Determining High or Low Agency

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This chapter explores how to determine if your friends and the people you hang out with are high or low agency. It discusses observing their ability to bend the environment, the concept of energy transferance, and the impact of childhood experiences.

George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur.

If our mind is an operating system, ideas are the apps we install to give us a greater understanding of the world. George is one of my favourite thinkers and today we get to go through 16 of the best ideas we've both discovered since the last time we spoke over 3 years ago.

Expect to learn whether optimism is actually a scam, why it's so sexy to be cynical, why high agency people are the best ones to have in your life, what is the most interesting question of all time, the difference between treadmill friends and sofa friends, why most people die at 25 but aren't buried until they're 75, how to stop worrying about everyone else's opinions and much more...

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