Would you describe yourself as high agency?

Yes, in some areas of my life, and no, not at all in others.

I don't know if I'm high agency, but I caught myself the other day almost telling my

five-year-old he needed to be more agentic, and I really had to check myself and think about

whether that was the kind of parenting I wanted to do.

Five could be early to introduce the idea. I think even if you really believe in the idea of agency,

you're pretty low agency at five. Yeah, I think that's fair. In case you haven't heard,

being a quote-unquote high-agency person is becoming

kind of a thing. Sophie, Max, in like a sentence, what does being high agency mean? Like,

what are the traits of a high-agency person? I think it implies decisiveness, self-assuredness, a willingness to take risks, and basically just like being in the

driver's seat of your own life rather than like letting life happen to you. I associate it with the

common on Twitter phrase, you can just do things. The idea to me always about high agency is like

you're not waiting for permission.

You're not sitting around nervous, worrying about the things that might happen if you do it.

I'm not sure how much I buy into the framework, but this is the framework.

Yes, yes. I mean, for people who aren't familiar with the idea of being high agency,

Max is absolutely right.

You may still have seen some of this trickle down into posts that say things like,

you can just do things or when you remember you have free will.

That's like all over social media.

But I will say, I actually am all for this ethos in my own life.

I thought I'd be happier living in New York.

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