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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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18. Selective Laziness:
We're critical of other's arguments but not our own. Trouche et al (2016) found that showing people their own claims disguised as another's led them to reject the claims.
To know what you really think about your beliefs, imagine they're someone else's.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
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Pygmalion Effect
High expectations lead to high performance (and vice versa).
Those who have high expectations placed on them are more likely to internalize these expectations and improve their performance accordingly.
Leaders may attempt to use this to their advantage.
Cognitive Biases Are Sys...
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