After 7 months of writing, I finished my essay!. I think agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century.

Ignore modern critics: Numbered lists are Lindy. Nietzsche wrote numbered lists. Schopenhauer wrote numbered lists. Marcus Aurelius wrote numbered lists. The Bible had ten commandments. It's a high-signal way to communicate ideas while respecting your readers' time.

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Behaviour punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood:. Rejecting normality.

This came from my new essay. 11 behaviours punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood. Let me know which one is your favourite. The best things will be kept for V2 of highagency.

Behaviours punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood:. 1. Questioning the highest status person in the room.2. Copying people.3. Hardcore nerdiness.4. Touching reality

"Your high agency story helped me find my real father" . This is the best message I've ever received about an essay. Truly mindblowing behaviour.

I'm hiring an idea officer. You'll be my research and writing sparring partner for the next version of highagency․com. If this is you, please apply:. • You're the Laird Hamilton of surfing the internet for hidden ideas.• Have read "Day You Became a better writer" by Scott.

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New word: Blue brain. It's blue balls, but for ideas. To be used when you're full of new ideas but haven't seen your smart friends in ages. "Can't wait to see Derek. I've got blue brain and want to unload all over him".

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One worldview is that there are high and low agency people. Ironically, this is a low agency worldview. A more useful worldview: Everybody has a low and high agency voice in their head. One voice may scream louder than the other. Another voice may have been silent for years. But.

The midwit meme works for emotional intelligence. Top 5% process emotions and resolve them. Bottom 5% can't notice emotions, so there's nothing to resolve. The midwit gets stuck on emotional bottlenecks that ruin their life, only to explode in mid life crises and funerals.

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The 4th day of a holiday is magical. Weekends never access it. Your brain is recharged and detached from mimetic thinking. The thoughts you can access exist in another universe entirely. I'd rather work 21 days straight and 4 days off than 5 days on and 2 days off.

Information diet hack: Open ChatGPT. Prompt: "Build me a script for YouTube so I can only see videos over 30 minutes long". This will oneshot 95% of brainrot from your YouTube diet. Brain has a weird time watching cortisol slop over 30 minutes long. Try it. Ya welcome.

Reminder: Your mind is malleable. If Quang Duc could set himself on fire to protest the war and not flinch for 5 minutes as his body incinerated into a crisp -- I don’t it’s impossible to go from top 20% of neuroticism to the bottom 20%.

What's the most woo-woo hippy idea do you think is probably true?. Here's mine: Language shapes reality WAY more than most think. Swapping the word "problem" for "puzzle" moves me from anxiety to curiosity. Problem activates my amygdala and puzzle activates my prefrontal cortex.

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This was one of the few thoughts that popped into my head efoiling at 25km/h first thing in the morning.

Before you check your phone in the morning: Lick a toad or eat a frog. Toads are activities that delete your sense of self: Meditation, surfing, MMA. Frogs are the biggest bottleneck in your life. No scrolling or news until you’ve put something that croaks in your mouth.

Dating advice to my younger self: When I was younger, I’d go on first dates like a dynamic Instagram ad. I'd update my personality based off what I thought she liked. I was aiming for a 100% conversion rate of getting them to like me. Inevitably I'd fail, and assume I didn't.

A critique I've heard of high agency is main character syndrome. Thinking you're the main character of everyone else's life is narcissistic. But being the main character of your own life isn't. Being an extra in your own life is the common denominator of regrets of the dying.