Awesome media for Personal Agency

It turns out that helplessness is the natural state for humans. What we need to learn is agency. Learn to take action. To reach your goals. This is a collection of media that helps inspire you to take more action.

How to Contribute

1. Send a PR with media that creates agency.
2. I will review it!

Table of contents

1. Books
2. Movies
3. Articles
4. Short posts
5. Poetry
6. Quotes

Media

Books

• The Count of Monte Christo (Dumas)
• The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
• Oh the Places You’ll Go! (Dr Seuss)
• The Ascent of Man (Jacob Bronowksi)
• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) — get the Hays translation!
• The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch) — author is active on X

Movies

• Lawrance of Arabia

Short Posts

• HIGH AGENCY Once you SEE it - you can never UNSEE it. (George Mack)
• [High Agency: what is it, why it is important, and how to cultivate it (Shreyas Doshi)][https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-agency-its-importance-how-cultivate-shreyas-doshi/]

Articles (and blogposts)

• Agency means just doing things (jesperbylund.com)
• Practices that improve your personal agency (jesperbylund.com)

Poetry

• "If" (Rudyard Kipling)

Quotes

• “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” (Leonardo Da Vinci)