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How to spot high agency people - by George Mack

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1. The golden question - Who do you call when stuck in a 3rd world prison cell? That’s the highest agency person you know. 2. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult. 3. Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. 4. You can never guess their opinion - The boxer who writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency. 5. Immigrant mentality - If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign. It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new locat

How to spot high agency people You know it when you see it. George Mack Sep 05, 2025 311 21 38 Share Here’s my updated list of how to spot high agency people: 1. The golden question - Who do you call when stuck in a 3rd world prison cell? That’s the highest agency person you know. 2. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult. 3. Treadmill energy - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill

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