Love this article from Cate Hall on how to be more agentic

1. Court rejection - ask for things that feel unreasonable. If you're only asking for things you can get, you're not aiming high enough

2. Seek real feedback - give people a way to provide it anonymously

3. Increase your surface area for luck - "the more confident I am that a conversation is relevant, the less likely I am to discover something exciting during it. Nearly all of my most fruitful collaborations over the last 3 years have come out of meetings I booked almost at random"

4. Assume everything is learnable - figure out the best way to do it

5. Learn to love the moat of low status: "making changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, requires you to cross a moat of low status, a period of time where you are actually bad at the thing or fail to know things that are obvious to other people"

6. Don’t work too hard - burnout is the ultimate agency-killer

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic

Great article(s). Reposting to the TL. h/t @linda

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