#919 - George Mack - How To Take Control Of Your Own Destiny

Podcast Notes Playlist: Business

Modern Wisdom

Key Takeaways

• Everything is an agency issue; all problems are solvable with enough knowledge
• All the progress that the human species has made is due to agency; from the air conditioned rooms we sit in, to the clothes we wear, to the cars we drive – everything is agency
• The four ingredients for high agency: clear thinking, resourcefulness, bias to action, disagreeability
• Avoid the Rumination Trap, which is a mental loop where overthinking disguise itself as problem-solving but actually leads to inaction, anxiety, and wasted energy
• If you want to be high agency, you must be intentional and decisive; mid-wits try to appear smarter than they actually are by overcomplicating things
• General ambition gives you anxiety; specific ambition gives you direction
• Fundamentally, there is no “way” apart from the the one that works; focus on outputs instead of inputs
• There may be a range of outcomes in which you have the capacity to achieve, but within that range, everything is exclusively on you
• Inverse Charisma: The people who are most well-liked are the people who make other people feel the most interesting
• There is no memory of normal; the only thing we remember about someone is their weird eccentricities – much of life consists of getting back to our childlike curiosities
• “High agency is the most under-discussed and most important idea in the 21st century.” – George Mack

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