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#919 - George Mack - How To Take Control Of Your Own Destiny

2025/3/24
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This chapter explores the concept of high agency, contrasting it with low agency through various examples like memes, videos, and a thought experiment involving a prison scenario. It emphasizes the difference between 'happening to life' versus 'life happening to you' as a core principle of high agency.
  • High agency is the most important idea in the 21st century.
  • High-agency people are those who make things happen in their lives, rather than having things happen to them.
  • The high agency question: If you were trapped in a South American prison, who would you call?

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George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur.

If you found yourself trapped in a South American prison, who's the first person you'd call? The person you named is likely the highest-agency individual in your life. So, what exactly makes high-agency people so valuable, and what essential skills can you learn from them to apply to your own life?

Expect to learn what high agency is and what makes people with high agency so special, who the apex example of a high agency person is, the one question you should ask yourself to find the person with the most high agency in your life, the 4 key skills of a high agency person, the core techniques of some one who is high agency and much more…

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