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

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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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… Timestamps: (00:00) What Is High Agency? (12:25) Examples Of High Agency (19:29) High Agency People (24:50) The Education System Of Today (32:51) The Spectrum Of High Agency (40:37) Most High Agency Person In History (49:16) What Is The Opposite Of High Agency? (56:10) What Are Rumination Traps? (01:06:09) The Impact Of Specificity (01:14:12) Dangers Of Cynicism (01:18:03) Beliefs And Values High Agency People Focus On (01:24:25) The Key To Being Well-Liked (01:31:34) Strategies For High Agency Living (01:39:25) How To Overcome The Fear Of Rejection (01:46:27) The High Agency Story Of The Patels (01:49:28) Why George Is Passionate About High Agency (01:55:44) Where To Find George Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Read George's essay at www.highagency.com Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a long time coming, I think. Agency since we've been talking is the topic, the thing that we've both been obsessed with the most. So introduce people to it. What's high agency?
0:12.2	High agency is, in my opinion, the most under-discussed and most important idea in, let's say, the 21st century. It's one of those ideas that once you see it,
0:22.5	you can't quite unsee it. It's everywhere. But the problem with it is it's quite hard to define.
0:29.9	And there's that Justice Potter-Stewart line of around when he was trying to define pornography,
0:35.7	when he's asked in a government inquiry, can you define pornography?
0:38.3	And he came back with the ultimate reply of,
0:40.7	well, I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
0:43.7	So in lieu of the episode today,
0:45.6	I know you rent out all these beautiful studios.
0:47.7	I wanted to be the first guest ever to bring some props.
0:51.0	You brought props.
0:51.2	To kind of get people to experience high agency,
0:53.7	and then we can define it with words.
0:55.2	All right, cool.
0:56.0	First off is high agency in a meme.
1:00.7	Okay.
1:01.0	So as you can see here, you have person A and person B.
1:05.9	And essentially for the people that are listening, you have two people trapped on a desert island,
1:11.2	identical people, but with two different fundamental frames of reality. One is using the wood
1:16.8	to get help. The other is using the wood to kind of escape the island. And you kind of see this
1:22.4	idea that two people with exact same fundamental realities, but a completely different, like, low agency
1:28.2	here, high agency here. So you see high agency in a meme there. Then, and this one was
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