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People build their realities around a single axiomatic design principle: “I must maximally validate my sense of my own agency.” If you can figure out where someone *thinks* their agency is located, you can use behavioral observations to model their subjective reality correctly
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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.