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In a high leverage role, it’s easy to find 100s of low cost tasks, but it’s hard to discern things that create massive value, and equally hard to overcome the inertia to take those things on.
Thinking in terms of Opportunity Cost forces us to exercise more judgment & discipline.
When in a High Leverage...
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Do this:
1. Account for tailwinds when assessing a candidate's past impact
2. Probe the candidate & references for the leader's singular impact ("tell me why this wouldn't have been achieved w/o you at the helm")
3. Turn yourself into a person who doesn't get swayed by charisma
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How to spot high agency people:
**1. Weird teenage hobbies** - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
**2. Energy distortion field** - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. Low agency people do the opposite.
**3. Golden question** - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That's the highest agency person you know.
**4. You can never guess their opinions** - The boxer that writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.
**5. Immigrant mentality **- If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign.
It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new location.
**6. They send you niche content** - Low agency people look at the social engagement of content before deeming its quality. High agency people just look at the content. They spot upcoming trends very early.
**7. Mean to your face but nice behind your back** - The social incentives are to be nice to people's faces and gossip behind their backs. To do the opposite requires agency because they're swimming against the social tide.<img src='https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_SRh5xXoAA43vS.png'/>
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