🔗 Agency IS a Virtue, Actually, Dr. Gena Gorlin

The hardest part of “just doing things” is having things you want to do. Figuring out what you want, and integrating your wants so that they amplify rather than inhibit one another, is essential to the kind of decisive action we associate with High Agency. But having clarity on what you want is not something that just happens to you, at least not for long; it is something you need to build and maintain using your agency. And this includes actively and honestly reflecting on your ideas of what is right and good, lest these ideas end up guilting and inhibiting you more than they guide and inspire you.