Consider the challenges of your job, your career or even you life. What do they have in common, psychologically? In each case, success requires high-functioning human agency.
In the psychological sense, agency entails a category of beliefs, a mindset. More profoundly, genuine agency includes the strategies and actions that accomplish what we want and bring us what we need.
Feeling that you have agency is nice. But feeling agentic falls far short of exercising agency—thinking and behaving competently and making real progress toward your desired goals.
To exercise agency is to acquire significantĀ control over yourĀ life’s various arenas, including school, work, sports, physical health, and psychological wellbeing.Ā
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