Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic

Abstract

Edit in September 2022: I wrote a response to this post here, in which I lay out some concerns, some unexpected costs of taking “agentic” actions for me (and mistakes I’ve made), and things I’ve changed my mind on since writing this post.  . Nearly all of the best things that have happened to me in the last year have been a result of actively seeking and asking for those things. I have slowly been developing the skill of agency. By ‘agency’ I mean the ability to get what you want across different contexts – the general skill of coming up with ambitious goals   and actually achieving them, whatever they are. In my experience, I’ve found this is learnable.