Join 📚 Siddish's Favorites
A batch of the best highlights from what Siddish's read, .
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'/>
Tweets From George Mack
@george__mack on Twitter
• If you're considering waiting in line for 20 minutes to get something free, ask yourself whether you'd be willing to pay INR833.33 for that thing. If not, you probably shouldn't wait.
Your money/time value suggests that it may be worth it for you to delegate some tasks to paid help from time to time, so that you have more free time at your disposal.
clearerthinking.org
5. Sayre’s Law: In a dispute, the level of emotions are inversely related to what’s at stake. That’s why unimportant events can inspire such passionate arguments. In parts of academia, they say: “The battles are so fierce because the problems are so trivial.”
21 Ideas From 2021:...
@david_perell on Twitter
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise