack on procrastination
  9. 💬 Changing your vocabulary changes how you perceive reality
  10. 🥊 How to defeat your amygdala: 8 principles for killing fear
  11. 🤔 Red pill I've swallowed recently: Thinking Cost
  12. 🎯 Goal Setting: The Midwit Meme Guide