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Good article! I am in a phase of life where I'd prefer to be less "agentic", and more of a mindless automaton, always doing the tasks I set out to do myself in
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Good article! I am in a phase of life where I'd prefer to be less "agentic", and more of a mindless automaton, always doing the tasks I set out to do myself in a day.
What stands between me and most of my current goals is nothing but investments of time - hundreds, thousands of hours of time. There is no money component, and I cannot significantly accelerate my progress on any of them using money either. My agency isn't going to go anywhere, in fact it reasserts itself annoyingly often with flights of fancy and going back to focusing purely on making money. But I do wish I could tell it to shut up and just let me focus on the grind more often.
- SeanAnderson 3y agoCare to share what you're working towards?
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoLanguage learning, endurance biking, weight loss, and meditation at this point. (EDIT: some physical wound healing too, forgot about that) Quitting alcohol was also a very similar battle after a decade of increasingly severe abuse of it. I had my last drink 467 days ago, and for the first 6 months or so basically the only things I had the mental fortitude to juggle were "don't lose my job" and "don't succumb to the bottle". Much easier said than done to willingly remove the one coping mechanism you could rely on all throughout NEETdom to graduating from a top university with honors, but I did it, thank goodness.
- kiba 3y agoDoing what you want to do is my very definition of being agenty. Some of the most difficult thing in the world required long duration effort.