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How to Be More Agentic

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To succeed as a startup founder is, in many ways, to be a high agency person—someone who finds a way to get what they want done, who bends reality to their will, no matter the circumstances. Cate Hall is a former professional poker player, lawyer, and medical startup cofounder (among other accomplishments) who was able to do all of these things because of her own high agency. The good news: She believes that anyone can learn how to exert more control over their lives. Read her tips to learn how to be the master of your own fate. —Kate Lee As a result, I’ve done a bunch of cool stuff in different domains: I was a Supreme Court advocate and the number-one female poker player in the world; I’ve started art and perfume companies; and most recently, I led operations at Alvea, a pandemic medicine company I co-founded that set the record for the fastest startup to take a drug to clinical trials. I did all of these things in my thirties. In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding r

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