Post 44: What’s Stopping You? — Neel Nanda
On agency - the mindset of being able to look past defaults and constraints, and find ways to take action to achieve your goals. Examining what’s holding you back, understanding what agency feels like, and concrete advice on how to cultivate it.
Post 44: What’s Stopping You? Oct 19 Written By Neel Nanda (Note 21/10: Significant edits made. Thanks to Duncan Sabien and the LessWrong Feedback Service for valuable feedback!) Introduction This post is about the concept of agency , which I define as ‘doing what is needed to achieve your goals’. As stated, this sounds pretty trivial - who wouldn’t do things to achieve their goals? But true agency is surprisingly hard and rare. Our lives are full of constraints, and defaults that we blindly follow, going past this to find a better way of achieving our goals is hard. And this is a massive trag
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