Agency 🧠

Strive for Your Actions to Have a Single Tenor

Write to Escape Your Default Setting

Write to Pool Your Shifting Selves

Write for Exposure (But Not That Kind)

Write to Improve Your Career

Life Evaporates When Taken Too Seriously

The Struggle Alone Is Enough to Fill Your Heart

Speak to Yourself in Full Sentences

Station Your Canaries (Leading Indicators and System Interrupts)

Grow Inherently, Not Apparently

Do the Right Things Quietly

Work Swells to Fill the Time Allotted for It (Parkinson’s Law)

Fire and Advance

Be Irrationally Patient (Delayed Gratification)

Recite the Serenity Prayer Often

Increase Your Optionality

Rules Clobber Goals

Your Actions Become Your Inner Monologue Becomes Your Identity

Move Toward What Makes You Flinch

Sleep, Diet, and Exercise are Your Body’s Flywheel

Iron Never Lies

It’s Good to Quiver Under the Bar

Pursue It With Vigor (Enthusiasm)

Stamina is a Quiet Advantage

Pay In and Be Grateful to Do So (Grit)

You’re So Quickly Forgotten

Bankrupt Your Soul by Being a People Pleaser

No Opinion Needed

Your Life Follows Your Attention

Walk the Shoreline of Your Ignorance

Seek Unwelcome Truths to Widen Your Base of Understanding

Never Be a Victim

Fear and Loneliness Cause People to Act in Self-Contradictory Ways

Excessive Criticism is a Sign of Internal Conflict (Projecting)

Your Unfair Advantage (Modesty)

Leave the Bucket

Start at Zero