shaping the ideas that shape us /native /believein 🇵🇸

Your point about the compounding is interesting in particular because it suggests that agency could be something that, if lost, becomes increasingly hard an beyond some point perhaps impractical to regain. Scary thought.

In Islam there is this idea that sin causes a “disease of the heart.” The more sin you commit, the more you dirty and harm your heart. You stray further from God. 

Piety and worship cleanses the heart, but the longer you ignore the issue the harder it becomes to fix. 

I believe agency is similar, which is why it’s so critical to cultivate it in children.