Basically, to understand someone, complete the following sentence from their point of view correctly, then take it from there: “I exercise control over my own life by ________.”
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Note that their belief need not be correct. It might be laughably incorrect.
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This is very interesting. Can you recommend any longer form thoughts on the topic? Or if none exist, maybe please write a full essay on it? I’d be an avid reader.
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Key premise of a book project I’m trying to get off the ground
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Have you considered that you might be biased in that you cluster with people for whom agency matters greatly? Because it ain't all of us.
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I’m specifically not thinking of that group but people who on paper lack agency and adopt a low-agency posture. Their realities are functions of their actual agency (often unconscious). Eg, a study that showed “powerless” housewives controlled husbands through what they cooked.
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Makes me think of the enneagram model - different neuroses that people fixate on to answer the existential question
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Very fascinating. What I immediately think about is - what about victimhood? Of course there's a centrality of the self and a cloaked sense of agency there - but agency is denied? Also makes me think of the viable systems model. Identity rules agency here, I'd say.
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this is a very good tweet and totally in line with attachments in Buddhist psychology
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